Murdstone

We are talking about your heroes and your villains: Pecksniff, Squeers, Quilp, Murdstone, Headstone; your jokes and your pathos; your silly, pretty little women; your strong women – Betsey Trotwood, Peggotty – and your glorious comic women: Mrs Gamp, Mrs Todgers, Flora Finching.

A letter to Charles Dickens on his 200th birthday 2012

Murdstone in her warning voice, said: ‘Clara!’ when my mother bent over me, to bid me farewell.

David Copperfield 2007

The gloomy taint that was in the Murdstone blood, darkened the

David Copperfield 2007

But none was made; and I became, at ten years old, a little labouring hind in the service of Murdstone and Grinby.

David Copperfield 2007

Murdstone excepted, during the whole time — except at evening prayers in the parlour; to which I was escorted by Miss Murdstone after everybody else was placed; where I was stationed, a young outlaw, all alone by myself near the door; and whence I was solemnly conducted by my jailer, before any one arose from the devotional posture.

David Copperfield 2007

Murdstone, from Bloonderstone, Sooffolk, but owning to the name of

David Copperfield 2007

Murdstone gave such a scream that I all but dropped it.

David Copperfield 2007

Murdstone, striking in, ‘his character, I trust, would have been altogether different.’

David Copperfield 2007

Mr. Quinion then formally engaged me to be as useful as I could in the warehouse of Murdstone and Grinby, at a salary, I think, of six shillings

David Copperfield 2007

And, in a very little while, the Murdstone and Grinby life became so strange to me that I hardly believed in it, while my present life grew so familiar, that I seemed to have been leading it a long time.

David Copperfield 2007