author
Alice Maude Kellogg
1862–1911
Best known for lively school and holiday programs, this American writer created practical books that helped teachers and families stage celebrations with confidence. She also wrote on home decoration, showing a knack for turning everyday life into something organized, attractive, and enjoyable.
1 Audiobook
Christmas Entertainments
by Alice Maude Kellogg
About the author
Alice Maude Kellogg was an American author born in 1862 and deceased in 1911. Surviving catalog and library records connect her with a long run of practical books for schools and homes, especially works built around recitations, holiday observances, patriotic programs, and other ready-made performances for children.
Among the books most clearly associated with her are Christmas entertainment and Christmas Entertainments, along with other schoolroom program books and Home furnishing, practical and artistic (1905). Taken together, these works suggest a writer who focused less on fiction than on useful, hands-on guidance—helping readers plan celebrations, teach through performance, and shape domestic spaces with both order and charm.
Detailed biographical information about her life appears to be scarce in the sources readily available online, so it is safest to remember her through the books themselves: energetic, practical volumes aimed at making culture, ceremony, and everyday beauty accessible to ordinary readers.