Tag: Victorian
Tag Description:Cora’s Valentine
By Edyth Kirkwood, as published in Peterson’s Magazine, February 1884 “Ah! there you are at last, Cora. I was just going to send your breakfast up to you. Did you have a pleasant time, at the party, last night?” Cora drew up her chair, stirred her coffee sleepily, repressed a yawn, and replied, slowly: “It [...]
The Broken Hearted
I have seen the infant sinking down, like a stricken flower, to the grave—the strong man fiercely breathing out his soul upon the field of battle—the miserable convict standing upon the scaffold, with a deep curse quivering on his lips—I have viewed death in all his forms of darkness and vengeance with a tearless eye,—but [...]
My Valentine Tree
I’ve transformed my white Christmas tree into a Victorian Valentine tree, with glitter-encrusted copies of antique Victorian Valentine postcards.
Valentine’s Day 2010
I took a little break after Christmas, I hope that you’ve had a splendid holiday and that 2010 has been treating you kindly thus far. I’m in the midst of excavating some of the old Victorian Valentine’s Day content that had been on this site before the “Mid-Web Crisis” of last January. Look for these [...]
Farmer John’s Christmas Box
H. S. Atwater, Aurthur’s Home Magazine, December 1883 It was the afternoon before Christmas Day, and honest John Grahame was packing up his butter tubs and the remnant of his Christmas marketing before returning to his expectant family far off in the quiet country. All the day long the great market-house had been full to [...]
The Christmas Fairy of Strasburg
A German Folk-Tale by J. Stirling Coyne, Adapted by Frances Jenkins Olcott Once, long ago, there lived near the ancient city of Strasburg, on the river Rhine, a young and handsome count, whose name was Otto. As the years flew by he remained unwed, and never so much as cast a glance at the fair [...]
