Description Many Christmas traditions and images of \'old fashioned\' holidays are based on Victorian celebrations.
Non-fiction.
Packed with information and rich with detail from period authors, Maria Grace transports the reader to a longed-for old fashioned Christmas.
Take a step into history with Maria Grace as she explores the traditions, celebrations, games and foods that made up Christmastide in Jane Austen\'s era.
Holiday events, including balls, parties, dinners, and even weddings celebrations, started a week before Advent and extended all the way through to Twelfth Night in January.
Festivities focused on adults, with children largely consigned to the nursery.
Festivities centered on socializing instead of gift-giving.
How odd? Families rarely decorated Christmas trees.
Going back just a little further, to the beginning of the 19th century, the holiday Jane Austen knew would have looked distinctly odd to modern sensibilities.
Description Many Christmas traditions and images of \'old fashioned\' holidays are based on Victorian celebrations
