and distinguished man
crushed in my breast’. He
uses much the same words to
describe the young David
Copperfield’s experiences at
the fictional Murdstone and
Grinby’s Thames-side
warehouse.
While Dickens would later
enjoy swims at Richmond, his
early experiences of the river
explains why the Thames was
such a lurking presence in
many of his novels, a deadly
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