The very first pictures of Ebenezer Scrooge

[Still Waters]

The first Scrooge

How the world’s best-known miser was brought to life.

“Scrooge is utterly memorable. He is loathed and loved.

His name is dropped into conversation so regularly - yet many people have never read the story in which he first appears.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_first_scrooge

[+Hammerclaw]

I've read it every year since childhood and watch the Alistair Sims movie version every Christmas. Much of the literate class in America in that era were Anglophiles. This story, as well as Prince Albert's Christmas Tree, profoundly influenced and moderated  American's Puritanical disdain for Christmas celebration and their subsequent adoption of it as a holiday of special significance. In short, it taught them to keep Christmas, well.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

Christ, if you thought the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come was scary beforejust look st the original illustration .... *shudder*