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Audio: Mamie Dickens on Dickens’s Tidy Nature
Dickens’s eldest daughter Mary, affectionately known as Mamie, shares in this extract her memories of Dickens’s love of neatness and beauty.
Audio: The Earliest Known Letter by Dickens
Hear in this audio track the earliest known letter by Dickens written as a 13-year-old schoolboy in 1825.
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