More importantly, Christmas wasn’t really a THING in England at that point. It was mostly seen as an idle, rural thing, and it hadn’t been too long ago that Christmas was banned as a practice in the UK. Dickens wrote with the intention of bringing back the Christmases he remembered of his youth to the general awareness, and it worked.
Christmas wasn’t really a THING in England at that point
??? It absolutely was a thing. A huge thing.
it hadn’t been too long ago that Christmas was banned as a practice in the UK
Christmas celebrations were banned for a 2 year period under Cromwell, almost 200 years earlier. Even then it saw huge backlash and public resistance.
Dickens wrote with the intention of bringing back the Christmases he remembered of his youth
They never went away.
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol because he was very concerned with the plight of poor people, the working class not having enough time with their families, child labour, and the wealthy keeping all their money to themselves with no regard for those below them.
I truly don’t know where you got the idea from that Christmas wasn’t a thing, that Christmas was banned shortly before, or that Christmas was a thing in Dickens’ youth but not his adulthood.
After watching “the man who invented christmas” or some such movie I also got the impression that it was elevated in the 1800s to being more than just being one of the feast days, observed by some.
Or it’s a day of family and remembrance. The story is not a contemporary one, it was written and set in Victorian times.
While still somewhat mercantile in nature, it wasn’t nearly as commercialized as it is now.
More importantly, Christmas wasn’t really a THING in England at that point. It was mostly seen as an idle, rural thing, and it hadn’t been too long ago that Christmas was banned as a practice in the UK. Dickens wrote with the intention of bringing back the Christmases he remembered of his youth to the general awareness, and it worked.
??? It absolutely was a thing. A huge thing.
Christmas celebrations were banned for a 2 year period under Cromwell, almost 200 years earlier. Even then it saw huge backlash and public resistance.
They never went away.
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol because he was very concerned with the plight of poor people, the working class not having enough time with their families, child labour, and the wealthy keeping all their money to themselves with no regard for those below them.
I truly don’t know where you got the idea from that Christmas wasn’t a thing, that Christmas was banned shortly before, or that Christmas was a thing in Dickens’ youth but not his adulthood.
After watching “the man who invented christmas” or some such movie I also got the impression that it was elevated in the 1800s to being more than just being one of the feast days, observed by some.
Definitely true. It’s what the story got appropriated as that rubs me the wrong way.