Was Dickens’s Christmas Carol borrowed from Lowell’s mill girls? - The Boston Globe »

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Dickens visited Lowell in 1842, touring the mills and taking notes for a travelogue. The next year, he published “A Christmas Carol.” The story was an immediate hit, shaping how we think of Christmas to this day. Now, new research by a Boston University professor and student, Natalie McKnight and Chelsea Bray, is suggesting that the book may have liberally borrowed plots and themes from amateur writings in a literary journal by the millworkers he visited. The discovery, which will be published in a forthcoming book, expands the inspiration for one of the great holiday stories radically across continents, and introduces an unrecognized set of voices into the range of influences on Dickens. Source Main page (current trends)

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