Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol to raise awareness of some of the ... A ‘stave’ is a name for the five lines on which musical notes are written, so Dickens called his chapters ‘staves ...

Learning of this vandalism was part of why I decided to write about A Christmas Carol today. As heartening as it is to think of Scrooge’s happy repentance, it reminded me that we are better ...

When Charles Dickens’ novel “A Christmas Carol” was published during Christmas week in 1843, it sold out before Christmas Eve. As a play, it is still a charmer, and Center Repertory Company ...

The first Christmas card was sold in 1843, the year "A Christmas Carol" published. The first in-store Santa appeared in Macy's department store in the 1860s. And on that U.S. trip in 1867 ...

Leeds Playhouse will stage the fresh and magical adaptation, by Yorkshire writer Deborah McAndrew, of the timeless classic, A ...

and Vaughan Williams included “Sussex Carol” in his Fantasia on Christmas Carols from 1912, even before it was published as a stand-alone carol. A festive and triumphant song, “Sussex Carol ...

Cradle-rocking as a Christmas tradition has been common in Central Europe since medieval times. This traditional Czech rocking carol was first published in 1920 under the title “Hajej ...