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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Charles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
David Copperfield: Chapters 1 - 11

Chapter 1: I Am Born

David Copperfield was born at Blunderstone Rookery in the county of
Suffolk. He never saw his father, who had died six months earlier and with
whom he associates only the white gravestone in the churchyard, feeling an
"indefinable compassion" for him "lying out alone there in the dark night."

On the day of David's birth, Miss Betsey Trotwood, his father's aunt, a
lady of odd quirks and a strong will, made her first visit. David's father had
been her favorite nephew, but when he had married the ...

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