A Christmas Child (Annotated)

A Christmas Child is a delicately wrought Victorian tale of childhood, domestic feeling, and moral awakening, shaped around the symbolic richness of Christmas as a season of charity, renewal, and imaginative tenderness. Molesworth's prose is lucid, intimate, and observant, attentive to the textures of nursery life, family affections, and the ethical education of the young. In the tradition of nine...