Links:

    -WIKIPEDIA: Washington Irving
    -REVIEW: of Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory Edited by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg (Eugene L. Meyer, Washington Independent Review of Books)
    Washington Irving's English Christmas: An American essayist penned one of the best descriptions of the 19th-century British Christmas traditions, and in so doing helped restore many of these then-dying customs on both sides of the Atlantic. (James Munson, 12/25/04, British Heritage)
    -ESSAY: Civilizing Sketches: Washington Irving’s antidote to distraction, doomscrolling, and decay (John Byron Kuhner, DECEMBER 28, 2020, Plough)