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Winter Book Club: A Christmas Carol

Winter Book Club: A Christmas Carol

Throughline · NPR

December 25, 202549m 20s

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Show Notes

Christmas wasn't always a national shopping spree — or even a day off work. But when Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in 19th-century London, the holiday went viral.


Guests:

Leon Litvack, professor of Victorian Studies at Queen's University in Belfast and editor of the Charles Dickens Letters project.

Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, author and historian of Victorian England.
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