Skip to content
Humanity has long adored the idea of love and romance, and the Victorian period was no exception to this idea–especially when publishing literature for the Christmas gift market. This collection is full of stories that not only encapsulate the traditional sense of love through romantic interest and marriage, but also the love of a parent towards a child, the love of a child to her peers, and the love of a man to his long-lost grandchildren. Through this collection we understand that love has never been simple. Fall in love again with love stories from long ago.
Trollope, Anthony. The Two Generals, A Christmas Story of the War in Kentucky, 1863
Trollope, Anthony. The Two Heroines of Plumplington, 1882
Hugessen, E. H. K. The Forest Fairy: Christmas in Switzerland, 1896
Winter, John Strange. A Christmas Fog, 1900
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. The Birds’ Christmas Carol, 1886
Hardcastle, Mark. “In the Christmas Firelight,” January 1, 1872
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. The Christmas Hirelings, 1894