author
Consolation Club
A mysterious byline attached to a single charming Christmas book, this name has an old-fashioned glow all its own. The surviving record suggests a playful, possibly collective authorial identity rather than a well-documented individual career.
1 Audiobook
The Misfit Christmas Puddings
by Consolation Club
About the author
Very little confirmed biographical information appears to survive for The Consolation Club. Reliable catalog and ebook records do show that the name is attached to The Misfit Christmas Puddings, a humorous holiday work first published in 1906, with illustrations by Wallace Goldsmith.
Because standard literary references and major public sources do not seem to provide a fuller personal history, it is safest to treat The Consolation Club as a scarcely documented author name, and possibly a group or club pseudonym rather than a clearly identified individual. What can be said with confidence is that the work has remained findable through public-domain and library listings, which has helped preserve this small, curious corner of early twentieth-century Christmas fiction.
For listeners, that air of mystery is part of the appeal: the name feels like a fragment from another era, attached to a festive story that has outlived most of the details around its creator.