Father Christmas — merged with St Nicholas/Santa Claus in the late 19th century, but originally separate & gave no gifts to children! http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/xmas/pages/english.htm …pic.twitter.com/T8uiaNtj0n
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Father Christmas — merged with St Nicholas/Santa Claus in the late 19th century, but originally separate & gave no gifts to children! http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/xmas/pages/english.htm …pic.twitter.com/T8uiaNtj0n
'I Am Here, Sir Christëmas', a 15th-century carol with a very early personified Christmas: http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/i_am_here_sir_christemas.htm …pic.twitter.com/4CZvfO2OYc
'The Examination and Tryal of Old Father Christmas' (1686): https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/06w881 … & http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Poetry/examination__and__tryal_of.htm …pic.twitter.com/N3GRvDkkMh
Dickens's Ghost of Christmas Present, by John Leech, 1843, a version of Father Christmas & dressed in green: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scrooges_third_visitor-John_Leech,1843.jpg …pic.twitter.com/v5CJkhlqI5
A Victorian-era German 'Father Christmas' with a foliage beard.pic.twitter.com/aQoQ822ASl
Old Christmas on the cover of the 1842 Christmas supplement to the London Illustrated News: http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/year/xmas2.htm …pic.twitter.com/zEGn81Ijjs
Turning to look at St Nicholas/Santa Claus, an article on Stephen Nissenbaum's research into the early 19th-century American creation of Santa Claus & the sanitisation of Christmas: http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/christmas-reborn-the-creation-of-a-consumer-christmas-professor-steven-nissenbaum-in-interview/ …pic.twitter.com/zY7SV7q8Pw
A very early illustration of 'Sante Claus' from The Children's Friend, William B. Gilley, 1821: http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/origin-of-santa/ …pic.twitter.com/E5RY5akOUz
Robert Weir's painting of St Nicholas, c. 1837: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/st-nicholas-27465 … For more on this painting and the Knickerbocker interest in reinventing St Nicholas/Santa Claus, see https://www.jstor.org/stable/3050448?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents …pic.twitter.com/VrjzqMnbTA
I've re-read the Washington Irving shorts about Christmas. It seems that it has long been a time of warmth & family!
Back to the early nineteenth century, when it was purposefully reinvented as such, according to Nissenbaum :)
I was reading through that but have had flu...it wasn't making sense (nothing was!).
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