David Copperfield is born (delivered by Mr Chillip). It tells of how his father died when Clara, his mother, was 6 months pregnant with him. David's father's aunt (Betsey Trotwood) arrives when he is being born. She leaves when it is announced that the baby is a boy. Peggotty, the housemaid is happy. C Copperfield had tea with Heep and his mother, who claimed that they are ‘much too humble’. While they are having tea, Mr Micawber walked past and told them about london and his family
The plot is set among marshes in Kent, in London, in the early to mid-1800s. The novel is introduced by the introduction of the hero of the novel Pip who an orphan, who lives his sister & her husband, Joe Gargery, who is the village Blacksmith. The theme Crime, Guilt & Innocence is very much propound in the novel as its first evidence can be traced when he meets an escaped convict in the marshes who forces him to steal some food and a file from Joe’s forge. Mr. Gargery had always been a good friend
Born on February 7, 1812, Charles John Huffam Dickens, the creative pen of the Victorian era holds a transcendent position in the literary society of the time. He is considered to be one of the greatest novelists of his times and is responsible for some of the most iconic novels in the history of literature. His genius was fully recognized by scholars and critics. Many of his works were originally published serially in monthly installments, a format of publication that Dickens himself helped popularize