Illustration by Hablot Knight Browne from the first edition of David Copperfield. The engraving depicts the orphaned boy introducing himself to his eccentric aunt, Betsey Trotwood, who takes him in.
Betsey Trotwood, fictional character, the eccentric aunt of the protagonist of Charles Dickens’s novel David Copperfield (1849–50).
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