“A Christmas Carol”

Dickens’ A Christmas Carol remains one of everyone’s favorite holiday reads, even after the 165 years since it was published.  I wrote a previous post on the publication history here  – so I do repeat myself about my childhood memory of watching the 1951 Alastair Sim movie adaptation on a VERY small B&W television [I am dating myself here!] – [...]

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Dickens ~ “A Christmas Carol”

Today we celebrate Dickens A Christmas Carol , first published on December 19, 1843.  Illustrated by John Leech, it was the first of Dickens’s Christmas stories, instantly successful, selling over 6,000 copies in a week.  It also stimulated a revival of the Christmas traditions that we associate with Victorian England, many of which we still practice [...]

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