BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Bliven, Bruce Jr. The Wonderful Writing Machine. New York: Random, 1954.

Although primarily about the invention of the typewriter, this work offers an analysis of the connection between the nearly simultaneous entries of typewriters and women into the workplace in the 1880s.

 

Butler, E. H. The Story of British Shorthand. London: Pittman, 1951.

An invaluable resource, and the only one I've found this thorough, for tracing the history of stenography in Great Britain.

Carlton, William J. Charles Dickens Shorthand Writer, The 'Prentice Days of a Master Craftsman. London: Palmer, 1926.

This work is solely devoted to Dickens and contains the most information I've yet found about his life as a Parliament reporter.

---. Timothy Bright, Doctor of Phisicke: A Memoir of "The Father of Modern Shorthand." London: Stock, 1911. Hancox, Joy. The Queen's Chameleon: The Life of John Byrom, A Study of Conflicting Loyalties. London: Cape, 1994.

Heffley, N. P. Biography of the Father of Stenography, Marcus Tullius Tiro. New York, 1882.

Despite its age, this work is the most comprehensive history of shorthand in antiquity I've yet found. This is not necessarily effusive praise, since to date I have found precious little reliable information available on the subject.

Matthews, William. Introduction. A Tutor to Tachygraphy or, Short-writing. By Thomas Shelton. Los Angeles: U of CA P, 1970. i-viii.

The introduction is helpful for information concerning the stenographic journals of Samuel Pepys. The work itself contains Shelton's stenographic theory.

Wacht, Peter G., ed. One Hundred Years of NCRA, A Commemorative Issue. Spec. issue of Journal of Court Reporting 60.9 (1999): 1-161.

The articles in this issue were extremely helpful to me as a launching pad for entering the historical aspect of this subject. But due to the scant attention paid to citing its sources, I find it necessary to corroborate the information it contains before using it.