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1991 Mandarin edn, introd by P. Ackroyd.
Cheltenham 1995 A Christmas carol and The cricket on the hearth,
ed F. Green.
Reviews
Union Mag Feb 1846; Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly 12 Dec 1846;
[Thackeray, W. M.] A grumble about the Christmas books,
Fraser’s Mag Jan 1847; The Times 25 Dec 1847; Fraser’s Mag 43
1851; Literary World 24 Dec 1869.
Studies and appreciations
[Fitzgerald, P.] Charles Dickens in relation to Christmas. Graphic
Christmas No 25 Dec 1870.
Dorr, J. C. R. Christmas and its literature. Book Buyer 2 1885.
Kitton, F. G. Some famous Christmas stories. Lib Rev Jan 1893.
Dickens, C., the younger. The Christmas books of Charles Dickens.
Good Cheer 1895.
Hadden, J. C. Christmas with Dickens. Family Friend 35 1904.
Van Noorden, C. Charles Dickens and the spirit of Christmas. Eng
Illus Mag Dec 1904.
Ley, J. W. T. The apostle of Christmas. Dickensian 2 1906.
The Christmas books of Charles Dickens. Young Man Dec 1907.
Stewart, R. L. The Christmas spirit of Dickens. Dickensian 3 1907.
Watts-Dunton, T. Dickens and Father Christmas. A Yule-tide appeal
for the babes of Famine Street. Nineteenth Cent and After 62
1907.
Frith, J. C. Dickens’s Christmas tales. Book Monthly Dec 1919.
A Christmas carol
A Christmas carol, in prose: being a ghost story of Christmas, with
illustrations by John Leech. 1843. The variants of the title page
and endpapers of the ‘first issue’ are a matter of controversy. See J.
C. Eckel 1932 under Bibliographies and reference works, above; C.
J. Sawyer and F. J. H. Darton, English books vol 2, 1927, ch 7;
Bookman (London) Dec 1931; TLS 14, 28 Jan 1932. The ms is in the
Pierpont Morgan Lib.
Bibliographies
Newton, A. E. The greatest book in the world. Atlantic Monthly 132
1923. Rptd in The greatest little book in the world and other
papers, Boston 1925.
Osborne, E. A. The facts about A Christmas carol. 1937.
Rust, S. J. At the Dickens House. Legal documents relating to the
piracy of A Christmas carol. Dickensian 34 1938.
Newton, A. E. Rare books, manuscripts etc collected by the late A.
Edward Newton. Parke-Bernet Galleries, 3 vols New York 1941.
Proof-sheets of A Christmas carol in vol 1.
Calhoun, P. and H. J. Heaney. Dickens’s Christmas carol after a
hundred years: a study in bibliographical evidence. PBSA 39 1945.
Butt, J. A Christmas carol: its origin and design. Dickensian 51 1955.
Gimbel, R. The earliest state of the first edition of Dickens’ A
Christmas carol. Princeton Univ Lib Chron 19 1958.
Todd, W. B. A Christmas carol. BC 10 1961.
Davis, P. The lives and times of Ebeneezer Scrooge. New Haven CT
1990.
Mortimer, J. Poorhouse, pamphlets and Marley’s Ghost. New York
Times 24 Dec 1993. Discovery of original ms of Christmas carol.
Separate editions
A Christmas carol in prose. Leipzig 1843, 1847 Tauchnitz Collection
of British Authors edn (unnumbered).
New York 1844.
Philadelphia 1844.
Paris 1844.
1858 Cheap edn.
Boston 1871, notes by A. J. Demarest.
1877 Household edn, illustr F. Barnard.
New York 1882, ed A. F. Blaisdell.
Leipzig 1888 Tauchnitz Cabinet edn of Eng classics.
1890, 1897. A Christmas carol. Facs of original ms, introd by F. G.
Kitton.
Groningen 1901 (in English), with notes by K. ten Bruggencate.
1907, introd by W. P. Treloar, illustr J. Leech and F. Barnard.
1912, introd by C. Shorter, illustr C. Green.
Leipzig 1916 Tauchnitz Pocket Lib edn.
1922 facs of second edn (not first, as claimed), introd by G. K.
Chesterton, preface by B. W. Matz.
New York 1924, introd by J. W. McSpadden, illustr E. F. Everett.
Boston 1934, introd by S. Leacock, illustr G. Ross.
Philadelphia 1938, introd by L. Barrymore, illustr E. Shinn.
New York 1956, 1967, facs of first edn, introd by E. Johnson.
New York 1963, afterword by C. Fadiman, illustr J. Groth.
New York 1966 Bantam Pathfinder edn, notes, background material
and ed H. E. Vittum.
New York 1967. Facs of ms, text of first edn, with preface by F. B.
Adams, jr, introd by M. Dickens.
New York 1976. The annotated Christmas carol, ed with introd,
notes and bibliography by M. P. Hearn.
Louisville KY 1977 Braille edn.
New Haven CT 1993, facs of autograph ms, introd by J. Mortimer.
1994 Longman edn, ed G. Barton.
1995 Reader’s Digest edn, illustr A. Rackham, R. Buchanan and B.
Buchanan, afterword by A. Newton.
Kansas City 1995 Hallmark Cards edn, ed C. Marsh, illustr G. Head.
New York 1996, afterword by P. Glassman.
Dickens’s reading version
A Christmas carol reading edition. 1857, rev Boston 1868, Paderborn
1980. Rptd in collections 1907, 1975, 1983. See Readings, below.
A Christmas carol: the public reading version. New York 1971. Facs
of Dickens’s prompt-copy, introd and notes by P. Collins.
Imitations
[Hewitt, H.] A Christmas ghost story. 1844 (Peter Parley’s Lib).
Plagiarisation.
[Swepstone, W. M.] Christmas shadows. A tale of the times. 1850.
Alger, H., jr. Job Warner’s Christmas. Harper’s New Monthly Mag 28
1863.
Harte, F. B. The haunted man: a Christmas story, by Ch-r- -s
D-c-k-n-s. [1865]. In his Condensed novels, New York 1867. Parody
of A Christmas carol.
A., F. The final stave of A Christmas carol. Punch 129 1905.
Waterhouse, K. The Cratchit factor. Punch 275 1978.
Dramatisations
See Bolton 1987 under Studies and bibliographies of adaptations,
below.
Stirling, E. A. Christmas carol; or, past, present and future. 1844.
Webb, C. A Christmas carol; or Scrooge the miser’s dream. 1844.
Barnett, C. Z. A Christmas carol; or, the miser’s warning. 1844.
Cooper, F. F. A Christmas carol. 1854.
Taylor, T. A Christmas carol. 1860.
Buckstone, J. C. Scrooge. 1901.
Scrooge. Film 1901. Produceed by R. W. Paul. Directed by W. R.
Booth.
A Christmas carol. Film, Essanay 1908.
A Christmas carol. Film 1910. Directed by T. A. Edison.
Scrooge. Film, Hepworth 1913.
A Christmas carol. Film 1914. Written and directed by H. Shaw.
The right to be happy. Film 1916. Script by E. J. Clawson. Directed by
R. Julian.
Scrooge. Film, Paramount 1935. Script by H. F. Mear. Directed by H.
Edwards. With S. Hicks as Scrooge.
A Christmas carol. Film, MGM 1938. Script by H. Butler. Directed by
E. L. Marin.