Victorian #Valentines cards weren't all hearts and roses. Some were designed to mock, insult or discourage unwanted suitors. A history professor explains how a whole subgenre targeted specific professions.
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The ConversationHow Valentine’s Day was transformed by the Industrial Revolution and ‘manufactured intimacy’In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London’s foremost card manufacturers – to reveal how emotions were being ‘manufactured.’
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