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#OTD in 1853.

Charles Dickens gives the first of his public readings of his own works, in Birmingham Town Hall (England) to the Industrial and Literary Institute, repeated three days later to an audience of working people and including an adaptation of A Christmas Carol; these are very successful and Dickens continues public readings until the year of his death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_A_Christmas_Carol

Christmas Carol at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46

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