It's not Dickens' classic. Charles Dickens hurriedly re-worked the existing manuscript of an obscure American couple within six weeks, to avoid impending debt. His influence was to secularize it and dilute it for mass consumption. My paper, "Evidence That ‘A Christmas Carol’ Was Originally Written by Mathew Franklin Whittier and Abby Poyen Whittier, Rather Than by Charles Dickens," as well as an abridged version designed for scholarly journals, entitled "Mathew Franklin Whittier and Abby Poyen Whittier's Proposed Original Authorship of 'A Christmas Carol,'" can be downloaded from the links below; or, you can search for the titles on Academia.edu. www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_APW_Carol.pdf www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_APW_Carol_abridged.pdf
It's not Dickens' classic. Charles Dickens hurriedly re-worked the existing manuscript of an obscure American couple within six weeks, to avoid impending debt. His influence was to secularize it and dilute it for mass consumption. My paper, "Evidence That ‘A Christmas Carol’ Was Originally Written by Mathew Franklin Whittier and Abby Poyen Whittier, Rather Than by Charles Dickens," as well as an abridged version designed for scholarly journals, entitled "Mathew Franklin Whittier and Abby Poyen Whittier's Proposed Original Authorship of 'A Christmas Carol,'" can be downloaded from the links below; or, you can search for the titles on Academia.edu.
www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_APW_Carol.pdf
www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_APW_Carol_abridged.pdf