A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens

Correction, editorial commentary, and markup by Students and Staff at the University of Virginia, Christiana Ogbolu, Tonya Howe

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Sources

London : Chapman & Hall, 1843Our edition is adapted from the Project Gutenberg edition, prepared by Jose Menendez and David Widger. It is compared and corrected according to the HathiTrust and Internet Archive versions, noted below, . Online: The Internet Archive, Page images for this digital edition, including the original illustrations by John Leech, are drawn from The Internet Archive's facsimile of the 1843 edition, which seems to the third issue, according to the HathiTrust copy from McGill University, which has the same pagination and printer's note (Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars) following the title page.Online: The Morgan Library and Museum, Dickens's manuscript of A Christmas Carol is in The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York. A digitized version of the manuscript is available on their website.

Editorial Statements

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Original spelling and capitalization is retained, though the long s has been silently modernized and ligatured forms are not encoded.

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Citation

Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol, Chapman & Hall, 1843 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthologydev.lib.virginia.edu/work/Dickens/dickens-christmas-carol. Accessed: 2025-12-10T07:23:28.286Z