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Betsey Trotwood is David Copperfield's great-aunt on his father's side, and has an unfavourable view of men and boys, having been ill-used and abandoned by a worthless husband earlier in life.
David Copperfield [N 1] is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, ... The illustration of the meeting between David and Aunt Betsey was particularly delicate, ...
David runs away to live with his aunt Betsy Trotwood in Dover. He later marries his employer Spenlow's daughter, Dora. Dora dies and David marries longtime friend, Agnes Wickfield. David, like Dickens, becomes a successful author in David Copperfield. Corney, Mrs Matron of the work-house where Oliver is born. She marries Bumble making him ...
David Copperfield is born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, three months after the death of his father, who was also called David Copperfield. On the night of David's birth, his great-aunt, Betsey Trotwood, arrives at the "Rookery" — the Copperfield family home — and eagerly anticipates the birth of a baby girl. She insists that Clara Copperfield's ...
David Copperfield is the protagonist after which the 1850 Charles Dickens novel David ... Aunt Betsey quickly adopts David and sends him to Dr Strong's private school ...
While at MGM, David O. Selznick cast Oliver in two film versions of novels by Charles Dickens, as the prim, acidic Miss Pross A Tale of Two Cities [7] (1935), starring Ronald Colman, and as the title character's eccentric aunt, Betsy Trotwood in David Copperfield [8] (also 1935).
David Copperfield is facing new allegations of misconduct from more than a dozen women, at least half of whom say they were underage when he allegedly groomed or groped them. On Wednesday, an ...
She remains faithful to David Copperfield all her life, being like a second mother to him, never abandoning him, his mother, or his great-aunt Miss Betsey Trotwood. In her kind motherliness, Peggotty contrasts markedly with the harsh and unloving Miss Murdstone, the sister of David's cruel, rude and wicked stepfather Mr Murdstone. [2]