A Visit to Old Fezziwig's Christmas Eve Ball

Old Fezziwig sure knew how to throw an office Christmas party. Dickens's description of Christmas Eve in Fezziwig's counting house included vigorous fiddling and elaborate dancing. That style of dance may belong to a bygone time, but it lives on in the annual Great Dickens Christmas Fair. In this special episode, Cathleen Myers joins Christmas Past to explain how Victorians danced their way to Christmas.
Mentioned in this Episode The Great Dickens Christmas Fair Period Events and Entertainments Re-Creation Society (Peers) Music in this Episode "Toe Tapper" - Primal House Music, via Pixabay "Ambient Grand Piano for Meditation or Background" - Julius H., via Pixabay

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This was really great.

[@jonathankenner576]

Great video! I'm wondering though...
If...:
(A) The story was published in 1843...
(B) Scrooge was, let's say, 50 years old in the story, meaning he was born 1793...
(C) Scrooge was 18 years old in his apprenticeship to Fezziwig...
And
(D) The story is contemporaneous with 1843...that the events happened on Christmas 1843...
Then that means Fezziwig's party would have been ~1811.
So maybe Christmas parties were even earlier!
Happy to hear thoughts!

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Mr. Dickens' story doesn't say exactly how old Scrooge is, but in the original illustrations shown in the book, as well as the various stage, movie, and TV adaptations of it, Scrooge appears to be much older than fifty years. In fact, he usually seems to be in his sixties, seventies, or even EIGHTIES!

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@@michaelpalmieri7335 Excellent point!
So Fezziwig's party may have been even earlier...late 18th century.
So a l.o.n.g. history of Christmas office parties.