How far was David Copperfield autobiographical?
is considered the most autobiographical of all Dickens’s books. It tells the story of a young man maturing through a series of trials that mirror, in many ways, Dickens’s own misfortunes. Both Dickens and the character David worked in factories under duress; both fell in love with a pretty but empty-headed girl before marrying a more mature and stable woman. And David turned out to be a successful writer.
