The Christmas Plains by Bottum Joseph

The Christmas Plains by Bottum Joseph

Author:Bottum, Joseph [Bottum, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780770437664
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2012-10-23T00:00:00+00:00


The party rose “to something not unlike the rape of the Sabines!” and then Dickens carried Forster and Thackeray off to his house “to finish the night there and a royal night they would have of it I fancy!” But Jane Carlyle went home instead to sleep—and sleep and sleep, her first healthy night in what felt to her like years.

There’s some deep reflection in that scene, an image for the age in which they lived—and maybe an image for Christmas itself: The mad Victorian extrovert Charles Dickens, his best-known story just finished, gathering up everyone around him and animating them like puppets with his own Christmas energy. And in it, the mad Victorian introvert Jane Carlyle at last finding peace.



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