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SOME MINOR CHARACTERS
Miss Strong was allotted the "fat" part of Betsy
Trotwood, David Copperfield's delightful aunt.
Mr. Ashby Sterry has taken great pains to
identify Miss Trotwood's house at Dover, and
believes that he has done so. One is, however,
disinclinedthough regretfullyto accept his
evidences. One is more inclined to accept those
of Mr. Kitton, who boldly affirms that the ori
ginal of Betsy Trotwood lived at Broadstairs.
She was a Miss Strong (says Mr. Kitton). She
occupied a double-fronted cottage in the middle
of Nuckell's Place, on the sea-frontand like the
admirable Betsy, she was firmly convinced of her
right to stop the passage of donkeys along the
road opposite her door, deterring their proprie
tors by means of hostile demonstrations with a
hearth-broom."
