A Christmas Posy is a wonderfully selected collection of beloved children's stories:
"Grandmother Dear's" Old Watch
My Pink Pet
An Honest Little Man
The Six Poor Little Princesses
Basil's Violin
The Missing Bon-bons
Lost Rollo
The Blue Dwarfs

Mary Louisa Molesworth (1839-1921) was an English writer of children's stories best known for books, such as Tell Me a Story, The Cuckoo Clock, and A Christmas Child. She has been called "the Jane Austen of the nursery." Later in career, she took an interest in supernatural fiction.