Victorian Holidays
Victorian Christmas
Victoriana's 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.
Historic-UK.com's Victorian Christmas - Christmas Celebrations and Traditions - provides a very short history of the gifts, the greeting cards, Santa Claus, the food, etc.
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.
Biblical Quality's 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.