Biblioventures Monsters and Ghosts A Christmas Carol Ep 2

Ep. 2: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Stave Two

The Ghost of Christmas Past pays Scrooge a late night visit and they time-travel to Ebenezer’s lonely days as a child at school and lively times as an apprentice clerk watching Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig dance the “Sir Roger de Coverley” at their Christmas party. Max Magee will be our cohost. His bio can be found on our Biblioventures homepage:
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Drinking Like Dickens
Negus
Named for Col. Francis Negus in the 18th Century (he prevented a brawl between Whigs and Tories by concocting the beverage on the spot), negus makes an appearance in many Dickens novels (The Pickwick Papers, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend and Bleak House), including A Christmas Carol at the Fezziwig Ball.
1 bottle port
1 pint boiling water
1 lemon
sugar
nutmeg
Add the boiling water to the port and juice of lemon. Add sugar to taste. Top with nutmeg.

Biblioventures: Monsters and Ghosts is brought to you from the Rosenbach Museum & Library
Music by Pleated Gazelle
Artwork and Credits by Scott Banks
Inspiration from Charles Dickens

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Join us on a new Biblioventure with two six-part series of haunted works of the nineteenth century: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. First, we’ll investigate Stevenson’s gothic masterpiece about a gentleman doctor whose strange experiments to eradicate the evil impulses of all mankind lead to the creation of a brutal monster. Then, we’ll explore Dickens’s ghostly tale of a man haunted by not just spirits, but also his own past and future yet to come. Host Edward G. Pettit and a rotating group of cohosts (scroll down to meet our cohosts) will have a conversational annotation each week, providing context and insight about the authors and their characters, and showcasing remarkable Rosenbach collection objects along the way, including our first editions of both featured novels. Every week will also feature a signature cocktail, recipes shared a week before each episode.

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