“Now out upon you, Christmas!
Is this the merry time
When the red hearth blazed, the harper sung,
And the bells rung their glorious chime?...”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette, 1832

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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