Christmas and Charles Dickens have gone together at least since the wonderful Dingley Dell chapters of "The Pickwick Papers," while a somewhat later book, the one with "Carol" in the title, is now as integral to the holiday as Handel's "Messiah" and last-minute shopping. Biographers have recorded that in the Dickens household, the novelist — "the Inimitable," as he was grandiosely called — regularly made a great production of the season between Christmas and Twelfth Night, packing the evenings with lavish dinners and private theatricals, the latter featuring the writer's children.
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