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A Christmas Carol, in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

A Christmas Carol, in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (London: Chapman & Hall, December 1843) Inferred

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) · London: Chapman & Hall, December 1843

InferredFuller's reference to "making the poor happy by distribution of turkey and plum-pudding" alludes to Scrooge's reformation in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843, Stave 5). While Fuller names Dickens directly, the specific work is inferred from this quotation.

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New-York Daily Tribune

“First of January” · January 1, 1846, January 1846 · p. 1

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“How often is it that the rich man thinks even of that proposed by Dickens as the noblest employment of the season, making the poor happy in the way he likes "best for himself, by distribution of turkey and plum-pudding!”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.

Inferred Fuller's reference to "making the poor happy by distribution of turkey and plum-pudding" alludes to Scrooge's reformation in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843, Stave 5). While Fuller names Dickens directly, the specific work is inferred from this quotation.