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Consolation Club

Known only by the collective-sounding name “The Consolation Club,” this early-1900s author remains something of a literary mystery. The surviving record points mainly to a single festive work, The Misfit Christmas Puddings, a light, sentimental holiday tale first published in 1906.

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The Misfit Christmas Puddings

The Misfit Christmas Puddings

by Consolation Club

About the author

Very little confirmed biographical information appears to survive about the writer published as The Consolation Club. Reliable catalog and public-domain sources consistently connect that name with The Misfit Christmas Puddings, and Project Gutenberg lists it as the only work currently attributed to the author there.

That book was originally published in 1906 and illustrated by Wallace Goldsmith. Its tone is warm, whimsical, and gently comic, centering on Christmas mishaps, family contrasts, and the kind of holiday storytelling that mixes charm with a small moral lesson.

Because so little verifiable personal history is available, the author is best remembered through the work itself rather than through a documented life story. For readers of vintage seasonal fiction, The Consolation Club remains an intriguing name attached to a curious and cheerful Christmas-era classic.