摘要：It is said that Charles Dickens managed to reveal through his literary work more than any historian could have ever revealed through historical documents: the Victorian society with its values and needs. But the writer, too, was part of this society that he described. The paper is an attempt at identifying (auto)biographical data in Dickens’novel “David Copperfield”, with a view to shaping the man behind the novel, the writer who corresponded with his readers, but also the child who visited his father in the debtors’ prison, briefly, the man in relation to the age he lived in. The first part of the paper will focus on introducing the key concepts, the second part will deal with (auto)biographical data in “David Copperfield”, and the last part will contain the conclusions.
