English poet Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the first recorded poem in 1375 titled “Parliament of Foules”. Doesn’t sound very romantic to me. But then what do I know of romance in the year 1375? By 1840, Easter A. Howland was the first person to mass-produce the Valentine card. To read more about the “Mother of the Valentine”, check out this link on an interesting read about an amazing person. She broke all the rules when it came to a woman in a man’s world of entrepreneurs. Happy February 14th. !
http://www.victoriana.com/VictorianValentine/estherhowland.htm