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."
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."