Mill Talk: The Charles Dickens Lecture

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Charles Dickens was renowned for his lectures, as well as his books. This holiday season, join us for Mr. Dickens’ newest lecture, streamed live from Main Gallery of the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation, located in the last boiler house of Francis Cabot Lowell’s first textile mill.
Mr. Dickens, portrayed by educator and Shakespearean actor J.T. Turner, will share historically accurate musings on his life, his work, and his love of Christmas. He will discuss his February 1842 visit to one of the Waltham team’s later mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, and the contrasts with Dickens’ less flattering observations of other parts of America, and with the misery he witnessed in the treatment and experience of England’s working class.
It is the latter that, in part, inspired his most beloved work, “A Christmas Carol.” Dickens will share passages from A Christmas Carol and other works to illuminate his life story and philosophies.

[@bellringer929]

I'm also transfixed like Pointer😂 how well you read!

[@ssake1_IAL_Research]

57:40 This assumes that Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol." I've discovered, after 15 years of intensive independent research, that he was not the original author. Rather, I've concluded that it was written by an American couple named Mathew Franklin Whittier and Abby Poyen Whittier, in 1838-39. According to the scenario I've extrapolated from the evidence, Mathew would have handed the manuscript to Dickens in Boston, in Jan. 1842 (Dickens acknowledged a letter from him not long afterwards, while still on his tour). In the fall of 1843, Dickens was in serious financial trouble, and neede some quick cash. He conceived what he privately referred to as a "little scheme," which was to hurriedly secularize and sensational Mathew and Abby's spiritualist redemption novella, into a "Ghost Story of Christmas."

[@scottmemberg]

Wonderful Job!

[@bellringer929]

I also improve greatly on acquaintance, if it's distant and brief 😁🤣

[@bellringer929]

You need not be ashamed of your impersonation 😝 only kidding, it is amazing, almost forgot that you weren't Dickens..😍