Brief description: Advertisement for Charles Dickens's readings in London, 1858
Label: This small advertisement is for Dickens’s first professional reading tour in 1858. It lists ‘two hour performances’ in London of The Chimes, A Christmas Carol and one of his other Christmas books, Cricket on the Hearth. On these tours, A Christmas Carol was extremely popular, so much so that it was the reading he picked for his first performances and also for his last.
Collection: Object
Object number: DH529
Object type: advertisement
Production date: 1858
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Advertisement for Charles Dickens's readings in London, 1858