Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Dora

The first wife of David Copperfield; she was a child-wife, but no help-meet. She could do nothing of practical use, but looked on her husband with idolatrous love. Tennyson has a poem entitled Dora.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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