Related • Quotes by Women • Women's History and the Winter Holidays including Christmas

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In these selections you'll find everything from a vision of a golden-haired, white garbed Virgin Mary, to a humorous lament from a 20th century homemaker, to a 19th century Christmas without presents, to a woman historian's story of the Puritan approach to Christmas (work, work, work!).

• Louisa May Alcott - from Little Women
• Louisa May Alcott - hymn
• Erma Bombeck - on not being a child
• Erma Bombeck - on detrimming the tree
• Saint Bridget of Sweden
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Taylor Caldwell
• Angela Carter
• Willa Cather
• Mary Ellen Chase
• Eliza Cook
• Marcelene Cox
• Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - a version of "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen"
• Grace Noll Crowell
• Margaret Deland
• Emily Dickinson
• Phyllis Diller
• Alice Morse Earle
• Sophia Lyon Fahs
• Theodosia Garrison
• Ada V. Hendricks
• Lenore Hershey
• Marjorie Holmes
• Helen Keller
• Eva Logue
• Phyllis Diller
• Faye Moskowitz
• Helen Steiner Rice
• Christina Rossetti: Love Came Down at Christmas
• Christina Rossetti: Christmas Eve
• Christina Rossetti: In the Bleak Mid-winter
• Augusta E. Rundel
• Ruth Stout
• Sara Teasdale
• Shirley Temple
• Evelyn Underhill
• Katharine Whitehorn
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox