Who was Alice in the novella A Christmas Carol?

In the novella "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, Alice is not a character in the story. The main character is Ebenezer Scrooge, a cold-hearted miser who is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Through these visits, Scrooge learns the error of his ways and undergoes a transformation to become a more compassionate and generous person.