Left: Dickens reading to his daughters. Right: The Pickwick Papers
According to Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, reading aloud was a common practice in the ancient world, the Middle A…
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October 11, 2017- July 17, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsA new literary discovery featuring Charles Dickens’s annotations in his literary magazine reveals the identity of many Victorian authors who had been publishing anonymousl…
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