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The Man Who Invented ChristmasFilm adaptations of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

Dr Christine L. Corton, Wolfson College Cambridge

By Margaret Gillies, an early supporter of women’s suffrage. Painted in late 1843 when Dickens, aged 31, was writing A Christmas Carol, Exhibited to acclaim at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1844.

Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost (1901)

Seymour Hicks in 1913 version Seymour Hicks in 1935 version

1938 Version with Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit and Reginald Owen as Scrooge

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