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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whilst early British Christmas cards usually featured winter scenes and religious themes such as the Nativity, a significant number of later Victorian Christmas were morbid, eccentric and ...

“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 ...

The BBC published an article about Victorian Christmas cards yesterday, tracing their history from the strange to the downright disturbing. In some, children languish in boiling teapots.

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 ...

“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 ...