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Valentine's Day is observed on February 14 each year. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards

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The Fair Maid of Perth (1828) by Walter Scott
"Saint Valentine's Day" (1877) by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
"Valentine's Day" (n.d.), by an unknown author
"Valentine's Day, 1873" by Charles Kingsley in Littell's Living Age, 136 (1753) (19^th January, 1878)
"St. Valentine's Day Custom at Northrepps" by W. B. Gerish in Folk-Lore, 5 (1894)