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• Holidays (Vacations)

• The Long Vacation, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• A Wedding Trip (New York: Cassell Pub. Co., c1891), by Emilia Pardo Bazán, trans. by Mary J. Serrano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Their Wedding Journey, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Their Wedding Journey (1916 edition), by William Dean Howells, illust. by Clifford Carleton (illustrated HTML with commentary at wsu.edu)

• Return to Gone-Away (illustrations omitted; c1961), by Elizabeth Enright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Vacances (in French; 1859), by Sophie Ségur (Gutenberg text)
• Peggy Raymond's Vacation: or, Friendly Terrace Transplanted (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1913), by Harriet L. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Vacation With the Tucker Twins (published as by Nell Speed, who died before the series began; New York: Hurst and Co., c1916), by Emma Speed Sampson, contrib. by Nell Speed, illust. by A. O. Scott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Mile of Freedom (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Helen Train Hilles, illust. by Diana Thorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mark Tidd's Citadel (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1916), by Clarence Budington Kelland, illust. by W. W. Clarke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Two Little Women, by Carolyn Wells, illust. by Edward C. Caswell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Magic by the Lake (author died in 1964; c1957), by Edward Eager (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat: or, The Stormy Cruise of the Red Rover (1913), by Janet Aldridge (Gutenberg text)
• Two Tramps (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1903), by Amy Le Feuvre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1921), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hollowdell Grange, by George Manville Fenn (Gutenberg text)

• Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery (Chicago: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1939), by Joan Clark (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Holiday Facts and Fancies: Full Yet Simple Explanations of the American Holidays (Boston et al.: Educational Pub. Co., c1910), by Clara Janetta Fort Denton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Dog and Duck (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), by Arthur Machen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (new edition, in 3 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1849), by John Brand and Henry Ellis, contrib. by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)

• Festival Plays: One-Act Pieces for New Year's Day, St. Valentine's Day, Easter, All Hallowe'en, Christmas and a Child's Birthday (New York: Duffield and Co., 1913), by Marguerite Merington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs (c1891), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Holiday Selections for Readings and Recitations, Specially Adapted to Christmas, New Year, Valentine's Day, Washington's Birthday, Easter, Arbor Day, Decoration Day, Fourth of July, and Thanksgiving (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., c1920), ed. by Sara Sigourney Rice
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Masque of Days (from the Last Essays of Elia; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1901), by Charles Lamb, illust. by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ethel Morton's Holidays (Cleveland and New York: World Syndicate Pub. Co., c1915), by Mabell S. C. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Holiday Stories for Young People (New York: The Christian Herald, c1896), ed. by Margaret E. Sangster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (HTML at Virginia)
• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• Report on the Expediency of Celebrating in Future the Landing of the Pilgrims, on the Twentyfirst day of December, Instead of the Twentysecond Day of That Month (Boston: Printed by vote of the Society, 1850), by Pilgrim Society (Plymouth, Mass.)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Frontier Holiday: Being a Collection of Writings by Minnesota Pioneers Who Recorded Their Divers Ways of Observing Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's (St. Paul: North Central Pub. Co., 1948), ed. by Glenn Hanson (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Arbor Day Leaves (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1893), by Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• True Christmas Spirit (c1955), by Edward J. Sutfin (HTML at EWTN)
• The Twelve Days of Christmas (c1955), by Elsa Chaney (HTML at EWTN)
• Our Christmas Symbols (Raleigh, NC: Graphic Press, c1953), by Aylene E. Cooke and Cameron Cooke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Christmas: Sun, Saviour and Santa Claus (Atlanta: Oglethorpe University Press, 1941), by Thornwell Jacobs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Christmas Book: Origin of the Christmas Tree, the Mistletoe, the Yule Log and St. Nicholas (Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, 1898), by Carla Wenckebach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas Entertainments (originally published in 1740 as "Round About Our Coal Fire"; reprinted London: Field and Tuer, et al., ca. 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan (London: T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Clement A. Miles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Feast of St. Friend: A Christmas Book (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1911), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Friendship and Happiness (Hodder and Stoughton edition; usually titled "The Feast of St. Friend"), by Arnold Bennett (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Lights of Beacon Hill: A Christmas Message (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922), by Abbie Farwell Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mystical Interpretation of Christmas, by Max Heindel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Myths and Legends of Christmastide (San Francisco: Stanley-Taylor Co., 1901), by Bertha F. Herrick (Gutenberg text)
• Yule-Tide in Many Lands, by Mary Poague Pringle and Clara A. Urann, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Christmas Dispute Revived, in a Letter From Mr. William Smith, of Norwalk, Conncticut, to Elder Elias Lee, of Ballston, State of New-York, Now Published With a Reply by Mr. Lee (Ballston, NY: Printed by W. Child for E. Lee, 1800), by William Smith and Elias Lee (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A Little Book for Christmas (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Cyrus Townsend Brady, illust. by Will Crawford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• St. Nicholas: His Legend and His Rôle in the Christmas Celebration and Other Popular Customs (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by George Harley McKnight
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• St. Paul and Protestantism, With Other Essays (popular edition; London: Smith, Elder, 1892), by Matthew Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• Beacons on the Talmud's Sea: Analyses of Passages From The Talmud And Issues In Halachah, Adapted From The Works of The Lubavitcher Rebbe, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at chabad.org)

• Le Feste di San Giovanni in Firenze: Breve Notizia (in Italian; Florence: A. Ciardi, 1887), by Aurelio Gotti
  • page images in Italy
  • page images at HathiTrust

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