Pre-1900 prose study

What you'll learn

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   Imagine you're holding a dusty old letter from 1850. 📜 It's a real person's thoughts, written in their own words — that's pre-1900 prose!

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   What does 'pre-1900' mean?

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   Here's a short bit from 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens (1843). 🎄 See how he describes Scrooge: 'Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!'

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   Let's read a sentence from 'Jane Eyre' (1847) together. 📝

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   Now you try! Drag the old words to match their modern meanings. 🧩

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   What does 'tight-fisted' mean in modern English?

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   Why do we study pre-1900 prose?