Greeting Card (Fifties ?)

"As the much-loved novels of Charles Dickens demonstrate, while many English families of the mid-nineteenth century lived in leisured comfort, seeking agreeable pastimes to fill their time, the poorer people lived in appalling conditions. . .
"[Queen Victoria] tried to encourage her subjects with her own example of a happy family gathered around a fir tree hung with pretty decorations:  a day when people everywhere stop to greet one another in peace and harmony, exchanging cards and presents to demonstrate friendship and love."

"In Dickens' A Christmas Carol, even the miserly Scrooge was forced to recognize the joy of Christmas."
~ VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS, Valerie Janitch, Brockhampton Press, 1995

~ Charles Dickens (Feb.1812 - June1870)  English writer, social critic.
~ Victoria (May 1819 - January 1901)  British Queen from June 1837 until her death.