Who the Dickens Wrote David Copperfield?

In the days before washing machines a great deal of the housewife's week was spent doing the laundry.  First ,  lighting the copper to get the hot water.  Before the Clean Air Act when we started using smokeless fuels the air in our cities was dirty and, if you lived near a railway or factory, full of smuts so clothes had to be soaked.   Then scrubbed, rinsed, starched, mangled, dried and ironed. All these jobs taking a great deal of time and effort.My mother used to tell me about her friend's family, the Mullers.  Mr. Muller and his two grown up sons ran a fish shop and wore clean white shirts and aprons every day.  Poor Mrs. Muller seemed to be always at the wash tub.  Mother's friend, Maudie Muller, aged about 12 was blind.  She was. however, an excellent reader of Braille books and would sit by the garden door reading  David Copperfield   or Oliver Twist to her mother as Mrs. Muller did the washing. Their favourite was  Pickwick Papers  My mother was often there and said that she learned to like Dickens because she listened so often to Maudie.