Further Reading

Further Reading

• Hugo Bowles, Dickens and the Stenographic Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). Explores the profound influence of shorthand learning on Dickens’s life and work
• William J. Carlton, Charles Dickens, Shorthand Writer: The ‘Prentice Days of a Master Craftsman (London: Cecil Palmer, 1926). Available online at Archive.org.
• Kathryn Chittick, Dickens and the 1830s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Chapter one examines Dickens’s time as a clerk and parliamentary reporter. Available online at Archive.org.
• John M. L. Drew, Dickens the Journalist (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Investigates Dickens’s career as a journalist, including his early years as a reporter.
• Nikki Hessell, Literary Authors, Parliamentary Reporters: Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Dickens (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Chapter five analyses the significance of Dickens’s parliamentary reporting.

Online Resources

• Brachygraphy, or, an Easy and Compendious System of Shorthand, 16^th edition (London: Gurney, 1835). A later version of the shorthand manual that Dickens used to learn the Gurney system, available online at Archive.org.
• 'Charles Dickens at 200', Morgan Library and Museum <https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/charles-dickens-at-200> An online exhibition highlighting some of the Morgan's Dickens material.
• Charles Dickens Museum: Collections Online <https://dickensmuseum.com/pages/online-collection>.
• The Dickens Code <https://dickenscode.org/>.
• Dickens’s Manuscript Shorthand Book (English MS 725), John Rylands Library and Research Institute, University of Manchester <https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/MS-ENGLISH-00725>
• The Shorthand Notebooks of Charles Dickens and Arthur P. Stone, The Free Library of Philadelphia <https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/68606>.