Historian claims Jacob Marley based on real man that the author met, with passages and descriptions also rooted in the county
Jacob Marley, one of the best-known characters in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, was by all accounts a selfish and greedy man who died with only one friend in the world, his business partner Ebenezer Scrooge.
Now a historian has claimed the character, who comes back as a ghost to visit Scrooge and teach him the error of his ways, was actually inspired by a real man whom Dickens had met and had promised to make him a household name.
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