So competitive was the new trade that, as Tara Moore writes in Victorian Christmas in Print, even Alfred, Lord Tennyson was given 1,000 guineas to write a Christmas card poem. Moore adds that ...

1880 card by Helen Cordelia Angell, probably published by Marcus Ward (click to enlarge) “The main publishers of Christmas cards ... sought to transform the Victorian home into a haven of ...

“There were very few nativity scenes or depictions of ... “In the manufacture of Victorian Christmas cards,” wrote George Buday in his 1968 book, The History of the Christmas Card ...

Some kinds of Christmas card images were as popular in Victorian times as they are today—in addition to that initial happy family, there was also a fair share of cards displaying classic ...

The first Christmas card was designed in 1843. It was a simple illustration with a seasonal greeting. The first cards were expensive, but by the late Victorian period Christmas cards became more ...

But Christmas cards back in Victorian times were very different. There are no cards featuring Father Christmas, reindeer, snowmen, baubles or sleighs. Instead they depict lucky horseshoes ...

(Manchester Metropolitan University Library/Public domain) Seen in this light, images of mortality on Victorian Christmas cards may have been intended to move the recipient to charity or to remind ...

The black-and-white greeting card shows a Victorian family eating and drinking and is inscribed with the message “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You.” “It’s a documented fact ...