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WHO was the inspiration for Scrooge? There is a story that Dickens was exploring a graveyard in Edinburgh in 1841 when he saw a memorial to a man called Ebenezer Scroggie.
He was struck by the name, but even more by a description of the deceased that suggested he had been a "mean man."See the full content of this document
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The Tale of Ebenezer Scroggie ...
When Dickens wrote his book two years later...
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