Dickens and Christmas
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: Oct 11, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781526712264
Description: 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 mans child”, and it began the Victorians obsession with Christmas.