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Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge , an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of ...
The character of Bob Cratchit has been featured in works based on A Christmas Carol. Cratchit by Alexander Knott premiered at London's Park Theatre, with John Dagleish as Bob. The play "explores what might happen if Cratchit was visited by the Ghost of Christmas yet-to-come and shown a bleak vision of the future, where the gap between rich and ...
Dickens never explicitly specifies the illness Tiny Tim suffers, although he walks with a crutch and has "his limbs supported by an iron frame".. In 1992, American paediatric neurologist Donald Lewis, although describing the boy as "the crippled son of Ebenezer Scrooge's clerk", proposed as one possibility renal tubular acidosis (type 1), a type of kidney failure causing the blood to become ...
Source [2]. John Henry Hopkins Jr. organized the carol in such a way that three male voices would each sing a solo verse in order to correspond with the three kings. [3] The first and last verses of the carol are sung together by all three as "verses of praise", while the intermediate verses are sung individually with each king describing the gift he was bringing. [4]
Dickens portrait by Margaret Gillies (1843), painted during the period when he was writing A Christmas Carol.. By early 1843, Dickens had been affected by the treatment of the poor, and in particular the treatment of the children of the poor after witnessing children working in appalling conditions in a tin mine [4] and following a visit to a ragged school. [5]
Short Christmas movie quotes “Seeing isn’t believing; believing is seeing.” — Charlie, “The Santa Claus 2" "But sir, Christmas is a time for giving ... a time to be with one’s family.”
It had been associated with the carol since at least the mid-18th century, when it was recorded by James Nares in a hand-written manuscript under the title "The old Christmas Carol". [13] Hone's version of the tune differs from the present melody in the third line. The full current melody was published by Chappell in 1855. [13] [14]
Keep reading for 45 of the best Christmas movie quotes of all time, including Home Alone, A Bad Moms Christmas and more. 90 Holiday Quotes to Spread Some Serious Christmas Cheer . Funny Christmas ...