By the 1880s the sending of cards had become hugely popular ... While Charles Dickens did not invent the Victorian Christmas, his book A Christmas Carol is credited with helping to popularise ...

The use of these cheaper cards began to spread in the 1850s and had established itself as a holiday tradition by the final decades of the century. A Victorian invention? While the Christmas card may ...

Christmas cards and crackers are also Victorian inventions which the royals evangelized. In 1843, Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, printed 100 festive cards fe ...

and the Christmas card was created. For authentic Victorian decorating ideas, we reached out to Körner’s Folly, a historic Victorian-era home in Kernersville, North Carolina. Built in 1880 by ...

But most people don’t know that Christmas cards are a relatively new custom in the grand scheme of things, only dating back to the mid-Victorian era. Plus, despite their majority-female consumer ...

2. Victorian Christmas cards were the stuff of nightmares Christmas cards were invented by Henry Cole in 1843, and by the end of the century everyone was sending them. But the festive ...