Christmas in the Workhouse

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Christmas in the Workhouse

Poet(s)

Thornbury, George Walter

Unsigned

Credits

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Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 3:108, 48, 20 January 1866.

First line

The prickly holly, spotted with red

Authorship

Unsigned

Document status

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Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: George Walter Thornbury, Historical and Legendary Ballads and Songs, Chatto and Windus, 1876, pp. 229-31. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as W. Thornbury, with payment of 10s 6d (NLS 341/310). (AC)

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7316

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Christmas in the Workhouse