Ian Morton explores the runaway success of the Dickens Christmas classic and reveals the ‘real’ Ebenezer Scrooge, who was far from a mean man.
Charles Dickens’s timing was exemplary. A Christmas Carol was published on December 19, 1843, and sold out by Christmas Eve. Within a year, 13 reprints were published and the author was obliged to go to court to stop a rival publisher from producing a maverick edition. The tale has never been out of print.
Such was the…
