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Today in History: Feb. 7
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[Richmond Times Dispatch] - 7, Author Charles Dickens, widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Landport, Portsmouth, England The 11th Amendment to the US Constitution, dealing with states' sovereign immunity, was ratified.
India celebrates, and debates on Dickens
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[Times of India] - As the world celebrates 200 years of Charles Dickens, so does India despite the intense debate on the relevance of Dickensian pedagogy in the 21st century. The pictures he painted of Victorian England were often bleak, his characters an unfashionable
Why to Read Dickens Now (Or Watch Him on TV)
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[TIME] - By Radhika Jones | January 26, | + When Charles Dickens began writing his first novel—in 1836, the year before Victoria took the throne—the literacy rate in England was less than 50 percent. By the end of her reign, in 1901, it was 97 percent.
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