When I think of Christmas, I think of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. I never imagined presiding over a Little Women Christmas scene as Marmee anyway. Neither was her life filled with the “sweet home peace” that is the chorus of Little Women. It is self-deprecating and compassionate and in some ways more interesting than Little Women. And yet it is not so easy to banish the Little Women fantasy version of Christmas.

Source: The Irish Times December 21, 2025 09:01 UTC