Christmas at the London home of Charles Dickens
The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London, UK.
Press photocall
18th November 2024
Putting the decorations on Charles Dickens’ Christmas Tree
Charles Dickens Museum at 48 Doughty Street is imbued with an extra glow of warmth and cosiness, as the home in which Dickens and his family celebrated Christmas is decorated in authentic Victorian-style.
Special events, live performances, tours and a twinkly Christmas Eve will make the Museum the place to experience the enduring traditions of a London Christmas.
48 Doughty Street was the address where Charles Dickens (1812-1870) wrote the stories that made him an international superstar. When Dickens and his young family moved into the house in the 1830s, he was a budding author, unknown to most, but by the time the family left, Dickens was world famous, having written a trio of wildly successful novels - The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby – in his study at home.
A definite highlight at the Museum this year will be the remarkable live performances of Dickens’s Christmas stories by James Swanton; already well-known to Museum visitors, James made an unforgettable appearance before BBC TV viewers last Christmas as the Mummy in Mark Gatiss’s ghost story adaptation, Lot No. 249.
On Tuesday 19 December 1843, the first copies of perhaps the most loved of all of the tales by Charles Dickens - undoubtedly one of the greatest of all Christmas stories - were released to the public. In the next six days, leading up to Christmas Eve, A Christmas Carol completely sold out. The book has remained in print ever since, continues to gather admirers and remains closely associated with celebrations of Christmas in the 21st century.
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