EMILY DICKINSON

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The first commercially printed Christmas card is up for sale — a merry Victorian-era scene that scandalized some who denounced it as humbug when it first appeared in 1843. “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You,” it reads. That didn't sit well at the time with the puritanical Temperance Society, which kicked up such a fuss it took three years before another Christmas card was produced. “They were quite distressed that in this ‘scandalous’ picture they had children toasting with a glass of wine along with the adults. It's believed to have gone on sale in the same week in December 1843 that Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol” first was published.

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Emily Dickinson is getting the TV treatment. Hailee Steinfeld portrays the esteemed American poet in the upcoming Apple Original series, Dickinson, a coming-of-age drama that positions the budding creative writer as an unexpected hero for a millennial era. The first teaser sees an ambitious, young Emily pushing the boundaries of expectations. I have one purpose, and that is to become a great writer, says Dickinson, whose wild antics clash with her familys conservative lifestyle. The teaser for Dickinson also marks the third series Apple has given audiences a look at ahead of the debut of Apple TV+.