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How Did Charles Dickens Spread Victorian Christmas? In The Year 1843, Charles Dickens wrote and published A Christmas Carol. His Reasoning Behind writing this book was to Spread the idea of a Victorian Christmas. At this time, Victorian Christmas was not important to most Victorians but due to A Christmas Carol, it became popularized. Charles’ Book helped embrace what victorian Christmas truly was, a time to spend with your family. It also helped with the middle class and higher class help the poor out with their money. At first, the Higher Class thought giving money to the poor was insane, but over time, the Middle class persuaded the Higher Class to do the same as them. These acts also encouraged factories of Victorian London to give people Christmas day and Boxing Day off (Boxing Day is the 26th of December).