Want to really impress family and friends this Christmas? Why not try busting out these fun literary Christmas facts. Just remember not to be looking at the screen whilst you do! Christmas is a great time of the year for trivia, and that literary touch helps give you the ideal fact to break out, especially if there’s an awkward silence or two as the family gathers together.
Origins Of A Word
The earliest recorded usage of the exact phrase “Christmas-card” as recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary comes in an 1883 piece by of all people, an art critic! John Ruskin, (Who also invented the term ‘pathetic fallacy, if you really want to impress” appears in his piece Fors Clavigera.
Origins Of An Icon
While William Shakespeare can lay claim to a fair few firsts, it’s his peer Ben Johnson who has the honor of the being the first writer to depict that great icon, Father Christmas. He appears in Johnson’s Christmas, His Masque, which was first performed in 1616 for an audience held in the court of King James I.
Never Befriend A Writer
Or do, if you want to be inundated with curious gift suggestions. Always known to be somewhat of an eccentric bunch, you could count on a writer to be exacting, and a little bit odd. As famed author William Faulkner shows, known for producing some of the most innovative and brilliant literary works of his time, the only Christmas gifts he would accept were pipe cleaners!
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