Moore is shown in a replica portrait originally painted by Daniel Huntington. "The best evidence favouring Livingston is hard to explain away," he wrote in an email to CBC News. It's a tough charge, but Van Duesen has some academic ammunition to back up her claim. Just last year, MacDonald Jackson, English professor emeritus at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, published his book Who Wrote The Night Before Christmas? Analyzing the Clement Clarke Moore vs. "To me, it's just righting a wrong," she said. "I feel there's something fundamentally wrong with people stealing other people's work." 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, but according to lore, This beloved poem was not written by Clement Clarke Moore.Īt least that's the opinion of Mary Van Deusen, who claims her great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Henry Livingston Jr., a poet and farmer from a Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is the true author of the iconic holiday verse.įor years, Van Deusen has been doing her best to try to convince the public that her unheralded ancestor deserves credit for the legendary prose. Note: This article was originally published in 2017
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