YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CHARLES DICKENS DICKENS AND CHRISTMAS
Contrary to popular belief, Charles Dickens didn’t invent Christmas. However, by the time he sat down to write in 1843, the observing of the festive season in Britain was, at the very least, not the great festival celebrated in its medieval heyday. What the tremendous success of did - alongside Prince Albert gifting the young Queen Victoria a spruce fir for a Christmas tree three years earlier - was to both revive and reinvent the festivities inpopularity enjoyed across continental Europe, particularly in Albert’s native Germany.
