1. Era Holiday Cards Graphic Pictures/Ideas/Site Listing

2. To create your Victorian Holiday card: –Choose a picture and print it on paper –Choose a quote from A Christmas Carol or David Perdue’s website for the message inside –Trim your your card & decorate it in the Victorian style to turn in –Put your logo on the back of the card (name period and date)

3. Resources Holiday cards became popular during Dickens lifetime. However, they looked quite different from our cards today. Refer to the following site for information about cards during this era: Victorian Christmas cards with descriptions of the examples, pictures and text. http://http://www.victoriana.com/christmas/xmas-side.htmhttp://www.victoriana.com/christmas/xmas-side.htm David Perdue’s Charles Dickens Page http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickenshttp://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens

4. Resources Use these slides of pictures to create your own version of Victorian Era Holiday cards. Remember: –Use any graphic picture you choose—you do not have to include all pictures on a slide. –Resize the pictures so they fit the scheme of your card.

5. –To save a picture, right-click on the picture and “Save picture as” on your desktop »OR Right-click on the picture and “copy” it, then Right-click on the document where you want the picture and “paste” it. Resize the picture so it looks the way you desire.

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17. Victorian Era Holiday Cards--examples

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22. Victoriana http://www.victoriana.com/antiques/greeting-cards/greeting- cards1.htm http://www.victoriana.com/antiques/greeting-cards/greeting- cards1.htm Check out the following sites for more information and graphics: David Perdue’s Charles Dickens Page http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickenshttp://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens Charles Dickens Victorian Web Site http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/dickens/dickensov.html http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/dickens/dickensov.html Victoriana http://www.victoriana.com/welcome/http://www.victoriana.com/welcome/

23. Victorian Women Writers Project http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/