![]() ![]() In front of audiences, the internationally-adored British author wouldn't just recite his words, he’d bring them passionately to life. Some people muse its Charles Dickens’ spirit beckoning people up to the third floor where he stayed on his last reading tour of the U.S. 1 elevator has been rung to the third floor, it opens, and there's nobody there,” she explained. “What happens periodically is that the No. The hotel's historian Susan Wilson was eager to show me what’s thought to be a haunted elevator. The ornate lobby was extra-decked out with twinkling holiday lights and evergreens. So I headed to the Omni Parker House, a storied Boston hotel where Dickens stayed in 1867 and '68. Which got us thinking: Why does the miserly curmudgeon’s journey still hit us where we live today? The door of the room Charles Dickens stayed in at the Parker House in 1867. ![]() Turns out, author Charles Dickens performed his classic redemption tale himself right here in Boston 150 years ago. Ebenezer Scrooge spoke them first on the pages of "A Christmas Carol" 175 years ago. ![]() (Jesse Costa/WBUR) This article is more than 4 years old.įrom Alastair Sim to Jim Carrey, countless actors have grumbled those iconic words in the movies and on stage over the decades. Historian Susan Wilson places her hand on a bust of Charles Dickens at the Omni Parker House, where he stayed in during his visit to Boston in 1867. ![]()
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