Monday 7 January 2013

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A group of youngsters Saturday afternoon at the Madison County Public Library in Richmond learned some interesting facts about how Dickens changed our culture and also enjoyed seeing a few magic tricks.

Although he doesn’t try to portray the novelist best known for creating the characters of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit in his “Christmas Carol,” Don Miller of Indianapolis was dressed as a mid-19th century English gentleman for his library presentation.

He told the children how at age 12, Charles Dickens had to leave school and go to work in a factory for a year because his parents and six of his siblings were sent to a debtor’s prison. Although Dickens was deprived of a formal education, the novelist drew on the hardships and injustices of his childhood when he wrote.

In addition to helping turn Christmas into a time for charity, Dickens also was behind the drive to end child labor in England.

Miller said in Dickens’ day, his clothes would have been made of heavy wool because many places, including bedrooms, were not heated then. Kitchens and perhaps living rooms were the only warm rooms in homes during the winter. The factory where young Dickens worked 10-hour days was unheated.

The program wasn’t simply a history lesson, however. Miller called on members of his young audience to assist him as he performed some of the same tricks Dickens did in his public appearances. They could be assured Dickens had done those tricks, Miller said, because people who attended his shows wrote descriptions of them in letters to friends.

Writing letters to friends was “an early form of texting,” he told the children

As he spoke and performed, Miller stood in front of a portable fireplace and mantel that contained volumes of Dickens’ books printed in the mid-19th century.

He also told the children about a couple, Al and Vickie, who lived in London when Dickens was writing. They introduced the Christmas tree to England from Al’s native Germany. They were Prince Albert and Queen Victoria who also changed how people throughout the English-speaking world still celebrate Christmas. The queen became of of Dickens’ biggest fans.

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