Origin of WHITE Christmas
Dickens “grew up during the coldest decade England has seen since the 1690s and his short stories and A Christmas Carol seem to owe much to his impressionable years”, writes anthropologist Brian Fagan in his book The Little Ice Age.
It was so icy during Dickens’s early years that the River Thames froze in February of 1814....
Dickens “grew up during the coldest decade England has seen since the 1690s and his short stories and A Christmas Carol seem to owe much to his impressionable years”, writes anthropologist Brian Fagan in his book The Little Ice Age.
It was so icy during Dickens’s early years that the River Thames froze in February of 1814....
London celebrated its final Thames frost fair that year, which included people setting up tents on the ice for four days and an elephant being led across the river just below Blackfriars Bridge. For the young Dickens, who was born in 1812, Christmas must have been a bitterly cold experience.
The snowy Christmas fantasy from the great Christmas Carol author.
Years later, when Dickens sat down to write his novels and short stories, the author populated them with his memories of what Christmas looked like back then.
Years later, when Dickens sat down to write his novels and short stories, the author populated them with his memories of what Christmas looked like back then.
“In view of the fact that Dickens can be said to have almost singlehandedly created the modern idea of Christmas,” “it is interesting to note that in fact during the first eight years of his life there was a White Christmas every year; so sometimes reality does actually exist before the idealised image.”
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Ortiz is a science and climate change reporter.
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Ortiz is a science and climate change reporter.
