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  • Mirshe@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldA Christmas Carol
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    More importantly, Christmas wasn’t really a THING in England at that point. It was mostly seen as an idle, rural thing, and it hadn’t been too long ago that Christmas was banned as a practice in the UK. Dickens wrote with the intention of bringing back the Christmases he remembered of his youth to the general awareness, and it worked.