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Posted by Keara Henry on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 - 09:35
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Posted by Tess Cadman on Monday, January 30, 2023 - 19:10
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Posted by Keara Henry on Monday, January 30, 2023 - 00:01

Cornhill is one of the traditional cities of London. It was part of the city’s “main major east-west thoroughfare that divided the northern half of London from the southern half” (Jenstad). It is believed that Scrooge’s fictional creditor business was in this part of London. Dicken’s hints at this when Bob Cratchit was finally allowed to finish work and he slid up and down Cornhill 20 times in honor of it being Christmas Eve in one of the versions of A Christmas Carol.” Dicken’s is believed to have been basing Ebenezer Scrooge from a man in Cornhill named John Elwes. He was born into a wealthy family and inherited a fortune during his childhood. “Elwes refused to spend a single penny of his wealth and became notorious for the state of abject poverty in which he languished. His clothes were so ragged he’d often be mistaken for a beggar” (Lordan). Elwes also went to bed as soon as he got home to avoid the need for candles. We can see this in the...

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Posted by Tess Cadman on Sunday, January 29, 2023 - 23:00

“In honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt” (Dickens). Camden Town is the location of the Cratchit family's home in Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol. Camden is a district of northwest London, which became an important location at the time of the novella for the development of railways (“Camden Town”). It is thought that 18 Bayham Street is the exact address of the Cratchit’s house in the story, as this was where Dicken's once lived. This idea can be assumed based on Dicken's description of Bob Cratchit's walk every day to work, which is the same route that Dickens would have taken to the city as a boy ("Five Little Known Facts About "A Christmas Carol"). Camden at the time was described as a "precarious neighborhood that began to emerge in the 18th century" (Canteau). The Cratchit’s house is written as the typical low-income household of the time; four bedrooms, an open fire with no oven. Due...

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