Left: Dickens reading to his daughters. Right: The Pickwick Papers
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October 11, 2017- July 17, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews A new literary discovery featuring Charles Dickens’s annotations in his literary magazine reveals the identity of many Victorian authors who had been publishing anonymous…
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