Christmas celebrations in nineteenth-century Britain (original) (raw)

Celebrating Christmas in well-to-do families

• The Royal Family at Christmas 1848
• Christmas at Home (1843 Illustrated London News)
• The Upper-middle-class Family's Christmas Dinner in America (Harper's, 1860)
• Butcher's Shop — Prize Meat at Christmas
• Bringing in Christmas
• The Christmas Tree (Harper's, 1860)
• Hanging Christmas stockings (Harper's, 1860)
• Eliza Cook's “An English Christmas Home!”
• Fetching Home the Christmas Dinner (John Leech)
• The Christmas Goose (Phiz)
• The Christmas Holly Cart

Christmas among the poor

• Two Scenes of Urban "Refuges" — A Sign of the Hungry Forties: "Are There No Prisons, Are There No Workhouses?"
• Refuge for the Destitute — Ward for Females
• Refuge for the Destitute — The Male Ward
• Poor Man's Christmas (Harper's, 1860)

Santa Claus and Father Christmas

• Alfred Crowquill's Old Christmas
• Saint Claus (Harper's, 1860)

Christmas outside the home

• Christmas Pantomime
• Christmas skating in the park (Harper's, 1860)
• The Waits; or, Making the Most of It (street musicians)

The Literature of Christmas

• Dickens "the man who invented Christmas"
• Fathering Christmas: Charles Dickens and the (Re)Birth of Christmas
• Chapter 28 of Pickwick Papers: “A Good-himoured Christmas Chapter” (coming soon)

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Last modified 17 August 2015