Any bachelors invited to the Dickens family Christmas stayed in a special “bachelor’s cottage” in the nearby village. In 1859, Charles enlisted these men to help him build a Swiss chalet ...

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol to raise awareness of some of the problems in Victorian society. He thought that many of these problems could be solved if people were kinder to each other.

Antique travel photographs of England: Charles Dickens 8. He redefined Christmas. In December 1843, he published the first of five Christmas-themed novellas. A Christmas Carol, the story of ...