Louisa May Alcott 
A New Way to Spend Christmas 

A New Way to Spend Christmas describes a Christmas visit to Randall’s Island in the East River, where orphaned and sick children are looked after. A charitable woman brings gifts and spreads ‘sunshine in that shady place’ to the unfortunate children who live there.

Circa l’autore

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was a prolific American author known for her novel, Little Women, and its sequels, Little Men and Jo’s Boys. She received instruction from several famous authors, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and she is commonly considered to be the foremost female novelist of the Gilded Age.