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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 ...
"What Child Is This?" is a Christmas carol with lyrics written by William Chatterton Dix in 1865 and set to the tune of "Greensleeves", a traditional English folk song, in 1871. Although written in Great Britain, the carol today is more popular in the United States than its country of origin. [1]
Christina Rossetti, portrait by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti "In the Bleak Midwinter" is a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti.It was published under the title "A Christmas Carol" in the January 1872 issue of Scribner's Monthly, [1] [2] and first collected in book form in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (Macmillan, 1875).
The song has also been sampled, quoted, and featured as a dramatic device in numerous films: Tom Brown's School Days (1940) Scrooge (1951; released in the U.S. as A Christmas Carol) Robin Hood Daffy (1958; Warner Brothers cartoon) The Buccaneer (1958), sung by Claire Bloom. Parker Adderson, Philosopher (1974; short film [54])
Humbug!” reflex and vows “to honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” "A Christmas Carol" was published 180 years ago this year, on Dec. 19, 1843, and sold all 6,000 ...
[4] [2] [3] The earliest known printed edition of the carol is in a broadsheet dated to c. 1760. [5] A precisely datable reference to the carol is found in the November 1764 edition of the Monthly Review. [6] Some sources claim that the carol dates as far back as the 16th century. [7] Others date it later, to the 18th or early 19th centuries ...
Fully titled "A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas," Dickens' now-iconic tale was initially published on Dec. 19, 1843.
Gaudete by Collegium Vocale Bydgoszcz The first page of the original version. Gaudete (English: / ɡ ɔː ˈ d iː t iː / gaw-DEE-tee or English: / ɡ aʊ ˈ d eɪ t eɪ / gow-DAY-tay, Ecclesiastical Latin: [ɡau̯ˈdete]; "rejoice []" in Latin) [a] is a sacred Christmas carol, thought to have been composed in the 16th century.