![]() There is her generosity to David Copperfield himself, her determination to help him where she can – and not to blame him when she can’t. She feeds and houses and respects this eccentric man who spends his time obsessively writing about Charles I and his lost head, when most others would have locked him in an asylum. There is her kindness to the eccentric Mr Dick. Her life is full of compromises, in spite of the dauntless front she presents to the world.īut such weaknesses help us enjoy her strengths all the more. She has tragedies in her past that she is unable to manage in the present. We gradually learn that her frantic dislike of these poor lovable creatures is not her only flaw. Next time we meet her, she is just as formidable, meting out more physical violence on anyone foolish enough to approach her patch of garden in the company of a donkey. She continues to terrify everyone else on the scene for as long as it takes for the baby to be born – and then storms off, aiming a blow at the head of the doctor who has just informed her that she has a new nephew rather than the niece she desired. Her appearance frightens David Copperfield’s mother so much that she goes into labour. ![]() His aunt arrives, as she always does, dramatically. Photograph: Penguin Clothbound Classicsīetsey bursts into the novel just before its eponymous narrator is born. ![]()
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