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History & Biography Archives - December 2013

Charles Dickens

Published December 23, 2013 Submitted by: Jenny

Perennial adaptations of Charles Dickens’s seasonal classic “A Christmas Carol” have made the Victorian author a household name, but there’s much more to the creator of the curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge than guiding ghosts,Tiny Tim, and plum pudding. More

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