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 ...

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 ...

Also during the Victorian Era, the introduction of Christmas cards by Sir Henry Cole in 1843, followed by the popularity of crackers invented by Tom Smith in the 1840s, and the revival of carol ...

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 ...