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Emily Mayer Higgins
Best remembered for a warm, old-fashioned holiday book filled with stories and parlor games, this 19th-century American writer captured the pleasures of family gatherings and fireside fun.
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Holidays at the Grange; or, A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
by Emily Mayer Higgins
About the author
Emily Mayer Higgins was an American author associated with Philadelphia, and she is best known for Holidays at the Grange; or, A Week's Delight: Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside. Contemporary catalog and ebook records confirm that this is the work most closely tied to her name.
Her writing has a strongly domestic, family-centered feel, blending fiction with amusements meant for shared reading and holiday entertainment. The book was first issued in 1859 and later appeared in an 1886 Philadelphia edition, which suggests that it continued to find readers well after its original publication.
Available memorial records identify her as Emily Mayer Higgins, born in Pennsylvania on September 19, 1817, and deceased in Philadelphia on June 28, 1901. Reliable biographical detail beyond those basics is limited in the sources I could confirm, so her surviving reputation today rests mainly on the enduring charm of her holiday storytelling.