5/21/2023 0 Comments A christmas carol first edition(Sadly, unlike his fictional counterpart, Harry Burnett did not survive – despite his uncle’s best efforts to pay doctors to save him.)īy the time Dickens travelled back to London, he knew he needed to write something monumentally important. It made him think about the realities of what life was like for impoverished disabled children, whose lives were even harder than those of their able-bodied siblings. When Dickens visited them, he was confronted by the difficulties facing his disabled nephew Harry. His older sister, Fanny, lived in Manchester with her husband, Henry Burnett, and their two sons, Harry and Charles. In October 1843, Dickens travelled to Manchester to give a speech in support of the Athenaeum, an educational charity for working men and women. The magic formula for the perfect Christmas film The surprising origins of famous Christmas carols Instead, he wanted to write something that would grab people’s attention, something to strike “a sledgehammer blow” on behalf of poor children and have “twenty thousand times the force” of a government pamphlet. The more he thought about it, however, the less impact he felt it would have. He was “stricken down” by reading the 1843 parliamentary report on Britain’s child labourers, written by pioneering doctor Thomas Southwood Smith and intended to write a pamphlet titled An Appeal to the People of England, on Behalf of the Poor Man’s Child, “with my name attached, of course”. The author was burning with desire to bring about genuine changes to society.
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