Emily Cratchit
Like Bob, Emily will always see the bright side - whatever life throws at her.
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Brave, loyal and hard working – there’s nothing Emily wouldn’t do for her family.
About Jennifer Hennessy
Jennifer’s television credits include Vera and Foyle's War for ITV, and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One's , , and . She has also appeared in two Channel 4's hit series, Utopia and Shameless.
Jennifer recently starred in Helen Walsh's feature film The Violators.
Christmas dinner with the Cratchits
The Cratchit family are the beating heart of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.
Christmas dinner with the Cratchits is one of the most iconic scenes from Dickens’s fiction:
"Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course: and in truth it was something very like it in that house. Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped. At last the dishes were set on, and grace was said. It was succeeded by a breathless pause, as Mrs. Cratchit, looking slowly all along the carving-knife, prepared to plunge it in the breast; but when she did, and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah!
There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn't believe there ever was such a goose cooked. Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Eked out by the apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family; indeed, as Mrs. Cratchit said with a great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last!"
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Stave three
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