On James "Jemmy" Wood's death, people lined the streets of Gloucester to boo and throw stones at his coffin Charles Dickens' Scrooge may have been inspired by a miserly Gloucester banker known as ...

Scott Hutcheson teaches leadership at Purdue University. In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge begrudgingly grants his loyal clerk, Bob Cratchit, time off for Christmas ...

If they would rather die,” Charles Dickens’ most famous curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge asserts, “they had better do it, and ...

A teenager has been arrested in connection with the destruction of a gravestone created for the Charles Dickens character, Ebenezer Scrooge. It was smashed into pieces in November before being ...

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is among his ... To create Tiny Tim, the ailing young boy who’s a primary catalyst for Ebenezer Scrooge changing his miserly ways, Dickens drew on the ...

Dickens was particularly interested in the supernatural and included ghost stories in many of his other novels, including Bleak House and Nicholas Nickleby. On Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge and ...

It’s tradition. The day after Thanksgiving for the past 27 years, Joanne Meuwissen of Chanhassen hauls the Dickens Village collection from storage and then begins the happy job of ...

Made-for-television version of the Charles Dickens classic. Ebenezer Scrooge is a hard-nosed, single-minded businessman in Victorian London. He has no friends, has disowned his only living ...