‘Popular Literature at Christmas: Reading and Ritual’ by Kate Forrester

When Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol first appeared on Victorian bookshelves in 1843 it was a milestone in both Dickens’s career and the future of Christmas print. Written in a fever of emotion and energy, laughter and tears, Dickens’s Carol was the product of fits of writing punctuated by long walks in the middle of … Continue reading “‘Popular Literature at Christmas: Reading and Ritual’ by Kate Forrester”