“From his early short essay ‘A Christmas Dinner’ in Sketches by Boz (1836) to his incomplete ï¬nal novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), in which an uncle appears to have murdered his nephew on Christmas Day, Christmas is sunk into his imagination like a watermark. … [And some friends] observed that Dickens’s enjoyment of […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM on December 21, 2018