literary book gifts – Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs..

Happy Holidays my friends! I love love love browsing online, making lists, saving collections, and I am always on the lookout for literary gifts – for others and for myself! People are so creative and artistic, and I love finding just that one quirky or artsy or special piece for the ones I care about. I apologize if this list gets long; I had a very difficult time editing down, I just loved everything I had in my collection! I had thought it would be fun to organize into different literary movements throughout history then I started narrowing it down too much and it was out of hand. So I picked a few favorites!

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Mary Shelley || Lucy Maude Montgomery || Edgar Allan Poe

So, in this category I had to include L.M. Montgomery to lighten up her fellow more Gothic Romantics, although she wasn’t quite in that movement. Just some light among the darkness, and I love the juxtaposition.

Jack London || Jane Austen || Mark Twain

I have to admit, it gave me a kick to include Jane Austen with these two guys, but she is definitely a trailblazer and could more than hold her own with them. I actually had to look up where she fit in regard to literary periods, because it’s been a long time since college and she seemed sort of on the cusp to me. And I was right – she sort of straddled the time frame and writing of both the romantic period and realism. For this gift guide though, we won’t debate too hard, and we will put her here.

And isn’t that ornament adorable!!

Ernest Hemingway || F. Scott Fitzgerald Old Sport Sweatshirt || F. Scott Fitzgerald Gatsby Bracelet || Virginia Woolf (front and back shown)

I have a solid love for the Lost Generation in my heart. I am head over heels for Fitzgerald and that whole era of writers; it just feels so raw and real (and fun) and I would have loved to pop in and visit and have a drink with them in a cafe somewhere in Paris. Update: So before I could even post this, the Virginia Woolf cup sold out. I am leaving it on here though in case you want to save it in Etsy or check out the rest of the pieces this potter makes. And I am adding a Walt Whitman Version in the next section!

T.S. Eliot Print || Emily Dickinson Sweatshirt || Robert Frost Mug || Walt Whitman

I love poetry and I know they each have their own eras and places in literature, but I am giving them their own space, because they are poets and I feel like they would want that. These are quotes from three of my favorite poems – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot, Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson, and Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost. I also have to giggle at the thought of them being reproduced like this – what do you think these poets would have thought of it? I mean, I am planning on purchasing that Eliot print for my kitchen to hang over our coffee area, which I am sure he would have hated. But, I do have an actual love of that poem and can recite it by heart so there is that as well. And then of course Walt Whitman, that great American poet.

I was a little flexible and loose with the categories and literature periods and writers, so I hope you forgive me! I also hope you enjoyed this list as much as I enjoyed making it!