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1. Dickens, Dickens-Style: How the BBC are making use of the ‘streaky bacon’ effect

‘What connexion can there be between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabouts of Jo the outlaw with the broom,’ asks Dickens’s narrator in Bleak House. As the novel develops, it offers various possible answers, including disease, family, money, and friendship.

The post Dickens, Dickens-Style: How the BBC are making use of the ‘streaky bacon’ effect appeared first on OUPblog.

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2. Classic Author Charles Dickens

Real Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens


Education: To pay for his board and to help his family,Dickens was forced to leave school and work ten hour days. He eventually went to the Wellington House Academy in North London.


Occupation: English writer, considered to be the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. Dickens is responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters.

First Book:  A Dinner at Poplar Walk 1883 was published in the London periodical, Monthly Magazine

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