Dickens and the Stenographic Mind

Initially described by Dickens as a ''savage stenographic mystery'', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer. In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study, Hugo Bowles tells the story of Dickens''s stenographic journey from his early encounters with the ''despotic'' shorthand symbols of Gurney''s Brachygraphy in 1828 to his lifelong commitment to sho...