Tossing another thought into one aspect of the most current discussion . . .
I had always read that
David Copperfield was considered that most autobiographical of Dickens' novels. That and the character of Agnes Wickfield in that novel was modeled on the love of Dickens' life. Consider the ending from
David Copperfield:
Quote:
And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away. But one face, shining on me like a Heavenly light by which I see all other objects, is above them and beyond them all. And that remains.
I turn my head, and see it, in its beautiful serenity, beside me. My lamp burns low, and I have written far into the night; but the dear presence, without which I were nothing, bears me company.
O Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!
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