"The fairy play," from Original Christmas Stories by Madge Elliot, 1883.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

Pleasure: A Holiday Book of Prose and Verse, 1871.

The number of fools is infinite, from Memoires Pour Servir À L'histoire De La Fête Des Foux, Qui Se Faisoit Autrefois Dans Plusieurs Eglises by Jean-Bénigne Lucotte Tilliot, 1751.  (See our previous item about the fool's marotte here.)

"O Queen of Earth and Heaven!  O Peerless among Women, the dreaded day hath dawned!"  From The Eye of Istar by William Le Queux, 1897.

From Stories in Rhyme for Holiday Time, written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and illustrated by Walter Satterlee, 1884.

Princess Ice-heart: "she shall be known for what she is," from Studies and Stories by Mrs. Molesworth, 1893.

"Out of the depths," from Queen Mary's Psalter, British Museum.

"Bud, Blossom, Berry, are you there?  Appear!"  From The Kitchen Maid by Mary F. Guillemard and illustrated by J. Bernard Partridge 1896.

We're always happy to see the Queen of Hearts step out.  From Los Ingleses Tales Como Son Carácter, Leyes, Usos y Costumbres del Pueblo Inglés, y Todas Sus Extravagancias by Tomás Bertrán Soler, 1858.

Here's the secret meaning of the Queen of Diamonds*: "Don't desire to be high-prized."  From The Idler, 1895.

*Note the diamond motif at the queen's feet.

We've been keeping one of our latest publications under the radar, lest it fall into the wrong hands.  But we felt safe sharing it with Clint Marsh (of Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop fame).  From his review in The Pamphleteer:

A master of practical esoterica, Prof. Oddfellow (a.k.a. the inimitable Craig Conley) follows in the footsteps of magicians throughout history in tracing his lineage to a potent fabulous ancestor, in this case Elizabeth of York, the mother of Henry VIII and the woman immortalized as the Queen of Hearts in the familiar deck of playing cards we've all seen.  Instead of climbing the family tree back toward Elizabeth, though, Conley begins with her and comes down through history toward himself.  This approach makes perfect sense to anyone bent on establishing a blood connection to a particular figure from the past, and it seems to involve less risk of falling down the wrong genealogical rabbit hole.  ... [Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy is] a wonderful new addition to his teeming brood of bibliomantic offspring.

An illustration from an 1891 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "The Queen of Spades denotes ill-luck."