On the second of December 1867, almost two years after the furor of the American Civil War had sufficiently died down, Charles Dickens, then the most popular and acclaimed writer in the world, gave the first of his American public readings in a theatre in New York. It is said that the line to see and hear him stretched for more than a mile.

Never shy about promoting himself, Dickens would travel between New York and Boston for the next four months performing ...

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