The Five Christmas Books, and the Christmas Stories published in Periodicals
- 17 December 1843: A Christmas Carol (Chapman and Hall)
- 16 December 1844: The Chimes (Bradbury and Evans)
- 20 December 1845: The Cricket on the Hearth
- 19 December 1846: The Battle of Life
- 19 December 1848: The Haunted Man (series concluded).
- December 1852-66: Christmas Stories.
General
- The Costuming and Set Design of Plays Adapted from Dickens's Christmas Books: Realisations of the Illustrations
- Review of Robert L. Patten's Dickens, Death, and Christmas (2023)
Discussions of A Christmas Carol
- An Introduction
- Dickens's Childhood Experiences and A Christmas Carol — An Introduction with Discussion Questions
- The Silent Reception of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol in America, 1844
- Illustrations of A Christmas Carol
- Sympathy and the Spirit of Capitalism in Dickens's A Christmas Carol
- The Naming of Names in A Christmas Carol
- Scrooge
- Bad or Mad? A Speculative Interpretation of Scrooge’s Mental Illness
- Dickens’s Consumptive Urbanity: Consumption (Tuberculosis) through the Prism of Sensibility
- Sympathy for the Poor and Christmas Present — An Introduction with Discussion Questions
- Sentimentality: The Victorian Failing
- Three Contemporary Responses in The Illustrated London News
- Washington Irving and Dickens's A Christmas Carol
- Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol: A CBC Radio Interview
- A John Leech Illustration for A Christmas Carol — Reading and Discussion Questions
- Cinematic Adaptations of Dickens's A Christmas Carol — An Introduction with Discussion Questions
- Adapting A Christmas Carol for the stage — An Introduction with Discussion Questions
- Jeers, Slang, and Christmas — Some Discussion Questions
- Dickens, "the man who invented Christmas"
- Vocabulary Notes forA Christmas Carol
- Six Collaborative Exercises and Discussion Passages: One — Two — Three — Four — Five — Six
- Recent editions particularly useful for students and scholars
- Cinematic Adaptations of A Christmas Carol, 1908-2009
- Dickens, Death, and Christmas (2023): Robert L. Patten on A Christmas Carol
Discussions of The Chimes
- The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out and a New Year In
- "The "Forgotten" Christmas Book, The Chimes (1844): Novella and Dramatic Adaptation
- The Chimes Reviewed: The Response of The Illustrated London News (1844)
- The Chimes Illustrated: Ten Woodcuts and Two Steel Engravings
- The Last of the Illustrations for The Chimes (1844)
- Trotty Veck in twentieth-century advertisements
- Dramas from The Chimes (1845 to 1920)
- Prologue to Mark Lemon and G. A. a'Beckett's Adaptation of The Chimes
- Scene from The Chimes, at the Adelphi Theatre
Discussions of The Haunted Man
- The Last of Dickens's Five Christmas Books: The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain (1848)
- Moloch in The Haunted Man
Discussion of The Christmas Stories
Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life: A Love Story. Illustrated by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, and John Leech. London: Chapman and Hall, 1846.
_____. A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by John Leech. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843.
_____. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year out and a New Year in. Illustrated by John Leech, Richard Doyle, Daniel Maclise, and Clarkson Stanfield. Charles Dickens: The Christmas Books. Intro. and notes by Michael Slater. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1971. Rpt., 1978. Vol. 1: 137-266.
_____. The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home. Illustrated by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846.
_____. The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. Illustrated by John Leech, Frank Stone, John Tenniel, and Clarkson Stanfield. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
_____. The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. Illustrated by John Leech, Frank Stone, John Tenniel, and Clarkson Stanfield. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. Rpt. in Charles Dickens's Christmas Books, ed. Michael Slater. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971, rpt. 1978. II, 235-362, 365-366.
Patten, Robert L. Dickens, Death, and Christmas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
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