Christmas, according to Agnes Jekyll
Posted by louisa on Thursday 23 December 2010 in meta | 0 comments
“God made the first Christmas, and man has ever since been busy spoiling it.
Year by year the propaganda of the shops grows increasingly active; and their suggestions for the keeping of that high feast … appear annually more elaborate and incongruous than ever before.”
Agnes Jekyll, 1922.
(1922! Imagine what she’d think of Christmas in the 21st century!)
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