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Valentine’s Day cards too sugary sweet for you? Return to the 19th-century custom of the spicy ‘vinegar valentine’

  • Written by Melissa Chim, Scholarly Communications Librarian, Excelsior University
imageA woman turns down a dapper 'snake' in a 'vinegar valentine' from the 1870s.Wikimedia Commons

Ahh, Valentine’s Day: the perfect moment to tell your sweetheart how much you love them with a thoughtful card.

But what about people in your life you don’t like so much? Why is there no Hallmark card telling them to get lost?

The Victorians had...

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