CHARLES DICKENS
Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. (More from Wikipedia)
If there is anyone more left-field than Tiny Tim, I don’t know who it might be. He is named of course after the crippled child at the heart of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This story, more than any other single thing, brought about modern Christmas celebrations worldwide (it had become a minor Christian holiday previously over the centuries).
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