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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19970910
Author:SCOTT EYMAN

Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters. By Daniel Pool. HarperCollins. 282 pages. $25.

In 1830, seven years before Victoria ascended to the throne and "The Pickwick Papers" was published, only 1,100 books were published in England. The fiction titles were invariably in the three-volume format that had been de rigeur since Sir Walter Scott's medieval romances. The average press run was 750 to 1,200 copies.

The point is that much of the English population was illiterate, and those who weren't still didn't read much. As Daniel Pool points out in this fascinating new book, "Only a ...

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