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What a lesser-known Charles Dickens Christmas story teaches about loss

By Spencer Klavan
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What a lesser-known Charles Dickens Christmas story teaches about loss

In 1848, Charles Dickens’s sister Fanny died of consumption. It was a pitiable end, right out of Dickens’s own novels. Talented and gentle Fanny, bright star of her brother’s youth, would soon be followed into death by her sickly child Henry.

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