![]() Oops.Charles Dickens originally introduced the character of the dwarf, Miss Mowcher, as an aid to Steerforth's plan to elope with Emily. This was the first the public knew of Dickens' difficult childhood that had so heavily shaped his early work ( Forster, 1899, v. Forster's biography included the autobiographical fragment Dickens had given him. ![]() On Dickens' death Forster wrote The Life of Charles Dickens, which is still the definitive biography of Dickens, although many of the more negative aspects of Dickens life are glossed over or missing altogether. When David is asked by Mrs Micawber to take some of their treasured possessions to the pawn shop to help meet their obligations, Dickens is recalling painful memories of having to pawn off the very books he read and treasured as a child to ease his family's financial woes. The financial troubles of the Micawbers, with whom David was boarding at the time, mirror Dickens' parents, John and Elizabeth Dickens, financial difficulties. ![]() In the novel Dickens' painful memories of being taken from school to work at Warren's Blacking Factory while his father is in prison for debt are told through David's account of Murdstone and Grinby's warehouse. ![]() He opted instead to work his story into the fictional account of David Copperfield. Dickens by Maclise 1839Dickens found the writing too painful and burned what he had written. ![]()
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