Dickens and His Carol is more of a fantasy, although such books can be very enjoyable. So there are serious divergences from the truth. Piracy issues then plagued him all his life. To add to the insult, pirated copies quickly went on sale too. A Christmas Carol was enormously successful, but still it did not help his money worries! Everyone was reading it, as he had hoped, but the profits were tiny.
This combination resulted in disappointingly low profits despite high sales then, and forever more. Dickens ordered lavish bindings, gilt edging, and hand-coloured illustrations and then set the price low, at 5 shillings so that everyone could afford it.
Charles Dickens financed the publication of A Christmas Carol himself.ĥ. Publisher and author disagreed violently, and their feud began. They therefore wanted to issue A Christmas Carol in an cheap collection of Dickens’s works - or possibly as part of a new magazine. But his publishers' reaction to the disappointing sales of Martin Chuzzlewit had led to them losing faith in the marketability of Dickens’s work. He wrote A Christmas Carol in 6 weeks, (not 4), as he felt gripped and inspired by the idea.Ĥ. Yes, he wanted his next book to sell well.ģ. His previous novel Martin Chuzzlewit had not sold as well as he and his publishers had expected. No time yet for extra-marital romantic liaisons.Ģ.
His sister Fran had a young crippled son (depicted as "Tiny Tim"). He had recent experiences with industrialism and prisons, both in England and the USA. He'd also just been invited to speak at the first annual general meeting of the "Manchester Athenaeum" (an adult education institute for the working class), along with Disraeli. The inspiration for the book lay in Charles Dickens's visits to, and campaigning for, the Ragged Schools, (self-help institutions for the urban poor) with which he was becoming increasingly involved.
As is the idea that he had to write a story quickly to pay his debts. But the invention of "Eleanor" as a sort of muse is pure fiction. I haven't read it, and gather the descriptions of London, and Charles Dickens's long walks through it, day or night - plus everyone viewing him as a source of cash - are well done. However, I have to point out that the work is largely fiction. Thanks for bringing this one up, Connie, and for your excellent review of it :) It has a lot of biographical material in it, and is entertaining. Mod Connie wrote: "I enjoyed reading the historical fiction book Mr.
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