End Notes

PROLOGUE

Brown, Joel, ‘Christmas Carol’ passes from one Dickens to another, The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) December 19, 2013

Temple Theater, http://www.tremonttemple.org/ourstory

Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_Temple

THE TRAIN RIDE

“There is a hackney-coach . . . Dickens, Charles, Charles Dickens on London, Miniature Masterpieces, 2013

Chuzzlewit had fallen short . . . Forster, John, The Life of Charles Dickens, Sterling Publishing (New York, NY) 2011

“It is not uncommon though . . . Smiley, Jane, Charles Dickens, Viking (New York, NY) 2002

Dickens probably scheduled . . . Railway Schedules of the London & Birmingham, 1843

“I think I must be the . . . Noden, Merrell, “Frisky as the Dickens,” Sports Illustrated, February 15, 1988

“Houses were knocked . . . Johnson, Edgar, Charles Dickens, His Tragedy and Triumph, Vol I & II, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY) 1952

“when I wanted variety . . . Nordquist, Richard, “Night Walks,” by Charles Dickens, http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/nightwalks_4.htm

“The Dickens lived in what . . . Callow, Simon, Dickens’ Christmas: A Victorian Celebration, Frances Lincoln (London, England) 2009

“His schoolboy’s few clothes . . . Kaplan, Fred, Dickens: A Biography, William Morrow & Co. (New York, NY) 1990

And this I know, Dickens, Charles, Speech in support of the Manchester Athenaeum, October 5, 1843

“This was a dream, also . . . Ackroyd, Peter, Dickens, Harper Collins (New York, NY) 1990

“I could not bear to think . . . Tomalin, Claire, Charles Dickens: A Life, The Penguin Press (New York, NY) 2011

“not caring to be under . . . Johnson

“We were indebted for . . . Ackroyd

“I shall enforce the . . . Standiford, Les, The Man Who Invented Christmas, Broadway Books (New York, NY) 2008

“How often have we . . . Dickens speech, 1843

“The soiree of the next . . . Ackroyd

“Something about ‘the bright . . . Johnson, Edgar, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, abridgement, Puffin (New York, NY) 1986

“Active as he had been . . . Forster

STAVE I

EBENEZER SCROOGE

“None of Dickens characters . . . Sanders, Andrew, Charles Dickens’s London, Robert Hale (London, England) 2010

“For Dickens, London was . . . Sanders

“I have been this . . . Forster

“This was his first . . . Forster

But the gloaming of an evening . . . “Revealed: the Scot who inspired Dickens’ Scrooge,” The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland) April 24, 2014

Ebenezer Scrooge . . . http://historum.com/blogs/chookie/580-ebeneezer-scrooge.html

John Meggott Elwes . . . Topham, Edward, The Life of the Late John Elwes, Esquire, Paraclete Potter (Poughkeepsie, NY) 1790

“complained bitterly of the birds . . . Miller, William Haig, The Culture of Pleasure, Robert Carter & Bros. (New York, NY) 1873

In 1772 with the help . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elwes_(politician)

“He was halfway through . . . Smiley

SCROOGE AND MARLEY

“It was within this maze . . . Jones, Richard, Walking Dickensian London, Interlink Books (London, England) 2005

“the ancient tower of a . . . Rattigan, David L., “Where was Scrooge’s Office?,” http://scroogebook.blogspot.com/2011/10/where-was-scrooges-office.html

Newman’s Court is off the . . . Hoole, Ivor, “A guide to the alleys, courts, passages, and yards of central London” http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/london-alleys/

Newman’s Court first became . . . McCullough, John Ramsay, A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans ( London, England) 1852

FRED

“Furnival’s Inn was inhabited . . . Johnson Vol. 1

“into an uncarpeted and . . . Johnson Vol. 1

“The Doughty Street home . . . Johnson Vol. 1

“mahogany doors, bookshelves . . . Tomalin

THE SOLICITORS

“The power of population . . . Malthus T. R., An Essay on the Principle of Population, Chapter VII, 1798

“I don’t believe now . . . Forster

“The great Malthusian dread . . . Ritschel, Dr. Dan, Center for History Education at the University of Maryland, http://www.umbc.edu/history/CHE/InstPg/RitDop/Discovery-of-poverty-Malthusianism.htm

BOB CRATCHIT

“I thought in the little back . . . Tyler, Daniel, A Guide to Dickens London, Hesperus Press (London, England) 2012

“Bayham Street was about the . . . Forster

“The housing was uninspiring . . . Tyler

“To say . . . Johnson, Vol 1.

“To be sure the Cratchits . . . Nissenbaum, Stephen, The Battle for Christmas, Vintage Books (New York, NY) 1996

“Most people walked . . . Sanders

“These tended to be . . . Sanders

“Cities fostered new breeds . . . Amato, Anthony, On Foot: A History of Walking, New York University Press (New York, NY) 2004

“[The] core was the old . . . Poole, Daniel, What Jane Austen Ate and What Charles Dickens Knew, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY) 1993

“In Jane Austen’s day . . . Poole

JACOB MARLEY

“a private gentleman and . . . Ackroyd

“Dickens’s walks served him . . . Noden

“But Dickens’s walks played . . . Noden

“If I could not walk far . . . Noden

“Legend holds that it was . . . Jones

“It should not be imagined . . . Johnson, Vol. 1

There was a marked difference . . . MacKenzie, Norman and Jeanne, Dickens: A Life, Oxford University Press (New York, NY) 1979

“dragged by the hair of my head . . . Ackroyd

“All through the Christian ages . . . Orwell, George, Charles Dickens, Inside the Whale and Other Essays, Penguin (London, England) 1940

STAVE II

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST

“His study had to be precisely . . . Currey, Mason, Daily Rituals, Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY) 2014

“On an ordinary day, he . . . Currey

“I have never forgotten . . . Hearn, Michael Patrick, The Annotated Christmas Carol, W.W. Norton (New York, NY) 2004

“The scheme of A . . . Hearn

“As with every other . . . Hearn

THE SCHOOL

“every encouragement in his power . . . Langton, Robert, The Childhood and Youth of Charles Dickens, Cornell University Library (Ithaca, NY) 2012

Students at Mr. Giles’ school were . . . Langton

“The school room setting . . . Slater

“Those who seek reasons . . . Ackroyd

“in the days when there . . . Langton

OLD FEZZIWIG

“When we were only babies . . . Dickens, Mamie, My Father, As I Recall Him, Roxburghe Press (Westminster, England) 1896

“No one can imagine . . . Dickens, Mamie

“The relationship between the . . . Nissenbaum

BELLE

“Hogarth . . . had a large and still . . . Tomalin

“He (Dickens) saw in her . . . Tomalin

“I am writing by candle-light . . . Ackroyd

“All the whilehe was trying . . . MacKenzie

“You know . . . I have . . . Ackroyd

“Kate,” wrote Edgar Johnson, “finding that . . . Johnson

“the quantity is not sufficient . . . Johnson

“with what a strange mastery . . . Forster

STAVE III

CHRISTMAS PRESENT

“I am bent on paying the money . . . Forster

“Leech was a nervous . . . Hearn

“As a child Charles was exposed . . . Perdue, David, “Dickens’ Amateur Theatricals,” http://charlesdickenspage.com/stage.html

“Constantly underfed, Charles sniffed . . . Kaplan, Michael, Charles Dickens, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT) 2009

“ . . . I fell into a state of neglect . . . Ackroyd

“Workers with some income . . . Poole

“ . . . others observed that Dickens’ . . . Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert, Becoming Dickens, Belknap Harvard University Press (Boston, MA) 2009

“That image of everyone sitting . . . Kirka, Danica, “Dickens Christmas: A turkey as big as me? What’s at Tiny Tim’s table?” Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, December 21, 2008

“Narrative snapshots like the . . . Douglas-Fairhurst

TINY TIM

“Harry was a singular child . . . Ackroyd

“The blackened skies would . . . Chesney, Russell W., M.D., “Environmental factors in Tiny Tim’s near-fatal illness,” Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, March 2012

“The salary earned by Bob Cratchit . . . Chesney

“The dependent person with a disability . . . Block, Laurie with Alison, Jay, producers, “Inventng the Poster Child,” NPR.org, http://www.npr.org/programs/disability/ba_shows.dir/pos_chld.dir/highlights/ttim.html

THE MINERS

“From October 27, to 4 November 1842 . . . Slater

“his imagination continued to be . . . Slater

“Christmas was always a . . . Kaplan

“The close, low chamber at the back . . . Dickens, Charles, “Field Lane Ragged School,” Daily News (London) February 4, 1846

“ . . . [H]e saw before him always . . . Ackroyd

“Many of them retire for . . . Kaplan

STAVE IV

“In the play Everyman, death . . . Bolton, Daniel, “The Study of Death in ‘The Summoning of Everyman,’ ” http://voices.yahoo.com/the-study-death-summoning-everyman-10726313.html, December 22, 2011

THE EXCHANGE

“The Royal Exchange was opened . . . Dickens, Charles, Jr., Dickens’s Dictionary of London, 1879

THE PAWNBROKER

“ . . . nobody ever came to the school . . . Ackroyd

“ . . . [H]is distracted mother tried . . . Johnson, Vol. 1

“Charles, as the man of the family . . . Tomalin

THE DEATH OF TINY TIM

“It was feared, but regarded with . . . Manoli-Skocay, Constance, “A Gentle Death: Tuberculosis in 19th Century Concord,” The Concord Magazine, Winter, 2003

STAVE V

“Marley’s Ghost is the symbol . . . Johnson

“In A Christmas Carol Dickens imagines . . . Ackroyd

“In fact, as everyone surely knew . . . Baker, Russell, “Did Scrooge Buy a Goose or Turkey?” The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon) January 20, 1986

“So, the turkey that Scrooge purchased . . . Rubel, William, http://www.williamrubel.com/2006/07/07/charles-dickens-and-turkeys/, July 7, 2006

THE SOLICITOR REDUX

“The truth is that Dickens’s criticism . . . Orwell

BOB CRATCHIT’S RAISE

“I assume if somebody else . . . Gollom, Mark, “Scrooge an economic hero, defenders say,” CBC News, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/scrooge-an-economic-hero-defenders-say-1.1161205, December 21, 2012

“many thousands whose jobs . . . Gollom

TINY TIM

“How could Scrooge, who . . . Chesney

EPILOGUE

“This was a primitive process . . . Hearn

“I do not doubt, in my own . . . Hearn

“At Christmas 1843 Dickens, for all . . . Tomalin

“Dickens and Forster above all exerted . . . Carlyle, Jane, http://carlyleletters.dukejournals.org/

“Forster is out again; and if he don’t . . . Ackroyd

“Good God, how we missed you . . . Johnson

“Never had a little book an outset . . . Forster

“The book went straight to . . . Tomalin

“A few days later, in a separate . . . Wagenknecht, Edward, Dickens and the Scandalmongers, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK) 1965

“He was one of the oddest men to . . . Callow

“Christmas cards were not introduced . . . Ackroyd

“Dickens, with his A Christmas Carol, more than . . . Connelly, Mark, Christmas, A History, I.B. Tauris & Co. (London, England) 2012

DISAPPOINTMENT . . .

Dickens soon found himself in a . . . Ackroyd

“The first six thousand copies . . . Forster

“And indeed this was his panic . . . Ackroyd

THE FIRST READING

“the coxcombical idea of writing down . . . Johnson

“On the way to the railway station . . . Ackroyd

“ . . . we were all going on together . . . Ackroyd

“Dickens’s delighted enjoyment, in fact . . . Kent, Charles, Charles Dickens as a Reader, Chapman & Hall, 1872

“The secret of his original success . . . Kent

“how Mr. Dickens twirled his moustache . . . Ackroyd,

“My good friends. . . .” But he had to stop . . . Ackroyd

“I now proceed to the pleasant task . . . Ackroyd

“If Dickens does turn Reader . . . Ackroyd

THE LAST CHRISTMAS

“The Carol also shows a notable . . . Slater

“Dickens was lying ill on a sofa, playing . . . Maurois, Andre, Dickens, Frederick Ungar Publishing (New York, NY) 1967

“My father, after man turns had successfully . . . Ackroyd

“As Dickens grew up . . . MacKenzie

“The site of his childhood labor . . . Ackroyd

“It was not until his biography appeared . . . Maurois

“All that his readers knew or . . . Slater

“Thrown among the poor and needy . . . Slater

“Certain biographers have shown surprise . . . Maurois

THE LAST READING

“No one can imagine their own . . . Tomalin

“It was more than a reading; it was an extraordinary . . . Johnson

“what creatures were those . . . Kent

“He tightened the narrative . . . Perdue, David, “Dickens’ Public Readings,” http://charlesdickenspage.com/stage.html

“Dickens’ six-man entourage . . . Perdue, Public Readings

“How the audience loved best of all . . . Perdue, Public Readings

“It was an occasion of high emotion . . . Tomalin

“Never did [a] man wishing to deceive . . . McManus, I.C., “Charles Dickens: A Neglected Diagonosis,” The Lancet, Volume 358, Issue 9299, pp. 2158 - 2161, December 22, 2001

“I have had some step put up the side . . . Johnson

“The time had now come for him . . . Ackroyd, p. 1066

“The largest audience ever assembled . . . Kent, Reader

“spare figure . . . faultlessly attired in evening dress . . . Ackroyd

“a big man, full of energy, optimism and know-how . . . Tomalin

“The manly, cordial voice only faltered . . . Kent, Readings

“When he ceased to speak,” wrote Henry Fielding Dickens . . . Leacock, Stephen, Charles Dickens: The Life and Work, Doubleday Doran (Garden City, NY) 1936

“I count among the most distressful moments . . . Dickens, Mary Angela, “My Grandfather As I Knew Him,” Cosmopolitan, Volume 52