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Victorian Christmas
The Victorians knew how to do everything with a certain charm unparalleled by later times. So too, their Christmas celebrations. :) It was the youth of the Industrial age, and manufacture was moving from the home to the factory; while a few could afford the lavish lifestyle and festivities later celebrated and ridiculed in the media and arts, the poor still had to scrape for their living (just give a glance to any of the works by Charles Dickens, to see the disparity between the classes). However, it was the upperclasses, under the influence of Victoria, who left their mark on the holiday season, shaping it into the flurry of festivities we now model ours upon, year after year. The celebrations of the Victorians are everywhere recounted, none better than in Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
Here, though, is not the fiction, but a few articles to give a good picture of just how this lavish time of year was really celebrated, under the influence, and in the years of, Queen Victoria (1837-1901).
Make your own Victorian Christmas Ornaments
A Victorian Christmas
Christmas celebrations and traditions
Victorian Christmas, and Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol
Victorian Christmas--Christmas is Coming
13 pages describing the traditions of Christmas as celebrated in the Victorian age
Decorating the Christmas Tree
Victorian Christmas Decorations
More Christmas Decorations
Victorian Living: Decorating for a Victorian Christmas
A Victorian Christmas Dinner
The Victorian Web Project
Victorian Resources
These two sites are more general archives of Victorian issues than Christmas, per se, but it's chock full of good information, so we post it here. Enjoy!
More to come, as we find them...
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