Tag: Victorian Christmas Articles, Crafts, Poetry and Tales
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Arthur’s Home Magazine, 1868 The long, cold evenings of winter, and the time for merry in-door sports, has come again. The young people can no longer have the croquet out of doors, the little ones can no longer frolic on the pavement or lawn. About this time there begin to be very mysterious looks, and [...]
Christmas with the Fairies
T. F. Thiselton Dyer for The Girl’s Own Paper 1882 From all accounts Christmas seems to have been, from time immemorial, an important season with the elfin race, and many curious accounts of the festive merry doings of these fabled people in years gone by have been handed down to us. According to one popular [...]
How to Trim Christmas Trees
This Victorian era article was originally published in The Cottage Hearth, December 1876 The popular custom of preparing Christmas trees for the delight and amusement of young and old, increases yearly; and the question, “How shall I trim one?” is often asked. In the Country Gentlemen, “Daisy Eyebright” tells how to do this. I shall [...]
