To Make a Better Writer — Lessons on Character Names From the Master, Dickens

Barry Ellsworth
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readDec 23, 2018

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Ebenezer Scrooge Celebrates 175th Birthday

The master, Charles Dickens. Royalty free image.

If a writer wonders what’s in a name, he or she need go no further than Charles Dickens to get the answer.

Let’s start with the English author’s seminal book “A Christmas Carol”, since December marks the 175th year of the publication.

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Barry Ellsworth’s articles have appeared in Reader’s Digest, the Toronto Star and virtually every major paper in Canada over a 30-year career in journalism.