"May Your Days be Merry and Bright": Christmas Stories by WomenThese short stories, written over the last 120 years by leading American women writers, reflect all of the varied emotions of Christmas, and through their literary craft enrich the many meanings of the Christmas holidays. |
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We understood that there were to be brown velvet butterflies stitched down the skirt , and if her Lady Wash- ington geranium flowered in time , -Mis ' Sykes was said to lay bread and milk nightly about the roots to encourage it ...
We understood that there were to be brown velvet butterflies stitched down the skirt , and if her Lady Wash- ington geranium flowered in time , -Mis ' Sykes was said to lay bread and milk nightly about the roots to encourage it ...
Pagina 141
I wanna big grizzly , Jimmie ; a great big brown grizzly bear with a grin . I wanna big brown grizzly . " " Ain't you got one , Doll ? A little white one with a pink bow . Here , let's give him a drink ! " But the petulance grew upon ...
I wanna big grizzly , Jimmie ; a great big brown grizzly bear with a grin . I wanna big brown grizzly . " " Ain't you got one , Doll ? A little white one with a pink bow . Here , let's give him a drink ! " But the petulance grew upon ...
Pagina 142
I wanna bear , Jimmie , a great big brown- ' " Waiter ! " 99 " A great big brown one , Jimmie , with a grin . Tell him a great big brown one ! " 99 " Waiter , that ain't no kind of a souvenir to bring a lady — a cheap bunch o ' wool ...
I wanna bear , Jimmie , a great big brown- ' " Waiter ! " 99 " A great big brown one , Jimmie , with a grin . Tell him a great big brown one ! " 99 " Waiter , that ain't no kind of a souvenir to bring a lady — a cheap bunch o ' wool ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Louisa May Alcott A March Christmas | 16 |
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Old Mother Goose | 34 |
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"May Your Days be Merry and Bright" and Other Christmas Stories by Women Susan Koppelman Fragmentweergave - 1988 |
"May Your Days be Merry and Bright": Christmas Stories by Women Susan Koppelman Fragmentweergave - 1991 |
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