Decoding Dickens: Social Stenography and the ‘Tavistock’ Letter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. An Introduction to Shorthand and its Study 1
4. Tironian Notes and Legal Practice: The Use of Shorthand Writing in Early Medieval Legal Culture 49
5. Writing the History of the Tironian Notes in the Sixteenth Century: Johannes Trithemius and Roman Shorthand 79
6. The Use of Shorthand by Women and Girls in Early Modern England 101
7. The Three Codes of Adonijah Bidwell (1716–1784) 133
8. Shorthand and the Informed Public in Early American Politics 157
9. Religion and Literacy, Parliaments and Business: Shorthand Writing in Great Britain and France, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century 179
10. The Romantic Melodic Code: What Stenography Tells Us About Mid-Nineteenth-Century Music 211
11. Decoding Dickens: Social Stenography and the ‘Tavistock’ Letter 243
12. Contributors 275
13. General Index 277