Washington Irving Society

• ARG (Alternative Reality Game) Projects from Tracy Hoffman’s 2025 Washington Irving class will be completed shortly. We’re usability testing this week, but should have everything streamlined by Thursday, December 4. Please check back after that.

• Project #1: Irving and Poe Group/ Irving, Poe, and Burton: An Examination of the Gothic Genre  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2r2Bj8ycofuJIjKj9sJ60eWkIiI1mbD9s1S4Z59l_ZjmEzA/viewform?usp=header
• Project #2: Irving and Christmas Group/ AnIrvingChristmas http://anirvingchristmas-vsbte.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/step-2-anirvingchristmas-alternative-reality-game/
• Project #3: Irving’s Views on Women and Marriage Group/ Dame “The Shrewd” Kelley’s Tour through Washington Irving and Marriage: Instagram Link
• Project #4: Irving and Mary Shelley Group/ Romanticism Rekindled https://docs.google.com/document/d/1crfxSzsNQZhrZ95s95XwYviXFV4eZHpb8cFJbl2ff2w/edit?usp=sharing

• Christmas stories by Washington Irving can be found online at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20656
• “The Haunted House” from Bracebridge Hall, to be read at the American Literature Association round table, Hauntings in American Literature, hosted by the Washington Irving Society. Here’s the link to Project Gutenberg’s Bracebridge Hall. You’ll have to scroll down to the story, which is number five from the bottom of the hyperlinks:  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13515/13515-h/13515-h.htm#link2H_4_0049
• English 4382: Major Authors/Washington Irving. During Fall 2022, Dr. Tracy Hoffman, the president of the Washington Irving Society, taught a class at Baylor University solely about Washington Irving’s writing and legacy. She looks forward to sharing some insights on the website in the near future.
• Gutenberg’s Tales of a Traveller, where you’ll find “The Devil and Tom Walker”: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13514
• Link to the “knickerbocker” entry in the Oxford English Dictionary: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/103994?redirectedFrom=knickerbocker#eid
• Encyclopedia Britannica entry for “Tom Walker”: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Devil-and-Tom-Walker
• Quizlet for “Tom Walker”: https://quizlet.com/203685575/the-devil-and-tom-walker-flash-cards/

And please stay tuned as we hope to provide more teaching resources in the future…