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from TheConversation— How Mrs. Claus embodied 19th-century debates about women’s rights
Clement Clarke Moore’s 1823 poem … redefined Christmas in America… [transforming religious associations] into a familial celebration … [Then] Nineteenth-century writers, journalists and artists were quick to fill in details about Santa that Moore’s poem left out: a toy workshop, a home at the North Pole and a naughty-or-nice list. They also decided that Santa Claus wasn’t a bachelor; he was married to Mrs. Claus.
Yet scholars tend to overlook the evolution of Santa Claus’ spouse. You’ll see brief references to a handful of late-19th-century Mrs. Claus poems– especially Katharine Lee Bates’ 1888 “Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride.”
But as I discovered when I began work on a class about Christmas in literature, the writers who created Mrs. Claus were not just interested in filling in the blanks of Santa’s personal life. The poems and stories about Mrs. Claus that appeared in newspapers and popular periodicals spoke to women’s central role in the Christmas holiday. The character also provided a canvas to explore contemporary debates about gender and politics…..
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h/t gmoke: Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
by Rebecca Hall, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2021 ISBN 978-1-9821-1518-0
...A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington Post...
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the “powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record...