M. David Green is a writer and communications professional who lives and works out of a loft in a converted commercial building in San Francisco, publishing both fiction and nonfiction. He has a passion for literature and a strong interest in semantics and natural language structures. As an avid reader, and a strong feminist, it always seemed wrong to him when he saw the way women and men were portrayed in the books he read growing up. Over the years, he has been looking for ways to reconcile his understanding of the equality of men and women as we know it in modern society with the ways gender roles were presented in the great writings of earlier days. This book is one of a series he is working on as part of the Transconceive Project to create an alternative library of classical writings that flip gender steroptypes around, and invite the reader to look at them directly. You can follow him on Twitter at @mdavidgreen, or find out more about the project at www.transconceive.com. Charles Dickens is the author of the original work on which this transconceived version was based. His story "A Christmas Carol" was first published in 1843, and has become a treasured classic.