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Winifred Arnold
1874–1923
A writer of warm, character-driven fiction, she published early 20th-century novels including Mis' Bassett's Matrimony Bureau, Little Merry Christmas, and Miss Emeline's Kith and Kin. Her work has a gentle, homespun feel, with small-town humor and a clear affection for everyday people.
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Little Merry Christmas
by Winifred Arnold
About the author
Born in Wyoming, New York, in 1874, Winifred Arnold was an American author whose known books were published in the 1910s. Sources also describe her as having graduated from Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, and as having worked as an editor in Baptist publishing.
Her surviving books suggest the kind of storyteller she was: fond of community life, drawn to domestic and holiday settings, and interested in the comedy and kindness of ordinary relationships. Among the titles linked to her are Mis' Bassett's Matrimony Bureau (1912), Little Merry Christmas (1914), and Miss Emeline's Kith and Kin (1919), all published by Fleming H. Revell.
Because reliable biographical information about Arnold is limited online, much of her life remains hard to trace in detail. She is commonly listed as having lived from 1874 to 1923, and today she is remembered mainly through the fiction that has been preserved in library and public-domain collections.