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    The Quiet Little Woman
    The Quiet Little Woman
    The Quiet Little Woman
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    The Quiet Little Woman

    By Louisa May Alcott

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    In "The Quiet Little Woman" a lonely orphan girl named Patty, desires only for a family to love her. When a family finally does come for Patty, she learns it is because they need a servant. But it happens that there is one person who cares about Patty, whose life will soon change forever. Written as a gift to five earnest fans of "Little Women", this Louisa May Alcott Christmas story has become a holiday classic.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateSep 26, 2017
    ISBN9781974916269
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    Louisa May Alcott

    Louisa May Alcott was a 19th-century American novelist best known for her novel, Little Women, as well as its well-loved sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women is renowned as one of the very first classics of children’s literature, and remains a popular masterpiece today.

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      How depressing. Well, I suppose it was the best situation she'd been in yet - but given that her previous situations were unwanted orphan and un-cared-for servant girl, that's not a very high bar to clear. So now she's a slightly-cared-for servant girl...no expectation of ever having her own place, or her own family, she's just an appurtenance to the family. She might even achieve Loyal Family Servant someday - as I said, depressing. And the worst part is how this is celebrated as an achievement, a glorious position for her to have reached...poor girl.

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    The Quiet Little Woman - Louisa May Alcott

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    THE QUIET LITTLE WOMAN

    By

    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

    This edition published by Dreamscape Media LLC, 2018

    www.dreamscapeab.com * info@dreamscapeab.com

    1417 Timberwolf Drive, Holland, OH 43528

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    dreamscape

    About Louisa May Alcott:

    Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

    Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults that focused on spies, revenge, and cross dressers.

    Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today, filmed several times.

    Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She died from a stroke, two days after her father died, in Boston on March 6, 1888.

    Source: Wikipedia

    The Quiet Little Woman

    Patty stood at the window looking thoughtfully down at a group of girls playing in the yard below. All had cropped heads, all wore brown gowns with blue aprons, and all were orphans like herself. Some were pretty and some plain, some rosy and gay, some pale and feeble, but all seemed to be happy and having a good time in spite of many hardships.

    More than once, one

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