The Orphan’s Dream of Christmas

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The Orphan’s Dream of Christmas

Poet(s)

Macintosh, Eliza Anne (née Griffiths)

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Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Household Words 4, 16–17, 20 December 1851.

First line

It was Christmas Eve—and lonely

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Published in a Christmas issue

Notes and attribution research

Poem from the 1851 Christmas Issue of Household Words, entitled, Showing What Christmas Is to Everybody, Now Ready. Announced in advertisement Dec. 20. Contents listed at end of Volume 4 (Lohrli 87-8).

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 1548

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

The Orphan’s Dream of Christmas