SOURCE: “Thackeray on Dickens,” in Famous Reviews: Selected and Edited with Introductory Notes, by R. Brimley Johnson, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1914, pp. 469–73.
In the following review, originally published in 1844, Thackeray applauds the popular appeal of A Christmas Carol.
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