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Advent Calendar December 19th

Introducing a Dickensian Christmas On this day in 1843 Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol. He wrote it in just six weeks. The print run of 6000 sold out by Christmas … Continue reading →

December 19, 2024 · 2 Comments
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Do you know where Dickens got the character Scrooge from? It was a bit of mistake actually…

It is clear from any Dickens’ novel that the great man enjoyed names. His friend and biographer, John Forster, said that Dickens made “characters real existences, not by describing them … Continue reading →

December 30, 2014 · 23 Comments

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