Cratchit family
<em>A Christmas Carol</em>Bob Cratchit carrying Tiny Tim, illustration from an edition of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Cratchit family, fictional characters, an impoverished hardworking and warmhearted family in A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens. The family comprises Bob Cratchit, his wife, and their six children: Martha, Belinda, Peter, two smaller Cratchits (an unnamed girl and boy), and the lame but ever-cheerful Tiny Tim.
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Article Title:
Cratchit family
Website Name:
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published:
04 February 2016
Access Date:
November 23, 2024