page_title: Mary Charlotte Ward Granniss Webster Billings
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Charlotte Ward Granniss Webster Billings / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: English: The Wonderful Christmas Tree!: A Story in RhymeBy Mary C. Webster
context_page_description: Mary Charlotte Ward Granniss Webster Billings was an American writer, activist, hymn writer, evangelist and missionary. She was Texas' first ordained woman Universalist minister.
  Billings, an ordained minister in the Universalist Church, did missionary work in Texas, and associated with her husband, of the same congregation, who was superintendent of its missions in the State. Though Billings largely gave her life to clerical work, she displayed great activity in other fields. She wrote two books, one a work of fiction, entitled Emma Clermert, and the other a holiday publication, known as The Wonderful Christmas Tree. Both were well received and were flatteringly commended by the press. While abroad, she wrote "Thitherside Sketches," which were serially published in Ladies' Repository, a Boston monthly, running through two years of that publication. Billings was also a prolific writer for northern journals and periodicals, denominational and secular. These productions were both in prose and verse, and from each, certain works were compiled in book form for literary readers.
context_section_description: As Mrs. M. C. Granniss
  Emma Clermont; or, Life's changes. A tale., 1850
  Order of exercises at the dedication of the new Universalist Church, Hartford, Conn., November 1, 1860. , 1860
  As Mary C. Webster
  The Wonderful Christmas Tree!: A Story in Rhyme
caption: The Wonderful Christmas Tree
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