A Victorian Christmas
Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Collins, Eliot & the Birth of a Tradition
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Christmas - as we picture it now - was shaped in the 19th century.
This TritonLit edition gathers some of the era’s most influential Christmas writings: Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Collins, Eliot, plus festive illustrations from Punch magazine and seasonal essays from Household Words. Each piece appears with clear TritonLit commentary explaining not only what’s happening, but why it mattered — and how these tales rewired Britain’s sense of Christmas, reshaping the holiday that millions still celebrate today.
From Dickens’s warmth and moral fire; to Gaskell’s quiet domestic realism; to Collins’s supernatural unease; to Eliot’s emotional depth - this is both a festive collection and a cultural time machine. A Christmas anthology that actually explains how Christmas became Christmas.
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