The Romance of a Christmas Card
1916
First Published
3.85
Average Rating
112
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"My door is on the latch tonight, The hearth fire is aglow. I seem to hear swift passing feet—The Christ Child in the snow." Reba, the minister's new wife, was spirited, vigorous, courageous, and clever. She was also invincibly, incurably happy—so that the minister seemed to grow younger every year. Reba doubled his joys and halved his burdens, tossing them from one of her fine shoulders to the other like feathers. She swept into the quiet village life of Beulah like a salt sea breeze. Now she has a plan—one involving a few small verses she has penned. For there are rebellious youths and some contention in the church that threatens to split it . . .
Avg Rating
3.85
Number of Ratings
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Author
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Author · 21 books
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith (1856-1923) was an American children's author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the "Silver Street Free Kindergarten"). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty (1883), The Birds' Christmas Carol (1886), Polly Oliver's Problem (1893), A Cathedral Courtship (1893), The Village Watchtoer (1896), Marm Lisa (1897) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).
