Winter Book Club: A Christmas Carol
Dec 25, 2025•49 min
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Episode description
Christmas wasn't always a national shopping spree — or even a day off work. But when Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in 19th-century London, the holiday went viral.
Guests:
Guests:
Leon Litvack, professor of Victorian Studies at Queen's University in Belfast and editor of the Charles Dickens Letters project.
Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, author and historian of Victorian England.
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