Calico Illustrated Calssics: David Copperfield

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1 I Am Born I have been told that I was born on a Friday at midnight I was born in the small town of Blunderstone in Suffolk England My father had died some six months before The most surprising thing about my birth was the visitor who arrived just before it Betsey Trotwood was my father’s aunt Miss Trotwood had once been married Her husband was a great disappointment to her considering he once tried to toss her out of a third-story window She paid him off and he went away to India Miss Trotwood then lived as a single woman for the rest of her life She believed strongly that all women would benefit from life without husbands 4