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Charles Dickens has had more influence on the way that we celebrate Christmas today than
any other individual in human history.
At the beginning of the Victorian period the celebration of Christmas was in decline.
The Industrial Revolution gave workers little time for the celebration of Christmas.
The revival of Christmas traditions that occurred at that time had other contributors: Prince
Albert brought the German custom of decorating the Christmas tree to England, the singing of
Christmas carols reappeared, and the first Christmas card appeared in the 1840's. But it was
the Christmas stories of Dickens, particularly his masterpiece A Christmas Carol, that
rekindled the joy of Christmas.
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Dickens's name had become so synonymous with Christmas that on hearing of his death a
little girl in London asked, “Mr. Dickens dead? Then will father Christmas die tof”
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