David Copperfield (1935 film) David Copperfield (1935 film) David Copperfield is a 1935 American film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer based upon the Charles Dickens novel "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger". A number of characters and incidents from the novel were omitted – notably David's time at Salem House boarding school, although one character he met at Salem House (Steerforth) was retained for the film as a head boy at the school David attended after his aunt Betsey Trotwood gained custody of him. The story was adapted by Hugh Walpole from the Dickens novel, and the film was directed
Charles Wilkins (writer) The Red Dragon. Wilkins died at home on 2 August 1913. Charles Wilkins (writer) Charles Wilkins (1831–1913) was a writer and editor. Wilkins was born in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, but lived for most of his life in Merthyr Tydfil, where he worked first as a postmaster's clerk to his father, and as a librarian for twenty years. As a writer, Wilkins' published output includes "The History of the Literature of Wales from 1300 to 1650" (1884), "The History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and Other Trades of Wales" (1903), and "The History of Merthyr Tydfil" (1867 and 1908). He also wrote