Dickens and Christmas: with Lucinda Hawksley

In this first episode, Dominic is joined by Dickens' Great-Great-Great Granddaughter, the Writer and Broadcaster, Lucinda Hawksley.
On a cold December morning they talk through Lucinda's book Dickens and Christmas , which has just been published in paperback by Pen & Sword Books. It follows the story of Dickens' earliest Christmas as an infant, through to the five great festive novellas he wrote during the 1840s.
From A Christmas Carol to the Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain ...
Lucinda's also shares her earliest memories of knowing who Dickens was and what she really thinks about each of the five Christmas books!
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Host: Dominic Gerrard (www.dominicgerr...)
Series Artwork: Léna Gibert (lenagibert.fr)
Original Music: Dominic Gerrard (www.dominicgerr...)
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But according to my independent research, conducted over a period of 15 years, Charles Dickens didn't write "A Christmas Carol," he plagiarized a completed manuscript co-authored by an American couple named Mathew and Abby Whittier. Then he hurriedly secularized and commercialized it within six weeks, privately calling it "a little scheme" and inadvertently admitting, in his Jan. 2, 1844 letter to American professor Cornelius Felton, that he had obtained it from some other source. His subsequent Christmas stories were faint reflections of the "Carol," and that's because he was literally incapable of writing a story with the spiritual power of the "Carol."