On December 19, 1843, Charles Dickens’ classic story “A
Christmas Carol” was published.

Dickens was born in 1812 and father, a clerk in the navy
pay office, was thrown into debtors’ prison in 1824, and
12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory.

The miserable treatment of children and the institution of
the debtors’ jail became topics of several of Dickens’
novels.

Charles John Huffam Dickens 
(7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)