Printed versions of the card were made available for sale, but most of the Victorian population could not afford the high price. Other printers were inspired to produce affordable Christmas cards.

By the 1880s the sending of cards had become hugely popular ... While Charles Dickens did not invent the Victorian Christmas, his book A Christmas Carol is credited with helping to popularise ...

Christmas cards and crackers are also Victorian inventions which the royals evangelized. In 1843, Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, printed 100 festive cards fe ...

2. Victorian Christmas cards were the stuff of nightmares Christmas cards were invented by Henry Cole in 1843, and by the end of the century everyone was sending them. But the festive ...

The use of these cheaper cards began to spread in the 1850s and had established itself as a holiday tradition by the final decades of the century. A Victorian invention? While the Christmas card may ...