Ebeneezer Scrooge Might Have Been Based On These Real People

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” was first published today in 1843. The character of Ebeneezer Scrooge is said to be based on a real life person, though which person it was that inspired the story depends on who’s telling the story. Plus: what exactly was it that Scrooge had for his Christmas Eve dinner?

Campaign To Honour Real-Life Ebenezer Scrooge John Elwes (Huffington Post)

Revealed: the Scot who inspired Dickens' Scrooge (The Scotsman)

What Scrooge Ate on Christmas Eve: Folk Belief, Folk Medicine, and Foodways in Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” (Library of Congress)

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