“Dickensian poverty tends to occur after Christmas in January. For it is then, with pockets empty, diary decimated and larder bare, that the general populace sinks into a collective pauper's hibernation until Valentine's Day.” PovertyJanuaryPoverty QuotesScroogePoverty QuotationsA Christmas CarolPauperDickensianPoverty QuoteDickens Christmas Author:Stewart Stafford