A Ghost Story of Christmas
A Christmas Carol is a notable 1843 mezzobula, a fictional story that is shorter than a novel, by English author Charles Dickens. Set during Christmas, the novelette introduces Ebenezer Scrooge. - AsNotedIn
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Timeline
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1843/12/17 | Charles Dickens | Author | Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" is published by Chapman and Hall. Priced at 5 shillings (23 pounds in 2018), the first run of 6,000 copies sells out by Christmas Eve. | Old English Punch | |||
| 1867/12/00 | Charles Dickens | Performer | Dickens gives a special reading of "A Christmas Carol" at the Parker House to the Saturday Club. Parker House has the door to Dickens' room and the mirror used by him for rehearsals. | Parker House | Boston | Charles Dickens' 1867 Tour of America | |
| 1867/12/00 | Saturday Club (Boston) | Gathering | Dickens gives a special reading of "A Christmas Carol" at the Parker House to the Saturday Club. Parker House has the door to Dickens' room and the mirror used by him for rehearsals. | Parker House | Boston | Charles Dickens' 1867 Tour of America | |
| 1867/12/03 | Charles Dickens | Author | Charles Dickens begins the first of four sold out readings with a performance of "A Christmas Carol". | Tremont Temple Baptist Church | Boston | ||
| 1935/00/00 | Henry M Brock | Illustrator | "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is published by Dodd, Mead and Company, NY, with four color illustrations by H M Brock. Printed in the US by Vail-Ballou Press, Binghampton, NY. | Binghamton | New York |
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| Particulars for A Christmas Carol (book): | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Audience | Childrens | ||
| Season | Christmas | the annual Christian festival celebrating Christ's birth, late December in the Western Church | |
| Holiday | Christmas Eve | The night before Christmas, December 24th | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Weather | Fog, mist | a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface which obscures visibility, Fog is more dense than mist | |
| Supernatural | Ghost | an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image | |
| Domestic | Hob | a flat metal shelf at the side or back of a fireplace, having its surface level with the top of the grate and used especially for heating pans. | |
| House Attribute | Lumber Room | room used to store miscellaneous discarded household articles, furniture, etc | |
| Narrative Arts | Mezzobula | medium form fiction narrative that is longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Weather | Snow | atmospheric water vapor frozen into light white crystal flakes | |
| Season | Winter | ||
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