David Copperfield,based on his wife's dwarfchiropodist Indeed,the acquaintances made when readinga Dickens novel are not easily forgotten.The author Virginia Woolfmaintained that"we remodel our psychological geography when we read Dickens"as he produces"characters who exist not in detail,not accurately or exactly,but abundantly in a cluster of wild yet extraordinarily revealingremarks."[46] V.Autobiographicalelements All authors might be said to incorporate autobiographical 10 elements in their fiction,but with Dickens this is very noticeable,even though he took pains to mask what he considered his shameful,lowly past.DavidCopperfield is one of the most clearly autobiographical but the scenes from Bleak House of interminable court cases and legal arguments are drawn from the author's briefcareer as a court reporter Dickens's own father was sent to prison for debt,andthis became a common theme in many of his books,with the detailed depictionoflife in the Marshalseaprison in Little Dorrit resulting from Dickens'sown experiences ofthe institution.Childhood sweethearts in many ofhis books(such as Little Em'ly in David Copperfield)may have been based on David Copperfield, based on his wife's dwarf chiropodist. Indeed, the acquaintances made when reading a Dickens novel are not easily forgotten. The author Virginia Woolfmaintained that "we remodel our psychological geography when we read Dickens" as he produces "characters who exist not in detail, not accurately or exactly, but abundantly in a cluster of wild yet extraordinarily revealing remarks."[46] V. Autobiographical elements All authors might be said to incorporate autobiographical elements in their fiction, but with Dickens this is very noticeable, even though he took pains to mask what he considered his shameful, lowly past. David Copperfield is one of the most clearly autobiographical but the scenes from Bleak House of interminable court cases and legal arguments are drawn from the author's brief career as a court reporter. Dickens's own father was sent to prison for debt, and this became a common theme in many of his books, with the detailed depiction of life in the Marshalsea prison in Little Dorrit resulting from Dickens's own experiences of the institution. Childhood sweethearts in many of his books (such as Little Em'ly in David Copperfield) may have been based on 10’