Charles Dickens Museum dressed for a Victorian Christmas

LONDON Dec. 6 (People's Daily Online)—— The London townhouse into which Charles Dickens moved with his growing family in 1837, now the Charles Dickens Museum, will be dressed for a beautiful celebration of a Victorian Christmas from 1 December until Twelfth Night; the historic rooms in which Dickens lived and worked while he was making his name, will be filled with all the decorations, fragrances and sounds of a 19th-century London Christmas.

As part of this year's celebrations, the Museum will present A Christmas Carol Reimagined, a new exhibition exploring the themes of perhaps Dickens’s most enduring piece of work. Written in six weeks in the winter of 1843, A Christmas Carol sold 6,000 copies in the six days between its release

and Christmas Eve that same year and has never been out of print since. The Museum's exhibition gallery will be filled with new work, created by illustration students from Central Saint Martins in response to Dickens’s tale of compassion and social awareness.

Louisa Price, Curator at the Charles Dickens Museum, said, “Charles Dickens loved celebrating Christmas, both with his family and with the many friends that would visit him at Doughty Street. His love of Christmas was slightly at odds with the general trend at the time and it is fair to say that he is responsible in quite a significant way for the revival of great public celebrations of Christmas in Britain. Christmas at the Museum has become a favourite annual fixture for many Londoners and visitors to London, as well as for all of us that work here and are able to spend so much time in Dickens’s rooms. We are always excited to invite new visitors to step into one of the most special Christmas atmospheres around, to celebrate the work of England’s greatest novelist and a very special time of the year.” (Bai Tianxing)