![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally published in serial form from May 1849 through November 1850, David Copperfield is the first of Dickens's novels written entirely in the first person. It was only after his biographer John Forster published his Life of Charles Dickens in 1872 that readers learned of Dickens's difficult youth and of the autobiographical nature of one of his finest creations, David Copperfield. Dickens found these memories too painful to continue his autobiography in fact, he jealously guarded the facts of his London youth. This disruption to Dickens's childhood and education remained a source of intense grief throughout his life. The imprisonment of his father forced the family to send the twelve-year-old Dickens to work in a blacking factory. "Even now, famous and caressed and happy, I often forget in my dreams that I have a dear wife and children even that I am a man and wander desolately back to that time of my life."Ĭharles Dickens composed this passage between 18 referring to the dark times of his youth when his family moved to London in the early 1820s. ![]()
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