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Dickens and Christmas by Lucinda Hawksley; Dickens; Christmas is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Dickens and Christmas about?

Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today – and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change. He survived childhood poverty to become the most adored and influential man of his time. Throughout his life, he campaigned tirelessly for better social conditions, including by his most famous work, A Christmas Carol. He wrote this novella specifically to “strike a sledgehammer blow on behalf of the poor man’s child”, and it began the Victorians’ obsession with Christmas.This new book, written by one of his direct descendants, explores not only Dickens’s most famous work, but also his all-too-often overlooked other Christmas novellas. It takes the readers through the seasonal short stories he wrote, for both adults and children, includes much-loved festive excerpts from his novels, uses contemporary newspaper clippings, and looks at Christmas writings by Dickens’ contemporaries. To give an even more personal insight, readers can discover how the Dickens family itself celebrated Christmas, through the eyes of Dickens’s unfinished

Who reads Dickens and Christmas?

Author

Lucinda Hawksley; Dickens; Christmas

Publisher

Pen and Sword History

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526712264

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Science, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.22 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14