#dickensianchristmas

The ghost of Jacob Marley haunts Ebenezer Scrooge. Illustration by Everett Shinn from the 1938 edition of A Christmas Carol from Garden City Publishing Co., which includes an introduction by Lionel Barrymore. #charlesdickens #dickensianchristmas #everettshinn #victorianghoststories #goldenageillustration https://www.instagram.com/p/CIPQZbznRGB/?igshid=l0khqv3h86ba

"𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖙 𝖙𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖉 𝖍𝖎𝖒 𝖔𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖆𝖗𝖒, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖕𝖔𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖔 𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖗 𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖋, 𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖚𝖕𝖔𝖓 𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌." - Charles Dickens 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ Anyone else think that Scrooge could've avoided becoming such a, well... a Scrooge, by refusing to swap novels for bankers'-books? 🎁 As a schoolboy, Scrooge is enthralled by the magic of fiction; he names characters and plots like friends and memories. As a man, however, Scrooge takes his "melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern" poring over his beloved banker's-book. He continues to work as, Dickens suggests, is his daily habit. 🎁 Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' was published in 1843. It is widely credited with popularising then-new, now established, Christmas traditions that we continue to observe to this day. The Victorians were enraptured by the festivities of the season. In the C17th, Christmas was prohibited by Puritans as pagan blasphemy. With their increased wealth and dispersion of the family unit, Industrial Revolution Victorians celebrated the re-emergence of celebration! They valued the secularised message of Christmas that placed family, generosity, and indulgence at its joyous heart. 🎁 Dickens de-Christianised festive tale, with its ghostly moral messengers and rich, gothic flavour, heartily appealed to his contemporary audience... and maintains popularity to this day. 🎁 This Christmas Eve, I will be completing my current re-read and, perhaps, reading a few short ghost tales (she wrote, with unrealistic expectations). ⚜️What will you be indulging in tonight? . #achristmascarol #charlesdickens #dickens #dickensianchristmas #christmaseve #christmasread #festive #spookychristmas #spookynerd #bookstagram #bookshelf #hayonwye #richardboothsbookshop #gothic #generallygothic #gothicnovel #victoriannovel https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmi4P4Prgc6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

These are the books I’ve read in January. I’d never read anything Christmassy by Dickens so I loved that and I might make it a new Christmas tradition! Re-read Rose Daughter for the first time in a few years as we are teaching fairytale retellings at school so it fitted nicely. I had bought Red Queen years ago on kindle, but then didn’t really think it would be my cup of tea, but I loved it so much that I have ended up buying a box set of all the books! I’m aiming for 50 books read this year so 🤞. #bookstagram #booksof2021 #fairytaleretelling #redqueenseries #dickensianchristmas https://www.instagram.com/p/CKtbrghDphNhygCg2YMo9yrYg1TpCkyuzbGBr00/?igshid=1jmekll9yp7wn

Continuing on the same Dickensian Christmas theme, here’s an even rarer one: 1st Edition “The Cricket on the Hearth” by Charles Dickens with 1st State advertisement in back, missing the title “New Edition of Oliver Twist.” In original publisher’s red cloth. Hardcover, 1846. Condition notes: - Vignette title page is attached but present. Otherwise, solid binding. - Rubbing to corners. - Mild soiling of covers. - Gilt intact. - No writing apart from inside front cover $875 #dickensianchristmas #dickens #christmascarol #achristmascarol #cricketonthehearth #rarebooks #antiquarianbooks #shelfporn #bookporn #redandgold #christmasinnovember #booknerd #victorian #bibliophile #charlesdickens #englishmajorproblems https://www.instagram.com/p/CHx1P-dhMF-/?igshid=1dolg01iq2oxn