Explore the network of courts and alleys Dickens knew so well and which he wove into his works.
A Christmas Carol is probably Charles Dickens' most famous novel. Join us on a 90 minute tour of the City of London where Ebeneezer Scrooge lived and worked. Even though the spartan offices of Scrooge and Marley are never precisely located clues are hidden in the text which help us track the business down.
Charles Dickens was prompted to write A Christmas Carol as his response to the evident evils of capitalism; but it was also an attempt to pay his ever-increasing unpaid bills. Six weeks after visiting Manchester where the fancy first occurred to him, his novella was complete. Dickens was in the event underwhelmed with the profits it generated, but his story went on to become synonymous with the modern Christmas ideal.
Learn about the social and political history of this area as reflected in Dickens' great ghost story.
