books.google.com.au - To Victorian England, Dickens was Christmas. His hugely successful book A Christmas Carol was published in 1843, when he was already the most famous novelist in England. Throughout the 1850s and 1860s Dickens wrote several other Christmas books, sketches, and short stories, and the holiday plays a part...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Dickens_Christmas.html?id=fFtX209ghqUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareDickens' Christmas