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Dickens' A Christmas Carol remains a classic 180 years later. Did it also change holiday?

News Herald - Panama City 24 Dec 2023
How Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits," argues that "A Christmas Carol" launched the modern holiday that is celebrated today ... "Charles Dickens made that happen.
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Why Michael Caine’s best-ever performance is Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol

Metro UK 23 Dec 2023
However, truly the best – and at that time, the most surprising – career decision Sir Michael ever made was saying yes to playing Charles Dickens’ famous miser and anti-hero, surrounded by a bunch of puppets, in 1992’s The Muppet Christmas Carol.
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2023 Home \u0026 Loggia Calendar: A sampling of events in Palm Beach and vicinity

Palm Beach Daily News 26 Nov 2023
Author author Les Standiford will discuss his book, "The Man Who Invented Christmas," about how Charles Dickens saved his career as an author and created enduring Christmas traditions.
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A Christmas Moral for Women

The American Spectator 13 Nov 2023
The feminized and anti-feminist reimagining of Charles DickensA Christmas Carol would have done them a valuable service in their earlier life, in positing that career pursuit is a sad, empty substitute for family focus.
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From Hong Kong to Honeoye Falls: independent bookstore Bleak House Books turns the page

Democrat & Chronicle 09 Nov 2023
"Bleak House" is a Charles Dickens novel about an interminable courtroom proceeding, a nod to their love of literature as well as Wan's legal career.
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Fiction on Trial

The Atlantic 05 Sep 2023
his first reader, his lover, the hostess of the literary salons he throws for his friends Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Cruikshank, and so forth ... She recalls seeing, when she was young, a cartoon of Charles Dickens.
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Zadie Smith on the problem of the good white woman

Vox 05 Sep 2023
The Fraud by Zadie Smith. Penguin Press ...A man with no centre, who might be nudged in any direction, depending ... ... Mrs ... At the height of his career, Ainsworth outsold Charles Dickens; within 30 years of his death, he’d become all but forgotten ... Yet Mrs.
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Voices/Peter Buckley | A closing note from Colleen's pediatrician

The News-Gazette 10 Jul 2023
... is a particular delight, and has added a new and amazing dimension to my career ... I will say goodbye with a quote from Charles Dickens that I’ve kept by my desk since I started my career.
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Brett Crawford has chance of July glory with in-form four-year-olds

Business Day 11 Jun 2023
After Charles Dickens had notched the eighth win of his career, trainer Candice Bass-Robinson said she was unsure whether her star performer would run again this season.
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Roberts bids to become the first to win the July as jockey and trainer

Business Day 08 May 2023
After Saturday’s second place behind Charles Dickens in the Guineas, the popular jockey knows the son of Twice Over ticks a lot of boxes for the July ... two-and-a-half lengths behind Charles Dickens.
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The very down-to-earth royal: How Princess Margaret's 'unassuming' and artistic daughter Lady Sarah Chatto is ...

The Daily Mail 01 May 2023
With only a three-year age gap, Lady Sarah Chatto and Diana were already friendly before Diana's engagement to Charles ... Somerset Maugham or Charles Dickens. He soon gave up his acting career, however, to focus on painting, a passion shared with Sarah.
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Shalom Brune-Franklin: What you don't know about me

Harpers Bazaar 18 Mar 2023
It really helped to kick-start my career and gave me the funds to be able to chase my dreams." ... Her latest starring role is as Estella in the BBC’s forthcoming six-part adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations.
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Koster predicts Kommetdieding can make his mark in the stallion ranks

Business Day 13 Feb 2023
The pair were split by Trippi, whose four yearlings averaged R700,000 — no surprise as the stallion is at the end of his career and is the sire of Met winner Jet Dark and Cape Derby favourite Charles Dickens ... SELECTIONS. 1st Race ... 2nd Race ... 3rd Race.
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