December 27 – Charles Dickens gives the first of his public readings of his own works, in Birmingham Town Hall (England) to the Industrial and Literary Institute, repeated three days later to an audience of working people and including an adaptation of A Christmas Carol; these are very successful and Dickens continues public readings until the year of his death.[4][5][6][7]
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^Genevieve Fabre; Robert O'Meally, eds. (8 December 1994). History and Memory in African-American Culture. Oxford University Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-19-802455-2.
^Alexandre Dumas (1989). La Comtesse de Charny. Editions Complexe. p. 12. ISBN 978-2-87027-316-6.
^Amaresh Datta, The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature, Volume 2, Sahitya Akademi, 2006, ISBN 978-81-260-1194-0
^Its full title is Nouvelle Biographie Générale, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources a consulter ("New General Biography, from earliest times to the present, with bibliographic information and details of sources to consult").