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Personal Experiences influenced David Copperfield
Added by Media Influence Map · 14 October 2026
- Childhood labour at Warren's blacking factory
The evidence
David's spell in a London warehouse retells Dickens's own childhood work at Warren's blacking factory while his father was in debtors' prison.
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