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The premise of "Mr. Dickens and His Carol," in which Charles Dickens descends into a Scroogeish funk and then has his faith in humanity restored, is a bit questionable. His wife calls for "a break" at Christmastime and heads to Scotland with the children; left to his own bachelor devices, he finds a new muse in a lovely young girl of the theater. This mirrors his (apparent) affair with Ellen Tiernan IRL so closely--an affair for which he dumped his wife and attempted to have her locked up in a m
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Nov 03, 2018
Sarah
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Dec 23, 2017
Kristin Florsch
marked it as to-read
