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- The author is learning Victorian copperplate handwriting for a project set in 1895, to avoid modern handwriting being a giveaway.
- They come from a family of teachers with excellent handwriting, but their own handwriting has deteriorated due to lack of practice.
- Two main resources are used: a digitized Vere Foster copybook from Charlotte Mason and scans from The Visual Telling of Stories.
- The practice is physically demanding, causing hand, wrist, and forearm ache, with inconsistent results.
- The author learned that copperplate is a version of round hand, designed in the 1660s, and plans to continue practicing.
- Several useful links are provided for further exploration of historical handwriting and scripts.