Rock Hard Valentine: BWWM Holiday Romance Series

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Ron Huza (February 14, 2007). "Lost in translation: The cultural divide over Valentine's Day". The Gazette. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.Laura Seddon (1996). Victorian Valentines: A Guide to the Laura Seddon Collection of Valentine Cards in Manchester Metropolitan University Library. Manchester Metropolitan University. ISBN 9780901276544. Archived from the original on January 3, 2014 . Retrieved November 8, 2013. The modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784), a collection of English nursery rhymes published in London by Joseph Johnson:

The holiday was first introduced in Spain through a 1948 advertisement campaign by the department store chain Galerías Preciados, [185] and had become widespread by the 1970s. [185] Kelly, Henry Ansgar, Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine (Brill Academic Publishers, 1997), ISBN 90-04-07849-5. Chapter 6 The Genoese St. Valentine, p. 80–83.In the United States, the first mass-produced Valentines of embossed paper lace were produced and sold shortly after 1847 by Esther Howland (1828–1904) of Worcester, Massachusetts. [76] [77] Her father operated a large book and stationery store, but Howland took her inspiration from an English Valentine she had received from a business associate of her father. [78] [79] Intrigued with the idea of making similar Valentines, Howland began her business by importing paper lace and floral decorations from England. [79] [80]