![]() “I have seldom seen”, he wrote to Bourdett-Coutts, “in all the strange and dreadful things I have seen in London and elsewhere, anything so shocking as the dire neglect of soul and body exhibited in these children” (Mackenzie, Dickens, pp. But he was shocked by what he saw at Saffron Hill. The author, having experienced poverty and child labour himself, was deeply concerned with its elimination, and believed that education was an important way to achieve this. Bourdett-Coutts had been asked donate to them, and she requested that Dickens visit the school at Saffron Hill and report back to her. In February of 1843, Charles Dickens and his friend the Baroness Burdett-Coutts became interested in the Ragged Schools, a system of religiously-inspired schools for the poorest children in Britain. Dickens wrote four other Christmas books in the years following, yet none of them had the same impact. It has inspired hundreds of stage and film adaptations and has influenced the way people around the world view Christmas. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was a bestseller when it was published in 1843, and has never been out of print. ![]() ![]() It may be the most loved Christmas Story ever written. ![]()
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