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Christmas Celebrations
”Then old Fezziwig stood out to dance with Mrs. Fezziwig. Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking."
~ A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (1843)
Gladden and dazzle your eyes with this intensely festive tartan of many colours! Are your holiday calendars filled with special events, music parties and ceilidhs? Or do you prefer quiet evenings at home watching or reading classic Christmas movies and stories to put you in a relaxed and serene holiday mood? Or might you have a favourite playlist of traditional Christmas carols or popular music that warms your "Bah humbug" heart? Today marks the publication of "A Christmas Carol, " Charles Dickens' yuletide ghost story of hope and redemption, originally published in London in 1843. In this classic story, bad-tempered miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by several apparitions, most notably the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, who attempt in various ways to change his perspective on Christmas and in the larger context, humanity itself! Several Christmas parties are featured: the well-attended and festive Christmas party of Scrooge's youth hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig, full of warmth and noisy music, bountiful food and drink, and vigorous dancing; while in Scrooge's present, his poor clerk, Bot Cratchit's humble celebration, is also illustrated, meager in food and presents, but rich in family love and good cheer despite poverty, illness, and other hardships. Other well- loved descriptions of Christmas memoriesinclude Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales, Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, and E.T.A. Hoffman's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. May there be warmth and comfort in whatever way you choose to enjoy or endure the holiday season. ❤️ 📙 🎄 🎁 🍾 🥃
In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly, bitter old man, is visited by three Christmas spirits on a Christmas Eve after a warning visitation by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The three spiritis, the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future offer Scrooge an opportunity to reflect back on his life and impact on others in in the past, present, and the life yet to be.
The Ghost of Christmas Past transports Scrooge back to his own youth on another Christmas Eve, when as a young apprentice he attended a festive holiday party held by Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig each year for their employees:
"There were more dances, and there were forfeits, and more dances, and there was cake, and there was negus, and there was a great piece of Cold Roast, and there was a great piece of Cold Boiled, and there were mince-pies, and plenty of beer. But the great effect of the evening came after the Roast and Boiled, when the fiddler (an artful dog, mind! The sort of man who knew his business better than you or I could have told it him!) struck up “Sir Roger de Coverley.” Then old Fezziwig stood out to dance with Mrs. Fezziwig. Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking."
This tartan design by Carol A.L. Martin was created with the warm colours of an old-fashioned and merry Christmas Party.
For the abridged text of A Christmas Carol which Charles Dickens used on his public reading tours, click the illustration of Mr. Fezziwig's Ball, for a perfect length story for a Christmas reading of one's own, beginning with the memorable first line, "Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that."
and ending with a description of a transformed Ebenezer Scrooge ...
"... and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!"