A reflection on Charles Dickens and history, meaning of the season
The spirit of Christmas was being relegated to a minor holiday under the smokestacks of industrial profit. And then Scrooge and Tiny Tim came onstage.
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The spirit of Christmas was being relegated to a minor holiday under the smokestacks of industrial profit. And then Scrooge and Tiny Tim came onstage.
I did not rush to the computer with this column. Instead, when I got home around 10 p.m. on December 16, I sat in the darkened front room of my
But if Ebenezer Scrooge is a supreme feat of literary imagination, what's less well-known is that the character had an inspiration in real life. John Elwes was a man so truly miserly.
Charles Dickens’s words were codified in 1843, when first published as A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. The novella, illustrated by John Leech, was published by London’s Chapman and Hall, and has been a holiday staple ever since. Changes in times and ...
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