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Eventually "Barkis Road," "Peggotty Road," "Copperfield Avenue" and "Dickens Avenue" were approved by the Council, to replace the names of four of Yarmouth's principal streets...
...immortal novelist who once aroused censure and reproach in the United States for drawing American character with too great exactitude in "Martin Chuzzlewit" has met a similar fate in England. In the Yarmouth town council, it was proposed to name certain highways, Copperfield Avenue, Steerforth Avenue. Peggoty Road, and Barkis Road. One of the more stalwart of the councillors, Jack Salmon, fish salesman by trade, condemned Barkis as a "silly old pup" and a "drunken rascal with a red nose". He spared Steerforth his denunciation only because he did not know the gentleman's reputation...
There is a parody, for instance by Charles Dickens who is usually connected with the high romanticism of David Copperfield of the serious vein of The Tale of Two Cities. He has taken the lines of Gray's immortal elegy and transformed them in very mediocre doggerel, into the tale of a eat and dog. Here, for example are the opening lines of his version of the church yard verses...
...London stage now offers the following: What Every Woman Knows, Partners, Oliver Cromwell, David Copperfield, At Mrs. Beam's, Robert E. Lee, So This is London, Success, Tons of Money, Lilies of the Field, Secrets, Ranny's First Play, R.U.R., Polly, The Beggars' Opera and at least half a dozen musical shows...
...York City, writing to an officer of the Boston Public Library on books and tastes of the day, bewailed the fact that "Our young readers want nothing but trash--such as Dickens and Thackeray. "Vanity Fair", "Pendennis", "The Newcomes", and "Esmond", had already been published; "Oliver Twist", "David Copperfield", and "Nicholas Nickleby", to mention but a few of the illustrious list, had appeared some time before. A hungry myriad of readers was clamoring for more "trash...