family togetherness, and feasts. Overall, the rise and eventual success of the Christmas card in Victorian Britain show how nostalgia inspired creativity and innovation.

By the 1880s the sending of cards had become hugely ... and were to be shared by the whole family. While Charles Dickens did not invent the Victorian Christmas, his book A Christmas Carol is ...

Although some outdated traditional etiquette rules advise against sending a Christmas card to a mourning family the first ... mourning guidelines during the Victorian era. Today, the rules are ...

The company still exists today, and supplies crackers for the royal family each Christmas. 2. Victorian Christmas cards were the stuff of nightmares Christmas cards were invented by Henry Cole in ...

The card features a family framed by trestles adorned with holly and ... The development, and ultimate triumph, of the Christmas card in Victorian Britain demonstrates how nostalgia was channeled into ...