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Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time,…
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Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of…
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Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about…
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All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.
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Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my…
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People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad…
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I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.
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I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
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After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
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Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
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In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.
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As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest,…
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