Christmas carol. I would love to say he was filled with Christmas Spirit. That was part of it. Good to be honest he needed the money. This is a constantly reframe in dickinsons life. He was a generous man he gave away more money than most of us willr was raised in the shadow of the debtors prison he has his father could never make a living it didnt matter how much money dickens ever had he was convinced tomorrow he would be back at that debtors prison with his family. He felt that learning more and more money was the only way to protect him from the biggest shock of his life which it was when his father was escorted to money was important to him for security. How hot all to see what he saw his father escorted into present. Eleven years old. Are really bad age. Young enough to be traumatized old enough for this to cinch and intellectually that this is the man who supposed to take care of me and here we are. Everyone else lived in the debtors prison. Didnt live there because he was the o
Our readers tend to be Bob Cratchits rather than Ebenezer Scrooges. Last year The Times and Sunday Times Christmas appeal raised more than £2.1 million for a trio of good causes at home and abroad.