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Book Synopsis A Victorian Family Christmas by : Carla Kelly
Download or read book A Victorian Family Christmas written by Carla Kelly and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cozy up this Christmas With three heartwarming stories! In A Father for Christmas by Carla Kelly, widow Lissy and her young son give refuge to a handsome stranger for Christmas… In A Kiss Under the Mistletoe by Carol Arens, with her reputation in tatters, Louisa lets out her manor house to captivating Hugh and his motherless little girl… And in The Earl''s Unexpected Gifts by Eva Shepherd, the Earl of Summerhill is shocked at becoming guardian to young twins—but could their governess be his best present yet? From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.
Book Synopsis The Victorian Christmas by : Anna Selby
Download or read book The Victorian Christmas written by Anna Selby and published by Remember When. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Food Through the Ages presents a festive overview of Dickens-era Christmas traditions—from decorations and songs to games and recipes. Anna Selby discusses how the Victorians invented many of the Christmas traditions we enjoy today from Christmas trees and cards to carols and Father Christmas himself. Dickens and Prince Albert shaped how many people view the British Christmas, an idea explored in the opening chapter. There is an emphasis on Victorian food, including authentic wassailing recipes and an easy introduction to planning traditional Christmas foods and traditional decorations. It offers readers a chance to enjoy a traditional Christmas, one centered around the home, family, and simple decorations made from nature, a far cry from the materialistic Christmases we have today. This lovely book reminds us all just how enjoyable Christmas really is and shows us how to recreate our favorite traditions and recapture the magic of Christmas.
Book Synopsis A Victorian Christmas by : Brenda Williams
Download or read book A Victorian Christmas written by Brenda Williams and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the darkest moment of the year, when the nights seem endless and the days very short, comes that most joyful of festivals. Christmas is a truly magical season, bringing families and friends together to share the much-loved customs and traditions that over the centuries have come to surround this heart-warming and deeply symbolic occasion. Each family has their own personal traditions, and ways they celebrate the special day. Yet underneath the tinsel, fairy lights and wrapping paper are many long-standing traditions that we all know and love. Why do we drag a fir tree inside our house and decorate it? How long Santa has been delivering gifts to good children? What would Christmas be like without mince pies? We owe a lot to the Victorians. They transformed the way Britain celebrated Christmas in the 19th century and we continue with their traditions today. In 1848 a British confectioner by the name of Tom Smith came up with the idea of wrapping sweets inside a package that snapped when pulled apart. It was the Victorians that really centred Christmas round the family, with the eating of a Christmas dinner together, giving gifts and playing games. All these things have become central to a British Christmas Day.
Book Synopsis The Victorian Christmas Book by : Antony Miall
Download or read book The Victorian Christmas Book written by Antony Miall and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Christmas in Time by : Sally Nicholls
Download or read book A Christmas in Time written by Sally Nicholls and published by Nosy Crow. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex and Ruby are back in their SECOND time-slip adventure, tumbling back into a Victorian Christmas! From multi-award-winning author Sally Nicholls comes another brilliant action-packed adventure for 7+ readers, beautifully illustrated by Rachael Dean. When Alex and Ruby fall through the mirror in their aunt's house, they find themselves in a different historical period, each time with a different task to perform before they can return to the present. From Edwardian crime capers to Victorian Christmasses, their time-slip stories are always exciting and beautifully told. A Victorian Christmas is lovely - all the food and candles and games and singing - unless you're poor, motherless Edith who is condemned to be sent to a cruel boarding school on Boxing Day. Can Alex and Ruby persuade her strict father that home is where the heart is instead? Full of action and humour and featuring exciting black-and-white illustrations throughout, this is another superb time-slip story which brilliantly brings history to life as part of an adventure. 'A clever vehicle for introducing the differences between then and now in an accessible way, with a fast-paced plot and a lovely spooky ending' - The Times on A Chase in Time Have you read Alex and Ruby's other adventures: A Chase in Time , An Escape in Time and A Secret in Time ? Cover illustration by Isabelle Follath.
Book Synopsis A Wreath of Snow by : Liz Curtis Higgs
Download or read book A Wreath of Snow written by Liz Curtis Higgs and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful story of redemption and restoration that will warm your heart during the Christmas season—or any time of year!” —Francine Rivers, best-selling author of Redeeming Love Wrapped in a cloud of steam, the engine rolled to a stop, the screech of metal against metal filling the frosty air. Snow blew across the railway platform and around Meg’s calfskin walking boots. The weather definitely was not improving. She ordered tea with milk and sugar, eying the currant buns and sweet mincemeat tarts displayed beneath a bell jar. Later, perhaps, when her appetite returned. At the moment her stomach was twisted into a knot. “Anything else for you?” the cashier asked as she handed over the tea, steaming and fragrant. Meg was surprised to find her fingers trembling when she lifted the cup. “All I want is a safe journey home.” “On a day like this?” the round-faced woman exclaimed. “None but the Almighty can promise you that, lass.” “A Wreath of Snow glows with warmth, charm, and grace. A wonderful read.” —BJ HOFF, author of The Riverhaven Years series Christmas Eve 1894 All Margaret Campbell wants for Christmas is a safe journey home. When her plans for a festive holiday with her family in Stirling crumble beneath the weight of her brother’s bitterness, the young schoolteacher wants nothing more than to return to the students she loves and the town house she calls home. Then an unexpected detour places her in the path of Gordon Shaw, a handsome newspaperman from Glasgow, who struggles under a burden of remorse and shame. When the secret of their shared history is revealed, will it leave them tangled in a knot of regret? Or might their past hold the threads that will bind their future together? As warm as a woolen scarf on a cold winter’s eve, A Wreath of Snow is a tender story of love and forgiveness, wrapped in a celebration of all things Scottish, all things Victorian, and, especially, all things Christmas.
Book Synopsis A Victorian Christmas Tea by : Catherine Palmer
Download or read book A Victorian Christmas Tea written by Catherine Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A romance anthology that features four Victorian-era novellas, each set at an elaborate tea party during the Christmas season.
Book Synopsis Dickens' Christmas by : Simon Callow
Download or read book Dickens' Christmas written by Simon Callow and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas fascinated the great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, and to Victorian England, Dickens was Christmas. Following the enormous success in 1843 of A Christmas Carol, Dickens wrote several other Christmas books, sketches, and short stories, and the holiday plays a part in many of his novels. Dickens' public, it seemed, couldn't get enough of his depictions of the season. This beautifully illustrated anthology contains the entire text of A Christmas Carol as well as excerpts from Dickens’ other writings that vividly describe houses decked in greenery and lighted candles, mistletoe in the hall and holly wreaths on the door, and lavish, waistcoat-popping dinners. Authentic recipes for 19th-century treats like plum pudding, mince pies, and gingerbread men allow readers to pop a few buttons of their own. Packed with delightful seasonal illustrations, including many original Dickens illustrations, this lovingly compiled book celebrates the Victorian Christmas in all its warmth and charm.
Book Synopsis Once Upon a Christmas Feast by : Kelly McClymer
Download or read book Once Upon a Christmas Feast written by Kelly McClymer and published by Kelly McClymer Books. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted to attend a Victorian Christmas celebration? Well now you can, in Once Upon a Christmas Feast you not only get an original story, but menus, recipes, favorite Victorian Christmas stories and songs. What's in this jam-packed Victorian Christmas celebration of a tome? First: an original Once Upon a Wedding short story. "Once Upon a Fairytale Christmas." The Duchess of Keystone is an unconventional woman who loves fairytales and happily ever after endings. When it comes to Christmas, she loves nothing better than to have her family gathered at her estate enjoying Christmas joy, food, games, and entertainment. This year, her niece Margause arrives to view the wonder of a fairytale Christmas celebration. At three, Margause loves to slip into the library of the ducal estate, where her parents fell in love, and peruse the books she hopes to read one day soon.Observant and advanced for her age, Margause notices that her aunts and uncles are not as happy as they should be about her Aunt Kate’s upcoming Twelfth Night wedding to a handsome, charming Irish rogue. She also doesn’t understand why her mother’s former governess Katherine tries so hard to cheer up Scroogish Sir Robert. It seems obvious to Margause that Sir Robert would need Mr. Dicken’s three ghosts to make him feel any Christmas joy. But then, what else does the Duchess of Keystone offer everyone, but a chance at a fairytale Christmas, where miracles happen around every corner. Next: An Appendix of traditional Victorian Christmas stories and essays by Charles Dickens...what? You didn't know "A Christmas Carol" wasn't his only Christmas story? Nope. Dickens, along with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, are actually responsible for making Christmas the holiday we celebrate today. You'll also find it handy to have the lyrics to several Christmas favorite songs, so you can make sure to lead your family in rounds of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" without messing up the lyrics. All in all, Once Upon a Christmas Feast is your guide to celebrating a very Victorian Christmas.
Book Synopsis A Holiday By Gaslight by : Mimi Matthews
Download or read book A Holiday By Gaslight written by Mimi Matthews and published by Perfectly Proper Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers will easily fall for Sophie and Ned in their gaslit surroundings." -Library Journal, starred review A Courtship of Convenience Sophie Appersett is quite willing to marry outside of her class to ensure the survival of her family. But the darkly handsome Mr. Edward Sharpe is no run-of-the-mill London merchant. He’s grim and silent. A man of little emotion—or perhaps no emotion at all. After two months of courtship, she’s ready to put an end to things. A Last Chance for Love But severing ties with her taciturn suitor isn’t as straightforward as Sophie envisioned. Her parents are outraged. And then there’s Charles Darwin, Prince Albert, and that dratted gaslight. What’s a girl to do except invite Mr. Sharpe to Appersett House for Christmas and give him one last chance to win her? Only this time there’ll be no false formality. This time they’ll get to know each other for who they really are.
Book Synopsis A Victorian Christmas Quilt by : Catherine Palmer
Download or read book A Victorian Christmas Quilt written by Catherine Palmer and published by Heartquest. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Victorian Christmas Quilt will take you there ... to Christmas in England, where a spunky Texas gal faces an arranged marriage, with only her Lone Star quilt to remind her of her faraway home ... to the mountains of Colorado, where an heirloom Wedding Ring quilt paves the way for the mending of an old rift with a new love ... to a rustic cabin in Washington State, where a Log Cabin Patch quilt symbolizes the new hope awaiting a lonely young woman ... to snowy St. Paul, Minnesota, where a cherished Crosses and Losses quilt opens the door of healing and love for a grieving young couple.
Book Synopsis Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture by : Sheila Whiteley
Download or read book Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture written by Sheila Whiteley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we understand Christmas? What does it mean? This book is a lively introduction to the study of popular culture through one central case study. It explores the cultural, social and historical contexts of Christmas in the UK, USA and Australia, covering such topics as fiction, film, television, art, newspapers and magazines, war, popular music and carols. Chapters explore the ways in which the production of meaning is mediated by the social and cultural activities surrounding Christmas (watching Christmas films, television, listening or engaging with popular music and carols), its relationship to a set of basic values (the idealised construct of the family), social relationships (community), and the ways in which ideological discourses are used and mobilised, not least in times of conflict, terrorism and war.
Book Synopsis Erimentha Parker's to Do List by : Ruby Granger
Download or read book Erimentha Parker's to Do List written by Ruby Granger and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erimentha Parker is a chronic overachiever, bookworm and perfectionist. Starting in Year 7 at Lady Nightingale's School, she is excited for the term ahead. However, when Erimentha she gets on the wrong side of Kimberly, one of the most popular girls in her class, everything starts to go wrong. Constantly picked on by Kimberly and her friends, Erimentha begins to doubt herself but is too embarrassed to ask for help. 'Erimentha Parker's To Do List' follows the story of a young, ambitious girl and her struggle with one of the greatest hardships for schoolchildren: bullying.
Book Synopsis Darcy and Fitzwilliam by : Karen V Wasylowski
Download or read book Darcy and Fitzwilliam written by Karen V Wasylowski and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darcy and Fitzwilliam is the rollicking tale of two cousins, close as brothers, along with their lovers, wives, children and a crazy old aunt. Book One in the series begins immediately after the wedding of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, following the young couple through the ups and downs of learning to live with the person you adore. Add to the mix Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam returning to London after the Battle of Waterloo, eager to shake off the bitterness of war with a little bit of scandalous behavior, only to find the love of his life. "It is absorbing. It is intoxicating. It is excellent." Jane Austen World
Download or read book An Alcott Family Christmas written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas is coming and Louisa May and her family are very excited. The Alcotts are poor and Louisa and her sisters can't buy Marmee and Pa presents. But Louisa, who plans to be a famous writer someday, has written a play that the girls will perform. Afterward the biggest treat of all will be their Christmas dinner, the first big meal they've had in a long time. But when a poor neighbor comes calling for their help, the Alcotts do what they must in the true spirit of Christmas.
Book Synopsis Mrs. Sharp's Traditions by : Sarah Ban Breathnach
Download or read book Mrs. Sharp's Traditions written by Sarah Ban Breathnach and published by . This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here you will meet Mrs. Victorianna Sharp, a noted 19th-century 3literary domestic,2 and the delightful creation of Sarah Ban Breathnach1s imagination. Guides readers month by month through the year, encouraging them to turn away from the stress of modern life and embrace the enduring pleasures of a gentler, more reassuring era. From organizing a New Year1s Day open house to arranging a midsummer strawberry regale to reviving traditional holidays like May Day or Martinmas, Mrs. Sharp is on hand to offer an abundance of joyful simplicities and seasonal suggestions that will enchant and engage everyone. Full of heart and insight, this sourcebook reveals century-old customs and rituals for bringing a family closer together. Full-color illustrations.
Book Synopsis The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or candlelight. Now for the first time thirteen of these tales are collected here, including a wide range of stories from a diverse group of authors, some well-known, others anonymous or forgotten. Readers whose only previous experience with Victorian Christmas ghost stories has been Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" will be surprised and delighted at the astonishing variety of ghostly tales in this volume. "In the sickly light I saw it lying on the bed, with its grim head on the pillow. A man? Or a corpse arisen from its unhallowed grave, and awaiting the demon that animated it?" - John Berwick Harwood, "Horror: A True Tale" "Suddenly I aroused with a start and as ghostly a thrill of horror as ever I remember to have felt in my life. Something--what, I knew not--seemed near, something nameless, but unutterably awful." - Ada Buisson, "The Ghost's Summons" "There was no longer any question what she was, or any thought of her being a living being. Upon a face which wore the fixed features of a corpse were imprinted the traces of the vilest and most hideous passions which had animated her while she lived." - Walter Scott, "The Tapestried Chamber"
