This is not an essay. It is to answer 3 questions per page. Answer the questions in order. Use the book attached as the source. And use in text citations as well. in case you want to quote anything from the book passage. Please Answer these 8 questions. Thank you.

1. What have you learned from the biography about serial publication?

2.  Does the biography/biographer seem to have a favorite work by Dickens?  If so, what, and how can you tell?

3.  What kinds of materials (sources) does the author of the biography seem to have used in writing it?  Can you tell?  How?

4.  How much does it tell you about the historical, social, and intellectual context in which Dickens lived and wrote?

5.  Sometimes biographies make an argument that is more (or less) explicit.  What argument do you think your biography is making?

6.  Does the biography use dialogue?

7.  What kind of audience does the biographer imagine he or she is addressing?  How can you tell?

8.  Are there illustrations?  What kinds of things get chosen for inclusion as illustrations?

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