Christmas in Poganuc

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

This Christmas tale set in colonial New England was originally published in the 1895 collection A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others. The short story takes place in a fictionalized version of Litchfield, CT, the town where Stowe grew up, which is also the setting of her novel Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives. This version of "Christmas in Poganuc" was recorded as part of Dreamscape's Classic Christmas Stories: A Collection of Timeless Holiday Tales

Genres: Christmas, Short Stories, Classics, Fiction

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About the author

Great political influence of Uncle Tom's Cabin , novel against slavery of 1852 of Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, American writer, advanced the cause of abolition.

Lyman Beecher fathered Catharine Esther Beecher, Edward Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, another child.

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, an author, attacked the cruelty, and reached millions of persons as a play even in Britain. She made the tangible issues of the 1850s to millions and energized forces in the north. She angered and embittered the south. A commonly quoted statement, apocryphally attributed to Abraham Lincoln, sums up the effect. He met Stowe and then said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!" or so people say.

AKA:
Χάρριετ Μπήτσερ Στόου (Greek)

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Reviews

[Dineh · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this short read. A young girl learning the beautiful sight of Christmas.

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fun picture of old fashioned Christmases.

[James Biser · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great re-telling of the celebration of Christmas by people in early America. It is told about young members of some families. It is a great story.

[Brooksie Fontaine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some people complain that there's no character development, but I disagree. This is very much a miniature coming-of-age story, in which Dolly's mind is opened to something wonderful that she wasn't previously aware of. It's just a coming-of-age story from very early childhood into middle childhood, rather than childhood into young adulthood.

It captures its time well, and a period in which Christmas as we know it was becoming a more common holiday for most people.

[Abigail Stacy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was meh. I was surprised at the lack of depth in this short story. I was expecting something more robustly Christmas. However, reading Stowe again did pique my interest in reading more of her novels-specifically Poganuc People.

[Patty · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very short story. Not my favorite.

[Bice · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very nice short story written by Harriet Beecher Stowe so set in her era. . I had forgotten that some Protestant Churches did not celebrate Christmas.

[Miruna · Rating 2 out of 5]

A cute little story, yet there's not much happening there. No character development, no story line, not even the ending has at least some sort of moral.