![]() ![]() ![]() For centuries, during the longest and darkest nights of the year, it was thought that the barrier between this world and the afterlife was at its thinnest. A story of spirits who appear at Christmastime was not invented by Dickens. A Christmas Carol was written to fund this move. He came up with the idea to rent the family’s London home and live on the Continent for a year. He’d found literary fame due to the success of The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, but his new book, Martin Chuzzlewit, was not as successful.ĭickens had a wife and four children to support his wife, Catherine, was pregnant with their fifth. Image courtesy of Morgan Library & Museum Media Department.While the story itself is both touching and mythic, taking a closer look at Dickens’ decision to write the book and the personal history that he poured into it is illuminating.ĭickens, to put it bluntly, wrote A Christmas Carolbecause he needed the money. ![]() Purchased byJohn Pierpont Morgan before 1900. Scott or Patrick Stewart.Īutographed manuscript of the title page of ‘A Christmas Carol,’ signed by Dicken. It has never gone out of print and is the basis for countless adaptations, giving way to debates over who is the best Ebeneezer Scrooge: Alastair Sim or Reginald Owen, George C. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, was published on December 19, 1843, and sold 6,000 copies by Christmas Day. Charles Dickens’ novella, originally titled Christmas Carol. It may well be the most beloved Christmas story ever written. ![]()
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