Our Obsession with Christmas

Our Obsession with Christmas

Constant Wonder - Season 1, Episode 7 , Segment 1

S1 E7: Making the Modern Christmas

Episode: S1 E7: Making the Modern Christmas

  • Dec 20, 2021 11:00 am
  • 35:09

Charles Dickens’ young life sounds like it came straight out of "A Christmas Carol." His father was arrested and sent to debtors’ prison, and young Dickens went to work in a factory to help support the family. Learn more about the man who started the Victorian obsession with Christmas and penned the most beloved Christmas classic of all time. Guest: Lucinda Hawksley, broadcaster, lecturer, great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, author of "Dickens and Christmas"