[Gutenberg 56222] • Bertha's Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf

Horatio Alger Jr. (1832 – 1899), began his writing career by publishing in local newspapers. He turned professional in 1849, when a Boston magazine, the Pictorial National Library purchased a poem and two essays. Alger wrote four adult novels, and one adult novella, but he gained notoriety when his friendship with ‘William Taylor Adams’, a boys’ author, changed Horatio’s interest to writing ‘formulaic rags-to-riches’ books for the juvenile market.

‘Bertha’s Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf’, was the first book written and compiled by the author, Horatio Alger Jr. It was published in 1856. Although many of the items within its pages were previously published in newspapers, and magazines of the day, Alger selected these 11 short stories, interspersed with 9 poems, and dedicated the book to his mother, Olive.

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