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| December 17, 1847 |
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| Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) |
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Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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| by Steve King |
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When Charles Dickens read an 1843 parliamentary report on the realities of child labour in the factories of Victorian England, he wrote to one of the commissioners. His plan, he informed the commissioner, was to publish a pamphlet entitled, "An Appeal to the People of England, on behalf of the Poor Man's Child." A few days later he wrote the commissioner again to say that he had other plans: "I am not at liberty to explain them any further, just now; but rest assured that when you know them, and see what I do, and where, and how, you will certainly feel that a Sledge hammer has come down with twenty times the force -- twenty thousand times the force -- I could exert by following out my first idea ... FULL STORY »
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