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“Through my research, I learned that he used to talk about his characters as though they were what he called ‘the children of his fancy,'” said Coyne. What is somewhat surprising is that Dickens did see his characters appear before him as though they were real, fully-formed human beings - as seen in the movie with his creations such as Scrooge (portrayed by Christopher Plummer) and Tiny Tim. I would go far as to say that, in a way, Ebenezer Scrooge is a direct manifestation from Dickens’ fraught relationship with his father.” “It’s impossible to miss the correspondences between the plot of A Christmas Carol and Dickens’ relationship with his family and father. “I don’t know if that literal exchange took place, but I do think Dickens eventually made peace with his father,” said Standiford. “The tour was a resounding success for all,” said Standiford.Īdditionally, it is unclear whether Dickens ever threw his seemingly incorrigible father out of the family home, as seen in the movie. for a reading tour in the late 1860s, following the enormous popularity of A Christmas Carol overseas. “However, when he got over there, he found it far rougher than he was used to in England.”ĭespite the failure of his first tour, Dickens returned to the U.S. tour he knew that he had thousands of American readers and an appetite for his books was very lively,” said Standiford. in the early 1840s, on the back of the success of novels such as Oliver Twist, did not go so well. However, as The Man Who Invented Christmas lightly touches upon, Dickens’ tour of the U.S. “He even went on to write four more Christmas books but none were even nearly as successful as A Christmas Carol.”Īs the movie explores, Dickens was not only popular in Britain but in the United States too, which is why A Christmas Carol generated excitement over the festival across the pond too. “Dickens had no notion of what the festival would become today, but he was clearly onto something,” Les Standiford, who wrote the book on which the movie is based, told TIME. The publication and instant popularity of A Christmas Carol became part of a series of factors that helped raise Christmas’ status over the course of that decade.