Possible Clues:

• Set fire (a short story) to flag and call sailors with glossy fruit eaten by Queens' fellow having Christmas dinner?
• Not much to go with to a certain degree
• Novel heroine born in the Marshalsea
• After this go, go on to a certain degree
• Not much to tell about it
• Like Red Riding Hood
• There's not much to go for at university
• Dickensian letters induced alternative go-slow
• Picayune
• Will this go on the way to a degree? Not much