A Christmas Carol or, The Miser's Warning: A Drama in 2 Acts, Adapted from Charles Dickens' Story


Date

1984

Identifier

Special Collections PR4066 B38 C5 1984

Publisher

Mission, British Columbia: Barbarian Press

Abstract

Dickens’s concern for children, their welfare, and parenting crystalized in his first Christmas book: A Christmas Carol. The genesis of the story, which features Ebenezer ‘Bah! Humbug!’ Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, and the Ghosts, arose through Dickens’s desire to strike a ‘sledge-hammer blow…on behalf of the Poor Man’s Child’. And Christmas conviviality was not a new theme. He had delved into Xmas cheer at Wardles’s Manor Farm at Dingley Dell in Pickwick Papers, Part X. ‘The Ghost of Marley’ by E. N. Ellis is on display in this dramatized version of Dickens’s classic tale.

[Title page from A Christmas Carol or, The Miser's Warning. A Drama in 2 Acts adapted from Charles Dickens' Story by C. Z. Barnett. Wood engravings by E. N. Ellis.]

Files

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Citation

C. Z. Barnett , “A Christmas Carol or, The Miser's Warning: A Drama in 2 Acts, Adapted from Charles Dickens' Story,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed March 29, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/7104.