... 1833. It was a most unhappy one for Dickens. In 1832 Dickens became a very successful shorthand reporter of Parliamentary debates in the House of Commons. But when the liberal daily newspaper The Morning Chronicle was reorganized and expanded, Dickens jumped at the chance of becoming one of its regular staff members. His thoroughness and speed helped the Chronicle provide serious competition ... reporter. He purchased a copy of Gurney's Brachgraphy and taught himself shorthand. At the age of sixteen, Charles Dickens found work as a court reporter. Later he joined the Mirror of Parliamen...

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... became a universal icon, prompting the nostalgic worldwide spectacles of the Golden and Diamond Jubilees in 1887 and 1897. When Victoria died in 1901, after the longest reign in English history, a newspaper wrote: "Few of us, perhaps, have realized till now how large a part she had in the life of everyone of us; how the thread of her life [bound] the warp ... ...

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... about the nature of human existence." It is said that Dickens wrote articles concerning "Crime and Education" as well as "Crime and Punishment" for the "Daily News" and for another newspaper known as "Household Words" in about 1846. Dickens at this stage in his life "claimed to know the prisons of London well." This would seem to be true as Dickens ... ...

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