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Charles Dickens’s attitude towards women was more complex than ‘misogynist’ label suggests.
Fictional, magical cities can help us understand our own urban lives.
Graveyards were important locations in Victorian life.
And every one of them has a happy ending.
How two ambitious men put their own interests ahead of the great writer and his family in an act of institutionally-sanctioned bodysnatching.
The latest version of Dickens’ classic is a refreshingly diverse tale of the triumph of the ordinary heroism over everyday evil.
Modern viewers: Scrooge doesn’t discuss what he’s learned or ask for redemption. He swiftly negates the life he would have led, had it not been for the ghostly interventions.
We have an innate desire to be reminded of darkness and mortality during the festive season.
Stories like ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ are still relevant today.
Sometimes the unknown is more appealing than the truth – and it has kept ghost hunters in business for generations.
As well as founding England’s first million-selling newspaper, Lloyd shamelessly sold plagiarised versions of some of Charles Dickens’ best-loved novels.
John Sullivan, who created Del Boy and Rodney, has been called a modern Dickens – now both their most famous works have been made into musicals.
If it hadn’t been for A Christmas Carol, the menu may well have centred on goose (or a boar’s head).
There are strong parallels between the Trump administration’s policy on immigrant families and the 19th century’s ‘New’ Poor Laws of England, whose cruelty was illuminated by writer Charles Dickens.
Charles Dickens imagined a robot theme park way back in 1838.
The Victorian idea of Christmas pre-dates Dickens. What the writer did was bring an essentially rural celebration into an urban setting.
From outright celebration, through charity to explicit political salvos – is there such a thing as the ‘ultimate’ Christmas pop song?
Leigh Hunt is a nineteenth-century writer who grappled with the question: How can we celebrate and enjoy ourselves at this time of the year when there is so much misery in the world?
The artist who illustrated A Christmas Carol was one of the best-known satirists of his time.
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Professor of Victorian Literature, Editorial Board Chair, Keele University
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Professor of Victorian literature and print culture, University of Kent
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Professor of Modern British History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
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