Peggotty's, David learns that Emily is now engaged to her cousin Ham. Steerforth then accompanies David to visit the Peggottys. Steerforth, and a young, sarcastic woman named Rosa Dartle-Steerforth’s cousin, who has a scar on her face from a time when Steerforth threw a hammer at her. David visits Steerforth's home, where he meets both Steerforth's mother, Mrs. One day, while passing through London, David runs into Steerforth. Wickfield's clerk and apprentice, Uriah Heep, who has a cloying and self-deprecating demeanor. However, David is somewhat unnerved by the presence of Mr. David becomes good friends with Wickfield's daughter Agnes-a kind and patient girl who is devoted to her widower father. Because the school is in Canterbury, David lodges with Miss Betsey's lawyer, Mr. Miss Betsey places David in a school run by a kindly, absent-minded man named Doctor Strong.
Dick-a mentally disabled man who lives with her-will be David's guardians going forward. Showing the Murdstones to the door, she then announces that she and Mr. She is initially unsure of what to do with him, but when the Murdstones pay Miss Betsey a visit, she lectures them for abusing David and driving Clara to her death. After a difficult journey entirely on foot, David makes it to Dover and finds Miss Betsey's cottage. Now entirely alone, David decides to run away and throw himself on his great-aunt's mercy. Micawber eventually moves his family to the country in the hopes of securing a job and digging himself out of debt. The one bright spot in his life is the Micawbers: an impoverished but good-natured family David lodges with. David is miserable and longs to continue with his education. Murdstone puts David to work in a London counting-house that he owns. David's schooling ends abruptly, however, when he hears that both his mother and her new baby have died.Īfter Clara's funeral, Mr. David's time at the school is not entirely unhappy, as he befriends Tommy Traddles, a kindhearted boy, and James Steerforth, an older, wealthy, and charismatic student who takes David under his wing. The Murdstones spitefully send David away to a boarding school run by an abusive headmaster named Mr.
and Miss Murdstone are bullies determined to have their way, and they use David as a pawn in their efforts to train Clara to behave "firmly." Murdstone's sister, Miss Murdstone, has come to live with them. When he and Peggotty return home, however, David learns that his mother and Mr. Peggotty's niece, little Em'ly, whom David becomes infatuated with.
Peggotty, who is a fisherman in Yarmouth. Eventually, Peggotty takes David on a trip to see her brother, Mr. Murdstone, whom David instinctively dislikes and fears. When David is seven or eight years old, however, Clara begins to spend a great deal of time with a man named Mr. David's earliest memories are of a happy, makeshift family consisting of himself, his mother Clara, and the motherly housekeeper, Peggotty. This takes place six months after the death of his father (also named David Copperfield). David Copperfield states his intention to tell the story of his life, beginning from the very moment of his birth.
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