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The London Library Christmas card is now on sale! The card features a design of a Christmas tree being dressed in the Reading Room by illustrator @tomgauld. 8 cards and envelopes cost £8 including postage, buy online and support the Library https://t.co/CwKZP29Nyj
#CharlesDickens' classic "A Christmas Carol" was first published #onthisday 1843, two years after Dickens joined @TheLondonLib as a founder member.
Here's our 1845 edition of a much-loved classic:
#CharlesDickens' classic "A Christmas Carol" is 175 years old today!!
The Christmas tale that has captured imaginations from the minute it first appeared was published #onthisday 1843, two years after Dickens joined @TheLondonLib as a founder member.
Here's our 1845 edition.
Happy birthday Scrooge, Marley, one and all! "A Christmas Carol" - the Christmas tale that has captured imaginations ever since - was first published #onthisday 1843, two years after its author, #CharlesDickens, joined @TheLondonLib as a founder member. Here's our 1845 edition:
The remarkable #GeorgeEliot (real name Mary Ann Evans) was born #onthisday 1819. 40 years later - by which time she had just started to become a regular @TheLondonLib - her first novel, #AdamBede appeared. Here's our 1859 copy: