Stenography

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850). Here’s an article about Dickens and stenography, complete with charts of arbitrary characters from Thomas Gurney’s Brachygraphy (1825), the manual Dickens would have used: Hugo Bowles’s “Stenography and Orality in Dickens: Rethinking the Phonographic Myth” ( Dickens Studies Annual ). Alas, no arbitrary characters for expectation and disadvantageous ,…