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Did Charles Dickens steal his ghost from the Romans?

A ghost in clanking chains is an image indelibly linked with A Christmas Carol. Now a historian claims that Charles Dickens lifted the description of Marley s ghost from a story written 1700 years earlier by Pliny the Younger. Daisy Dunn, who has written a biography of the Roman senator, explains here for The Daily Telegraph how she was struck by the similarity between Dickens s description of hearing the ghost, and a passage in Pliny s tale of Athenodorus. She found that Dickens owned a book, The Philosophy of Mystery, by W C Dendy. Published in 1841, two years before A Christmas Carol, it featured Pliny s ghost story.

Did a terrifying Roman ghost story inspire Charles Dickens to write A Christmas Carol?

The great Victorian author may have taken Marley and the three spirits from ideas in Classical writings 22 December 2020 • 6:00am Reginald Owen s Scrooge meets Leo Carroll s ghostly Morley in the 1938 film version of A Christmas Carol Credit: Everett A ghost in clanking chains is an image indelibly linked with A Christmas Carol . Now a historian claims that Charles Dickens lifted the description of Marley’s ghost from a story written 1,700 years earlier by Pliny the Younger. Daisy Dunn, who has written a biography of the Roman senator, explains here for The Telegraph how she was struck by the similarity between Dickens’s description of hearing the ghost, and a passage in Pliny’s tale of Athenodorus.

Rolf Standfuss: Please wear a mask | West Central Tribune

Rolf Standfuss: Please wear a mask If we don’t comply it will be up to our Federal and State governments to enforce more restrictions and I don’t think people would like that. Written By: Rolf Standfuss | × Reader Opinion letterPaula Pandey Chhetri / Forum Design Center I have finally had enough of the stores in Willmar that have lowered their standards for wearing masks or not enforcing mask-wearing at all. Don’t you think it is time to wear a mask, people? I first must commend Menards for stationing a person, at their entrance, telling patrons they must wear or purchase a mask to shop there. Home Depot has done the same but certainly not consistently.

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