The backstory behind ‘A Christmas Carol’

Published December 23, 2020

By HELEN BREEN

BOB CRATCHIT and his son Tiny Tim represented the London poor with whom Charles Dickens sympathized. (www.open-books.com)

LYNNFIELD — “Marley was dead to begin with.” Charles Dickens conceived the opening line of “A Christmas Carol” as he walked the cold, damp streets of Manchester, England after a fundraising…

 

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