- ^ Dickens invented over 14 variations of the title for this work, see Adams, Hazard (Autumn 1987). "Titles, Titling, and Entitlement to". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 46 (1): 7–21. doi:10.2307/431304. JSTOR 431304.
- ^ Actually Wordsworth began writing this work in 1798–99.
- ^ Charles I was born into the House of Stuart 19 November 1600, and was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1625 to 1649. Charles I was deposed during the English Civil War, and was beheaded, with the monarchy replaced by the Commonwealth of England. Charles was canonized by the Church of England in 1660.
- ^ For example, those of Joseph Andrews or Tom Jones written by Henry Fielding, Dickens's favorite past author.
- ^ A Rookery is a colony of birds, usually rooks. The term "rookery" was also used as a name for dense slum housing in nineteenth-century cities, especially in London.
- ^ The expression is from St Augustine who uses it at the end of the first part of his Confessions.
- ^ Word play containing the verb "brook", meaning "endure," and the town of "Sheffield," famous for the manufacture of cutlery. Hence Mr Murdstone's joke, "take care, if you please. Somebody's sharp".
- ^ The connotations of the first name "Clara" are clarity, transparency, brightness.
- ^ Dickens ridiculed the way it worked, lamenting that detainees were better treated than the poor or even non-commissioned soldiers.
- ^ Conclusion of the preface of 1867: "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield."
- ^ It is likely here that Dickens refers to the failure of his marriage with his wife.
- ^ Kafka's novel is a kind of inverted bildungsroman, since the young man whose destiny we follow is more of a disaster than an accomplishment.
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