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The Golden Christmas: A Chronicle of St. John's, Berkeley

Antebellum Period | Novella | Walker, Richards & Co. | 1852

Published by Walker & Richards in 1852, The Golden Christmas is novella of social manners set in the lowcountry of Berkeley County near Charleston, South Carolina. Geography is of central importance to both the book itself and the story within. Charleston, as the home of the author, the setting of the story, and the location of the publisher and printer is as much the focus of the work as any characters or details of plot; in a 2005 introduction to the novella, critic David Aiken claims that The Golden Christmas “today provides one of the most comprehensive and accurate ...