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David Copperfield

Henry Fielding Dickens

Sunday Jan 14, 1849
Yarmouth, England, United Kingdom

A week after Charles's arrival in Yarmouth, his sixth son, Henry Fielding Dickens, was named after Henry Fielding, his favorite past author. Per Forster, Dickens refers to Fielding "as a kind of homage to the novel he was about to write".


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