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Special Christmas Movie Club: The Man Who Invented Christmas
The year is 1843 and Charles Dickens is in a commercial slump - his previous three novels have found little favor with the buying public - and he is in need of money in order to help support himself, his loyal wife Catherine, their four children, and an expensive home renovation. While casting about for ideas for a new book, he takes inspiration from his new Irish maid Tara, whose literary tastes are of a somewhat lurid bent (she is a big “Varney the Vampire” fan), and who mentions to him a folk tale about mysterious spirits being revived at Christmastime. This sparks something in Dickens and he decides that he will write and self-publish his own holiday-themed ghost story in time for Christmas as a way of replenishing his coffers.
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