Christmas with Charles Dickens
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What Christmas Is to a Bunch of People?
In 1849, we get David Copperfield. This was meant to be an autobiography. But he chickens out and makes it a fictional book. Then in 1850, you get household words - which is his new periodical. The 1851 edition has a lovely piece called What Christmas Is to a Bunch of People. It's about how different people experience Christmas in the family. And I thought maybe, Mike, you'd like to give us your finest Dickensian performance of the father. He rubs his hands with a genial smile when Christmas comes. Yet he now and then raises one finger to the calculating organ of his cranium with rather a thoughtful air,. suggestive of certain bills and
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