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By John O’Neill Columnist Charles Dickens, the greatest writer of the Victorian Era, became synonymous with Christmas 180 years ago. It was in December 1843 when Dickens wrote and published A Christmas Carol, the timeless tale of the conversion of Ebenezer Scrooge from an avaricious miser who disdains Christmas into a charitable and giving man […]