Item Info

Accession Number: 64-0915
Physical Description: 46 pages
Material: Handwritten manuscript on paper
Media Type: Manuscripts
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

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This item appeared in the exhibition "Sacred Stories: The World's Religious Traditions" in the Rare Book Department, August 2015-January 2016.

This is the label from that exhibition:

Charles Dickens wrote his own version of the life of Jesus, which he read to his children each Christmas. Though it was never intended for publication, it finally appeared under the title The Life of Our Lord in the Daily Mail in 1933 after the death of his last surviving child, Henry Fielding Dickens.  

Notes:

Dickens wrote his own version of the life of Jesus of Nazareth which he read to his children each Christmas. He did not intend it to be published, and left explicit instructions that it not be. It was finally published, with some fanfare, in the Daily Mail, after the death of his last surviving child, Henry Fielding Dickens, in 1933, under the title The Life of Our Lord.  It reads much more like a typical 19^th-century book for children than like a work by Charles Dickens.  The manuscript was auctioned at Sotheby’s, London for the Dickens heirs in 1939, purchased by A. S. W. Rosenbach, and eventually bought for the Free Library by the Benoliel family, in memory of D. Jacques Benoliel.

Provenance: "Anonymous" gift, 1964

Creation Year: 1846
Call Number: DMS L626o
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author