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Inventing Scrooge

Carlo DeVito

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Description:In 1843 Charles Dickens took a train to Manchester, England, and conceived the idea of A Christmas Carol. Weaving intensely personal strands from his own life (almost every character was plucked from his life), he wrote, in one month, one of the most famous Christmas tales of all time. Inventing Scrooge is the story behind the train ride that ultimately changed Christmas. It was the most important journey of his life-and one of the most significant in the history of literature. On October 4, 1843, Charles Dickens boarded a train from London to Manchester to give a speech at the Manchester Atheneum, exhorting his audience towards charity for all. Dickens believed in educating men, women, and children, insisting that charitable institutions which provided knowledge, would lead to a better class of skilled and educated workers, and better citizens. Dickens insisted that the holiday season was a good time to give. Still, Dickens was not impressed by his own efforts. Giving such speeches, two to three hundred people at a time, was not the way to reach his audience and spread his meaning. It was too piece meal and took too long. It was on this train ride to make this speech that the first ideas came to Dickens to instead, write a story that might advance his cause in a much more effective way. As the train lurched by the engine works at grimy Camden Town, Dickens thoughts must have tripped backwards in his mind, to a time in his youth, when he and his many brothers and sisters lived all jammed into a small home, where the Dickens family led a meager and lean life, as his father struggled with mounting debt. On this eight-hour ride, the seeds for one of his most famous stories came to life - A Christmas Carol. Dickens became obsessed by the story. He wrote that as the tale unfolded he 'wept and laughed, and wept again' and that he 'walked about the black streets of London fifteen or twenty miles many a night when all sober folks had gone to bed.' And almost every aspect of the story came to him as it pulled it from his life. - The nephew, Fred, who comes to see Scrooge is a carefree spirit, who lives what Scrooge considers to be a spendthrift existence, much like Dickens own brother Fred was in real life. - Fred is the son of Scrooge's sister, Fan. In real life, Dickens' favorite and closest sibling was Fran (or Fanny). - Tiny Tim was modeled on Dickens' nephew Henry Burnett Jr., who was small and handicapped. - The Cratchits were the Dickens family of Charles' youth. The Dickens lived in Camden Town, eight to a small, row house, with little money. - Much like Ebernezer Scrooge, Dickens own real life wife Catherine Hogarth, tried to break off their engagement citing that Dickens was more obsessed with making money than spending time with her. Dickens took up all these threads, and wove them into one of the most magical tales of all time. And it all came from this trip to Manchester.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Inventing Scrooge. To get started finding Inventing Scrooge, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 256

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Cider Mill Press

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1604335556

Description: In 1843 Charles Dickens took a train to Manchester, England, and conceived the idea of A Christmas Carol. Weaving intensely personal strands from his own life (almost every character was plucked from his life), he wrote, in one month, one of the most famous Christmas tales of all time. Inventing Scrooge is the story behind the train ride that ultimately changed Christmas. It was the most important journey of his life-and one of the most significant in the history of literature. On October 4, 1843, Charles Dickens boarded a train from London to Manchester to give a speech at the Manchester Atheneum, exhorting his audience towards charity for all. Dickens believed in educating men, women, and children, insisting that charitable institutions which provided knowledge, would lead to a better class of skilled and educated workers, and better citizens. Dickens insisted that the holiday season was a good time to give. Still, Dickens was not impressed by his own efforts. Giving such speeches, two to three hundred people at a time, was not the way to reach his audience and spread his meaning. It was too piece meal and took too long. It was on this train ride to make this speech that the first ideas came to Dickens to instead, write a story that might advance his cause in a much more effective way. As the train lurched by the engine works at grimy Camden Town, Dickens thoughts must have tripped backwards in his mind, to a time in his youth, when he and his many brothers and sisters lived all jammed into a small home, where the Dickens family led a meager and lean life, as his father struggled with mounting debt. On this eight-hour ride, the seeds for one of his most famous stories came to life - A Christmas Carol. Dickens became obsessed by the story. He wrote that as the tale unfolded he 'wept and laughed, and wept again' and that he 'walked about the black streets of London fifteen or twenty miles many a night when all sober folks had gone to bed.' And almost every aspect of the story came to him as it pulled it from his life. - The nephew, Fred, who comes to see Scrooge is a carefree spirit, who lives what Scrooge considers to be a spendthrift existence, much like Dickens own brother Fred was in real life. - Fred is the son of Scrooge's sister, Fan. In real life, Dickens' favorite and closest sibling was Fran (or Fanny). - Tiny Tim was modeled on Dickens' nephew Henry Burnett Jr., who was small and handicapped. - The Cratchits were the Dickens family of Charles' youth. The Dickens lived in Camden Town, eight to a small, row house, with little money. - Much like Ebernezer Scrooge, Dickens own real life wife Catherine Hogarth, tried to break off their engagement citing that Dickens was more obsessed with making money than spending time with her. Dickens took up all these threads, and wove them into one of the most magical tales of all time. And it all came from this trip to Manchester.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Inventing Scrooge. To get started finding Inventing Scrooge, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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