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Families were very important in Victorian times, and tended to be quite large. Dickens had a large family and was one of eight children. Despite being relatively well-off, Dickens saw himself as a “very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy", and at the age of 12 his father was sent to a debtors prison and Dickens had to work to help support his family. Because of this, Dickens felt that he could empathise with all families, and sought to highlight the plight of struggling families in much of his writing. Scrooge's attitude to family
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