12 Days of CraftLit

Originally released December 18, 2017

Fifth Day of Craftlit (Find all the days here)

Thank you Librivox.org.

Elizabeth Harrison(September 1, 1849 – October 31, 1927)

was an American educator. She was the founder and first president of what is today National Louis University.[1] Harrison was a pioneer in creating professional standards for early childhood teachers and in promoting early childhood education.

How to Celebrate Christmas (p.41) Read by: Heather Ordover

Charles Knight (15 March 1791–9 March 1873)

was an English publisher, editor and author. The son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor, he was apprenticed to his father. On completion of his indentures he took up journalism and had an interest in several newspaper speculations, including the Windsor, Slough and Eton Express.

A Christmas Pudding from Household Words > Volume II > Page 300 December 21, 1850 (to "turn the page", look in the upper right for the 'previous page' 'next page') Read by:

The Recipe from the story: A Pound Christmas Pudding: * One pound raisins

one pound currants
one pound suet (what is it)
one pound bread-crumbs
quarter pound orange-peel
two ounces citron-peel
two ounces lemon-peel
one nutmeg
one teaspoonful powdered ginger
one teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
one wine-glassful brandy
seven eggs
one teaspoonful salt
quarter pound raw sugar
milk enough to liquefy the mass, if the eggs and brandy be not sufficient for this purpose."

Alternate recipes and this with several historic sauce recipes, and a discussion of said puddings

Travel writing

A pudding cloth:

By Malcolm Carruthers, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

Arabs and math - smart responses from readers of The Guardian.

The politics of it in an image (a.k.a., Charles Knight wasn't alone):

By Contributor(s): The Figaro - Copied and digitised from The Figaro, 20 December,1884., Public Domain, Link

Abbie Phillips Walker (1867 - 1951)

And that's pretty much all we've got on her.

Ruth's Christmas (p.13) Read by: Ruth Golding

The old Christmas Carol audio files that can be played on any computer or mp3 player are here: audio, and 190 audio, and 191 audio Read by Glen Halstrom for Librivox

A Christmas Carol*in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas by Charles Dickens Staves 1-2, Stave 3, Staves 4-5

Next Book: Anne of Green Gables January 2018

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Final payment 15th of March

Put it on your gift list - Get for your favorite CraftLit Listener-trip to Scotland

Looking for a particular book? Here are the Start-of-Book episode numbers for you:

Just go to the search bar of the website and look up the number of your chosen book.

Pride & Prejudice 1–20	Turn of the Screw 30–39	A Tale of Two Cities 43–66	Tristan & Isolde 67–73
Frankenstein 74–89	Little Women 90–117	Jekyll & Hyde 119–123	The Scarlet Letter 123–148
Flatland 149–159	Persuasion 160–171	Connecticut Yankee 172–188	The Woman in White 192–220
Dracula 223–246	Gulliver's Travels 249–272	Jane Eyre 273–304	The Age of Innocence 305–330
North & South 331–365	Herland 366–377	Sense & Sensibility 378–401	The Count of Monte Cristo 402–474
Anne of Green Gables 477–500	Treasure Island 501–515	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 516–545	Northanger Abbey 546–561
The Leavenworth Case 562–580	Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc 581–609	The Three Musketeers 610–648	Emma 649–678
Cranford 679–694	Mr Harrison's Confession 695–703	Nancy Drew and The Secret in the Old Clock 704– present

12 Days of CraftLit - Fifth Day