Victorian Holidays

Victorian Christmas

A Victorian Christmas - click on links for information about decorating, entertaining, Christmas cards and Victorian toys. A good place to start.

A Victorian Christmas: the Old English Christmas - another site with lots of information about how people celebrated Christmas in Victorian England.

Jehs Christmas Page: Victorian Christmas - just about everything on this page is a link. Explore a bit. Find beautiful Victorian Christmas scenes, Christmas customs, etc.

A Victorian Christmas - Describes Christmas traditions originating from Victorian times, such as the first Christmas card.

Victorian Greeting Card Manufacturers - Information about production of the first commercial Christmas card and more.

A Dickens Christmas - traditions and legends, holiday food, gift giving and more.

Dickens and Christmas - discusses Dickens' influence on the way Christmas is celebrated.

Victorian Valentines

Victorian Valentines by Indiana University's Lilly Library - history and styles of Victorian Valentines.

Victorian Valentines by Richard Brenner  - all about 3-D pop-up Valentines, excerpted from the book: "Valentine Treasury: a Century of Valentine Cards"

Saint Valentine's Day - A History of the Card - scroll down a bit for information about Valentine cards during the Victorian era.