The Story of Holly & Ivy

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The Holly and the Ivy (Roud Folksong Index S178225)". The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library . Retrieved 5 December 2020. we find Holly who's involved in school projects. Daniel is her dad and he hates musicals. Her mother had died when she was very young and she's not to bring it up to her father. It is about an orphan girl who longs for a small toy to chase away the emptiness that occasionally wells up within her and searches for a family that will take her during the lovely season of Christmas. By now you would have guessed the story and the possible ending. There is no prize for guessing that. But the presentation is just lovely. It is a story for children between 5 and 8. From that perspective it is a superbly written story. It will make for a lovely bed time reading to small girls in the season of Christmas. Solomon, Charles (20 December 1991). "TV REVIEW: A Doll, a Girl--and Ronald". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 14 July 2014. A Visit from St. Nicholas" (also known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", 1823) attributed to Clement Clarke Moore

Holly and ivy figure in the lyrics of the " Sans Day Carol". The music was first published by Cecil Sharp. [23] Sir Henry Walford Davies wrote a popular choral arrangement that is often performed at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols and by choirs around the world. Henry VIII wrote a love song Green Groweth the Holly which alludes to holly and ivy resisting winter blasts and not changing their green hue So I am and ever hath been Unto my lady true. a b Review of Rivington, Sertum Ecclesiae, the Church's Flowers, from The Theologian and Ecclesiastic vol. vii, January to June 1849, pp. 198–200This carol appears to have nearly escaped the notice of collectors, as it has been reprinted by one alone, who states his copy to have been taken from "an old broadside, printed a century and a half since," i.e. about 1710. It is still retained on the broadsides printed at Birmingham.

The Holly & the Ivy. Xmas Carol. Mrs. M. A. Clayton at Chipping Campden. Jan 13th 1909" (manuscript facsimile)

Warren, Nathan Boughton (1868). The holidays: Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide: their social festivities, customs, and carols. Cambridge, MA: Hurd and Houghton. pp.182–183.

The words of the carol occur in three broadsides published in Birmingham in the early 19th century. [2] [3] [4] Story alternates between the two and how they cope with their situations. Ivy blames the pilot. She was still on the payroll and had John's money so she drank her life away. She buys everything on line so she won't have to socialize with anybody. Four dolls / Rumer Godden; illustrated by Pauline Baynes." Catalogue record. British Library. Retrieved 17 December 2022. Bramley, Henry Ramsden; Stainer, John (c. 1871). Christmas Carols New and Old. London: Novello, Ewer and Co.

Gross, Claire E. (Nov–Dec 2006). "The Story of Holly and Ivy (review)". Horn Book Magazine. 82 (6): 691 . Retrieved 14 July 2014. The complete words of the carol are found in a book review dating from 1849, in which the reviewer suggested using the text of "The Holly and the Ivy" in place of one of the readings found in the book under discussion. [6] The anonymous reviewer introduced the lyrics of carol thus: As such, holly and ivy have been a mainstay of British Advent and Christmas decorations for Church use since at least the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when they were mentioned regularly in churchwardens’ accounts (Roud 2004). [22] Old English Carols set to music: traditional and original. London: Alexander Shapcott. c. 1875. pp. 7–8.