Character Summary
Clara Copperfield: the fragile, delicate, pretty, and young wife of the deceased David Copperfield and mother of the boy who takes his father's name Miss Betsey Trotwood Copperfield: a.k.a. Miss Betsey, David Copperfield's eccentric great-aunt who had married and divorced an abusive husband Clara Peggotty: the Copperfields' spiritually loyal and physically stout housemaid Ham Peggotty: Peggotty's orphan nephew Mr. Chillip: the meek, mild doctor who attends to Mrs. Copperfield while she gives birth to David Edward Murdstone: a black haired and black whiskered man who courts Mrs. Copperfied to David's and Peggotty's disapproval Dan Peggotty: Peggotty's fisherman brother who lives in a boathouse in Yarmouth and who has a heart of gold Mrs. Gummidge: the poor widow of Mr. Peggotty's fis
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