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Transcript -- The American Tour

Charles Dickens: Celebrity Author - Audio

Feb 3, 2012Education

Transcript -- We look at how in 1867 Charles Dickens embarked on an exhausting 19 week tour of America as one of the world's first 'celebrity authors'.

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