Gifford Lewis recalls a notable Devon family
Like many Victorians, the Yeats family enjoyed the reading aloud of Dickens and, from the evidence of family letters, it would seem that David Copperfield made most impression on the children of John Butler Yeats and his wife, Susan Pollexfen; but far more significant, from the Pollexfen point of view, was Bleak House which is a horror story of heirs caught up in a Chancery case
