What David Copperfield teaches you about financial management

Reading Charles Dickens' famous novel can offer one or two useful insights for getting your finances in order.

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David Copperfield is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was published as a monthly serial between May 1849 and November 1850, then republished in 1850 as a book. It tells the story of David Copperfield from his birth, through his turbulent childhood and young adulthood, to contented middle age. It has been adapted several times for film and television, most recently in a 1999 two-parter for the BBC (starring Maggie Smith and featuring a ten-year-old, pre-Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe in his first television role).

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Dr Matthew Partridge
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Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

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