Betsey Trotwood

Back to Farringdon for my last physio treatment (long boring story, don't ask). I hadn't noticed this pub before and was struggling to think why the name "Betsey Trotwood" was familiar. Wikipedia solved it of course: "Betsey Trotwood is David Copperfield's great-aunt on his father's side, and has an unfavourable view of men and boys, having been ill-used and abandoned by a worthless husband earlier in life. She appears in the novel's first chapter, where she demonstrates her uncommon personality and her dislike of boys when she storms out of the house after hearing that David's mother has had a son, rather than the daughter to whom Trotwood intended to be the godmother". My second photo is of the Shard and St Paul's cathedral (again)

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