Christmas past : an anthology of seasonal stories from nineteenth-century America /

Table of Contents: “…(1853) / Fanny Fern -- Christmas in Slavery -- Excerpt from Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (1845) / Frederick Douglass -- Excerpt from Twelve years a slave (1853) / Solomon Northup -- Christmas festivities (1863) / Harriet Jacobs -- A hospital Christmas (1864) / Louisa May Alcott -- Excerpt from Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881) / Margaret Sidney -- Christmas realities -- The promise of the dawn: a Christmas story (1863) / Rebecca Harding Davis -- How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar (1873) / Bret Harte -- An English New Year (January 1879) / Henry James -- Christmas every day (1892) / William Dean Howells -- Christmas Jenny (1891) / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Little Miss Sophie (1899) / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Wrestling with the reason for the season -- Excerpt from Ben Hur: a tale of the Christ (1880) / Lew Wallace -- Miracle joyeux (1898) / Frank Norris -- A Christmas sermon (1891) and What I want for Christmas (1897) / Robert G. …”
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