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I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction. So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield 1850, the novel he called his favourite child. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction. So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield 1850, the novel he called his favourite child. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the heros sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickenss own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickenss most quoted and best-loved novel.