The Man Who Invented Christmas: Chapters 1-6
The first literary celebrity
Hello readers!
I hope you’ve enjoyed diving into 19th-century London as much as I have. For being a history book, The Man Who Invented Christmas offers a brisk pace and very readable writing. This week’s reading focused on Dickens’ life and work before he wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
I was reminded of the truly remarkable nature of Dickens’ rise, an…
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