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Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2011 by Vic

A Christmas Story, John Everett Millais, Illustrated London News, Dec 20, 1862. (Note the mistletoe)

Christmas is for taking time with family and chats by the fireside, for love and devotion, for celebrating the birth of the Christ child. May all who believe in this holiday have a most special, wonderful day.

Posted in Jane Austen's World | Tagged 19th century christmas, Victorian Christmas | 13 Comments

13 Responses

on December 25, 2011 at 01:15 engchick23

“I sincerely hope your Christmas in [Richmond] may abound in the gaieties which that season generally brings.”

(Pride and Prejudice, chapter 21)

Merry Christmas! :)
on December 25, 2011 at 02:05 Martha Stoddard Holmes

Merry Christmas and thank you for the feast of fascinating information you provide all year! I am looking forward to introducing another class of “Jane Austen: Novels into Film” students to this site in the Spring semester.
on December 25, 2011 at 02:05 Lucia V. Harp

I wish you a merry, merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thank you so much for keeping us inform with Jane Austin world.
on December 25, 2011 at 02:11 Barbara

Wishing each and everyone of you the brightest and love filled Christmas of all.
May your life know the peace of the season today and always.
on December 25, 2011 at 05:53 Margarita

A very Merry Christmas to you too. Thanks for this grate page!
on December 25, 2011 at 05:53 Margarita

Ooops. I meant, thanks for this GREAT page!
on December 25, 2011 at 11:46 gio

Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
on December 25, 2011 at 13:30 Sherry

Merry Christmas!!
on December 25, 2011 at 13:52 dentelline

Happy Christmas Vic!
Thank you for your beautiful illustrations!
Have a wonderful evening!
on December 25, 2011 at 14:28 Sharon

Happy Christmas and Properous New Year. I can not wait to read the 2012 entries.
on December 25, 2011 at 19:50 Bethie

Happy Christmas!! God bless us, every one!
on December 26, 2011 at 15:31 Francesca

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Thank you for this blog and for all that I can learn about Jane Austen and her historical and social period. Now I’m reading your book “Pride and Prejudice an annotated edition”. It’s very interesting, I love it and for an italian reader like me it’s just what I needed.
on December 27, 2011 at 03:11 Robin Colburn

I also got two annotated editions for Christmas. Persuasion, edited by Robert Morrison and Sense and Sensibility, annotated and edited by David M. Shapard. The hardback edition is definitely superior because in the PB, you have to flip to the back of the chapter for the foot notes! Gnashing of teeth!!

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