Event: Decoding Dickens – The Shorthand Mysteries

The Dickens Code is pleased to announce details of a free online exhibition: ‘Decoding Dickens: The Shorthand Mysteries’. The exhibition examines the crucial role of shorthand in Dickens’s life and work and enables visitors to explore little-known manuscripts from collections at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Charles Dickens Museum, John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Morgan Library and Museum, and V&A, alongside portraits and illustrations. You can read the crowd-crafted transcripts created by the Dickens Decoders as part of international efforts to crack the ‘Dickens Code’ and listen to readings performed by actor Dominic Gerrard, which bring Dickens’s mysterious shorthand writing vividly to life.

The exhibition is part of the Dickens Code project, an AHRC-funded collaboration led by Dr Claire Wood (University of Leicester) and Professor Hugo Bowles (University of Foggia, now University of Buckingham).

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