<Tr> <Th> Also known as </Th> <Td> Midwinter Christmas, Christmas in Winter </Td> </Tr> <P> Christmas in July is a Christmas celebration held in the month of July, the nature of which differs by hemisphere . </P> <P> Werther, an 1892 opera with libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet, and Georges Hartmann, had an English translation published in 1894 by Elizabeth Beall Ginty . In the story, a group of children rehearses a Christmas song in July, to which a character responds: "When you sing Christmas in July, you rush the season ." It is a translation of the French: "vous chantez Noël en juillet...c'est s'y prendre à l'avance ." This opera is based on Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther . Christmas features in the book, but July does not . </P> <P> The earliest known occasion to make the phrase Christmas in July literal was in July 1933 at Keystone Camp, a girl's summer camp in North Carolina, which celebrated with a Christmas tree, gifts, and a visit by Santa Claus . In 1935, the National Recreation Association's journal Recreation described what a Christmas in July was like at a girl's camp, writing that "all mystery and wonder surround this annual event ." </P>

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