Christmas in Nineteenth-Century England
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The Victorian family Christmas was not simply invented by Dickens and Prince Albert; Neil Armstrong reveals how a tradition of Christmas nostalgia and sentimentality can be traced back as far as the 17th century. He then considers how the distinctive social developments of the Victorian age - consumerism and philanthropy, the growth of the print trade and women's increasing importance in staging festivities - reshaped the ways in which the season was experienced and represented.