December 19 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1843
A Christmas Carol is published
Chapman and Hall publish Dickens's A Christmas Carol -- written in six weeks and out just in time for Christmas. Scrooge, Marley, Tiny Tim: the book invents the modern Christmas. God bless us, every one!
1848
Emily Bronte dies
Emily Bronte, author of Wuthering Heights, dies of tuberculosis at Haworth aged 30 -- a year after her only novel appeared. She had refused all doctors. The wildest genius of the Brontes is gone within months of her brother Branwell.