What the Dickens? Exhibition reveals novelist's spooky plagiarism scare
Author's bicentennial exhibition at British Library has material showing Victorian rival's claim to have written same ghost story
The spirits which terrorise and ultimately reform Scrooge in A Christmas Carol may have been due to a nightmare brought on, as the miser put it, by "an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese".
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 27 November, 2011
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