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Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is among his ... After hearing a Carol reading by Dickens in Boston on Christmas Eve in 1867, a businessman decided to close his factory for Christmas.

Early in the winter of 1841 it had been announced that Charles Dickens would shortly visit ... searching every face, and reading character with wonderful quickness, while the arch smiles played ...

And she has translated that love for language into readings across Canada of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". She began with one reading in 1990, but since then has helped hundreds of ...

Charles Dickens lived in the 1800s ... He travelled the country reading to crowds. His books made readers think about the lives of the poor and the terrible conditions in the workhouses.

When his father was called to London again to be a clerk in the Naval Pay Office, the elder Dickens amassed so much debt that the entire family—except for Charles and his older sister Fanny ...

To commemorate Charles Dickens's historic trip to Lowell in 1842 ... including special appearance by British Actress Miriam Margoyles reading her favorite passage from Dickens.

Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age ...

Charles Dickens lived in the 1800s ... He travelled the country reading to crowds. His books made readers think about the lives of the poor and the terrible conditions in the workhouses.