Fox Nation's 'Washington Irving: The Father of Halloween and Christmas' explores the iconic author's contributions to the celebrations of both holidays in America today.

Within a decade of the publication of Irving’s Sketch Book, however, “New Yorkers were greeting each other with Christmas wishes, and Broadway stores extended their hours to accommodate shoppers,” ...

In 1797, Washington Irving, a roguish lad of fifteen, ... Mr. Murray entered upon the publication of the “Sketch-Book” in 1820, Mr. Irving being at that time thirtyseven years of age.

Today’s short story is Washington Irving’s “The Spectre Bridegroom,” a tale from Irving’s quasi-pseudonymous The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Crayon was the first U.S. Marine ...

The year 2019 marked the bicentennial of the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., which was serialized between 1819 and 1820.“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was published as part of ...

By his nephew, PIERRE M. IRVING. 4 Vols., 12 mo. PUTNAM, 1863. The public had a right to expect something from the announcement of The Life and Letters of Washington Irving; nor has it been ...

Writing in the early 1800s, Washington Irving was one of America’s first writers to achieve truly mass appeal, ... as Irving did in his The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 5.

BRADLEY: You know, Irving really had a lot of very youthful success. This story was an immediate hit, as was the entire collection in which it was featured, which was called "The Sketch Book Of ...

Washington Irving. Share full article. Jan. 5, 1860. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from January 5, 1860, Page 3 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

Many of Irving’s letters, especially in the second volume, are long and elaborate productions, which read like chapters from a book of travels, or like essays, and yet do not on that account ...