A Christmas Carol

The cast

• Ebenezer Scrooge (p 46, 66, 124)
• Scrooge's clerk (whose name we finally learn on p 93) Bob Crachit
• Scrooge's nephew Fred (p 47, 102) and wife
• Two portly gentlemen (collecting for charity) (p 50, 130)
• Jacob Marley's ghost (p 57) (Scrooge's partner who died seven years ago)
• The ghost of Christmas past (p 69)
• Scrooge's younger sister little Fan (p 73) who died leaving a child, Scrooge's nephew
• Mr Fezziwig (p 75)
• Dick (Scrooge's fellow apprentice at Fezziwig's)
• Mrs Fezziwig and her three daughters and their six suitors, employees, the housemaid, the baker, the cook, the milkman, the boy from over the way, a fiddler (p 76)
• Scrooge's former fiancee Belle who has now got a big and happy family of her own (p 79)
• The ghost of Christmas present (p 87)
• Bob Crachit (p 93, 121), Mrs Crachit, and their children Belinda, Peter, Martha and Tiny Tim
• Miners, four generations of one (Cornish?) family (p 100)
• Lighthouse men and sailors (p 101)
• Topper, a young man with an eye on one of Scrooge's niece's sisters (the plump one with the lace tucker) (p 103)
• A boy called Ignorance and a girl called Want (p 108)
• The ghost of Christmas yet to come (p 110)
• Businessmen discussing Scrooge's death (p 111)
• Two big eggs in the City discussing Scrooge's death (p 112)
• Lowlife types who steal from Scrooge after his death: his charwoman, his laundress Mrs Dilber, the undertaker's man who sell Scrooge's things to the rag and bone man Old Joe (p 114)
• An impoverished family in debt to Scrooge who are saved from financial ruin by his death (p 119)
• Scrooge's nephew (and family and friends)