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Nicole Dufoe, PhD Candidate in Victorian Literature and English Instructor, University of Toronto

How 19th-century Victorians’ wellness resolutions were about self-help — and playful ritual fun

January is named after the two-faced Roman god Janus, and the Victorians understood this has long been a season of looking backward as much as forward, and not just in search of lessons. (Shutterstock)

On Jan. 1, 1887, a poem appeared in two British newspapers.

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