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First, partly due to the massive digitalization of papers and letters in recent years, Helena Kelly has unearthed new material about Dickens that simply wasn't available to his earlier biographers. Second, in an astonishing piece of archival detective work, she has traced and then joined the dots on revelatory new details about his mental and physical health that, as the reader will discover, had a strong bearing on both his writing and his life and eventual death.\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e Together these have allowed her to come up with a striking hypothesis that the version of his life that Dickens chose to share with his public--both during his lifetime and from beyond the grave in the authorized biography published shortly after his death--was an elaborate exercise in reputation management. 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