November 3, 2017 through January 14, 2018
This exhibition explores the personal and socio-political sources of inspiration for A Christmas Carol, Dickens’s method of composition, and the motivations behind writing one of the most famous, enduring, and widely adapted stories in all of literature.
Robert Hindry Mason, Charles Dickens,1863, albumen print. The Morgan Library & Museum; Purchased for the The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2011, MA 7794.