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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "slug": "david-copperfield",
  "title": "David Copperfield",
  "author": "Charles Dickens",
  "language": "en",
  "spoilers": true,
  "characters": [
    {
      "name": "David Copperfield",
      "aliases": [
        "David Copperfield the Younger",
        "Davy",
        "Master Davy",
        "Trotwood Copperfield",
        "Trot"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator and protagonist, born posthumously in Blunderstone. His great-aunt adopts him; he becomes a successful writer and marries Agnes, with whom he has three children."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Betsey Trotwood",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Betsey",
        "Miss Trotwood",
        "Betsey"
      ],
      "description": "David’s formidable great-aunt and guardian. She once loved and married a man who ruined her fortune and treated her cruelly; she continues to give him money to send him away. She is godmother to David and Agnes’s daughter Betsey."
    },
    {
      "name": "David Copperfield (father)",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Copperfield",
        "David"
      ],
      "description": "David’s late father, who died six months before David was born."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. David Copperfield",
      "aliases": [
        "David’s mother",
        "Mrs. Copperfield",
        "Ma",
        "Clara"
      ],
      "description": "David’s young widowed mother, later married to Mr. Murdstone. She dies soon after giving birth to David’s baby brother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Peggotty",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs. Peggotty"
      ],
      "description": "The Copperfields’ loyal servant and David’s close childhood companion. Ham’s aunt, she marries Mr. Barkis and supports her brother’s family."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ham Peggotty",
      "aliases": [
        "Ham",
        "Am"
      ],
      "description": "Peggotty’s nephew, adopted by Mr. Peggotty. A skilled boat-builder, he was engaged to Little Em’ly and remains a steadfast friend and helper after her elopement."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Chillip",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Chillip"
      ],
      "description": "A meek doctor who attends David’s birth and later comforts him. He remarries, establishes a practice near Bury St. Edmund’s, and has a daughter."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ham’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "Joe"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Peggotty’s late brother and Ham’s father, who drowned."
    },
    {
      "name": "Little Em’ly",
      "aliases": [
        "Em’ly",
        "Emily"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Peggotty’s orphan niece, once engaged to Ham. After eloping with Steerforth and being abandoned abroad, she returns to London; Mr. Peggotty takes her with him to Australia, where she remains devoted to her uncle and helps others."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tom",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Peggotty’s brother-in-law"
      ],
      "description": "Little Em’ly’s late father, who drowned."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Gummidge",
      "aliases": [
        "Missis Gummidge"
      ],
      "description": "The widow of Mr. Peggotty’s late boat partner. She lives with the Peggottys and becomes a steadfast support after Em’ly’s flight; in Australia she proves a devoted helper and marries a ship’s cook who becomes a settler."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Gummidge",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Peggotty’s partner",
        "the old ’un"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Peggotty’s late partner in a boat and Mrs. Gummidge’s husband."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Murdstone",
      "aliases": [
        "Murdstone",
        "Edward",
        "David’s new father"
      ],
      "description": "A stern, controlling man who marries David’s mother and becomes his stepfather. He and his sister subject David to harsh discipline; he later marries again and remains severe toward his second wife."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Quinion",
      "aliases": [
        "Quinion"
      ],
      "description": "An associate and business manager for Mr. Murdstone who arranges David’s work and takes him to London."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Passnidge",
      "aliases": [
        "Passnidge"
      ],
      "description": "An associate of Mr. Murdstone who discusses a business project at a seaside hotel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Brooks of Sheffield",
      "aliases": [
        "Brooks"
      ],
      "description": "A person invoked as the subject of a joke among Mr. Murdstone and his associates."
    },
    {
      "name": "The carrier",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Barkis"
      ],
      "description": "The cart driver who takes David and Peggotty between Blunderstone and Yarmouth. He courts and marries Peggotty, then dies after a long illness, leaving her his savings."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Skylark",
      "aliases": [
        "the man aboard the Skylark"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed red-haired man aboard the yacht Skylark who keeps David company."
    },
    {
      "name": "The nurse",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed nurse summoned to attend David’s birth."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old lady with a hand-basket",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed elderly woman who wins the raffle for David’s caul."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Grayper",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A neighbour of the Copperfields who hosts David’s mother while David visits Yarmouth."
    },
    {
      "name": "The clergyman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed clergyman at David’s parish church, who conducts his mother’s burial."
    },
    {
      "name": "The boy in the aisle",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed boy at David’s church who makes faces at him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Bodgers",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Bodgers late of this parish"
      ],
      "description": "A deceased former parishioner commemorated on a church tablet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Bodgers",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mr. Bodgers’s widow, mentioned in the parish church memorial."
    },
    {
      "name": "The attorney",
      "aliases": [
        "the attorney connected with the bill-broking business"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed attorney who bids for David’s caul in a newspaper sale."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sage women",
      "aliases": [
        "the women in the neighbourhood"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed local women who predict that David will be unlucky and see ghosts."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two gentlemen at the hotel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Two unnamed yacht associates who meet Mr. Murdstone at the seaside hotel; one is Mr. Quinion and the other Mr. Passnidge."
    },
    {
      "name": "The servant-girl",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed household servant whom Miss Betsey mistakes for the expected baby."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Murdstone",
      "aliases": [
        "Jane Murdstone"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Murdstone’s elder sister, who reinforces his harsh discipline of David and later becomes Dora Spenlow’s companion."
    },
    {
      "name": "The dog",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A large, black-haired dog kept in the Copperfields’ kennel who springs at David when he returns from Yarmouth."
    },
    {
      "name": "The waiter",
      "aliases": [
        "waiter at the old inn"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed waiter at the Yarmouth inn who serves David and tells him alarming stories. Later he reports news of ships endangered by the storm."
    },
    {
      "name": "Topsawyer",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Topsawyer"
      ],
      "description": "A stout gentleman said by the Yarmouth waiter to have died after drinking the inn’s old ale."
    },
    {
      "name": "The guard",
      "aliases": [
        "George"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed guard on the coach taking David toward London."
    },
    {
      "name": "The coachman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed driver of the coach carrying David toward London."
    },
    {
      "name": "The husky-voiced gentleman",
      "aliases": [
        "the rough-faced gentleman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed passenger on David’s coach who jokes about his appetite."
    },
    {
      "name": "The other gentleman on the coach",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed passenger seated beside David overnight."
    },
    {
      "name": "The elderly lady in the fur cloak",
      "aliases": [
        "the lady with the basket"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed coach passenger who puts her basket beneath David’s legs and prods him when he moves."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Mell",
      "aliases": [
        "Master at Salem House",
        "the Master at Salem House",
        "the assistant"
      ],
      "description": "A mild, poor teacher at Salem House who treats David kindly. Steerforth humiliates him over his poverty and mother, leading to his dismissal; later he becomes a schoolmaster in Port Middlebay and presides at a dinner honouring Micawber."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Mell",
      "aliases": [
        "the old woman of the house",
        "the old woman at the alms-houses"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Mell’s poor, elderly mother, who lives in an almshouse and delights in her son’s flute playing. She later lives in Port Middlebay."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Fibbitson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A frail elderly woman who lives in the almshouses with Mrs. Mell."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tungay",
      "aliases": [
        "the man with the wooden leg"
      ],
      "description": "The surly, wooden-legged Salem House attendant who supervises David and relays Mr. Creakle’s words."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Creakle",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The harsh proprietor of Salem House, who beats pupils and makes David wear a placard saying he bites. He later becomes a Middlesex magistrate and promotes solitary confinement as prison discipline."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Creakle",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mr. Creakle’s quiet, thin wife. Her son reportedly protested his father’s treatment of her and was cast out."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Creakle",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mr. and Mrs. Creakle’s daughter, who attends Salem House."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Creakle’s son",
      "aliases": [
        "the son who assisted at Salem House"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. and Mrs. Creakle’s unnamed son, who helped at the school and reportedly protested his father’s cruelty; his father cast him out."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Sharp",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The senior master at Salem House, a delicate-looking man who wears a wig."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tommy Traddles",
      "aliases": [
        "Traddles"
      ],
      "description": "A good-natured, honourable Salem House pupil who befriends David and studies for the bar. He marries Sophy, who becomes his capable household manager and copying-clerk, and helps support her family; he later works busily in chambers and hopes to become a judge."
    },
    {
      "name": "J. Steerforth",
      "aliases": [
        "James Steerforth",
        "Steerforth"
      ],
      "description": "A handsome, influential Salem House pupil and David’s close friend. Capricious and dismissive toward poorer people, he elopes with Little Em’ly and abandons her abroad; he later dies trying to rescue a sailor from a wreck."
    },
    {
      "name": "George Demple",
      "aliases": [
        "Demple"
      ],
      "description": "A Salem House pupil whose father is a doctor."
    },
    {
      "name": "The new master",
      "aliases": [
        "the master from the grammar school"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed teacher from a grammar school who replaces Mr. Mell at Salem House."
    },
    {
      "name": "The man in gaiters with one eye",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed bystander at the London coach booking office who suggests tying David up in the stable."
    },
    {
      "name": "The boy called Exchange or Barter",
      "aliases": [
        "Exchange or Barter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Salem House pupil, son of a coal merchant, said to attend in exchange for the school’s coal bill."
    },
    {
      "name": "David’s baby brother",
      "aliases": [
        "David’s brother",
        "the baby"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed infant son of David’s mother and Mr. Murdstone, who dies shortly after his mother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Omer",
      "aliases": [
        "Omer"
      ],
      "description": "A cheerful Yarmouth draper and funeral furnisher who knew David’s father and measures David for mourning clothes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Minnie",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs. Joram"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Omer’s kind daughter, now married to Joram and mother of their children."
    },
    {
      "name": "Joram",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Joram"
      ],
      "description": "A young man who works with a hammer near Mr. Omer’s shop; he marries Minnie and joins the family business."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two young women at Omer’s",
      "aliases": [
        "the two girls"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed young women who work with Minnie on mourning materials."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Grayper",
      "aliases": [
        "David’s neighbour Mr. Grayper"
      ],
      "description": "A neighbour who accompanies David and Mr. Murdstone to David’s mother’s funeral."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Micawber",
      "aliases": [
        "Micawber",
        "Mr. Mortimer"
      ],
      "description": "A genial, eloquent but improvident man repeatedly imprisoned for debt. He becomes a clerk to Uriah Heep, whom he exposes for fraud and conspiracy, then emigrates to Australia, prospers as a district magistrate, and remains an esteemed writer and public speaker."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Micawber",
      "aliases": [
        "Emma"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Micawber’s devoted wife and mother of their children. She accompanies him to Australia and is celebrated there as his wife."
    },
    {
      "name": "Master Micawber",
      "aliases": [
        "Wilkins Micawber"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. and Mrs. Micawber’s son, a restless boy with a strong singing voice. As an adult, Wilkins Micawber, Esquire, Junior, sings at a public dinner and dances with Doctor Mell’s daughter Helena."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Micawber",
      "aliases": [
        "Emma",
        "Mrs. Ridger Begs",
        "late Miss Micawber"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. and Mrs. Micawber’s young daughter. Later known as Mrs. Ridger Begs, she is married and toasted at her father’s public dinner."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Micawber twins",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed twin children of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber."
    },
    {
      "name": "Clickett",
      "aliases": [
        "the Orfling"
      ],
      "description": "The Micawbers’ young servant, from St. Luke’s workhouse."
    },
    {
      "name": "The boot-maker creditor",
      "aliases": [
        "the revengeful boot-maker"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed creditor who demands payment from Mr. Micawber."
    },
    {
      "name": "The bookstall keeper",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed City Road bookseller who buys Mr. Micawber’s books from David."
    },
    {
      "name": "The bookstall keeper’s wife",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who scolds the bookstall keeper and completes sales with David."
    },
    {
      "name": "The pawnbroker",
      "aliases": [
        "the principal gentleman behind the counter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed pawnbroker who sometimes asks David to recite Latin."
    },
    {
      "name": "The other debtor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed debtor who shares Mr. Micawber’s room in the King’s Bench Prison."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Hopkins",
      "aliases": [
        "the Captain"
      ],
      "description": "A shabby debtor in the King’s Bench Prison who lends David a knife and fork and reads Mr. Micawber’s petition."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Hopkins’s daughters",
      "aliases": [
        "the two wan girls"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed, unkempt girls who are Captain Hopkins’s children."
    },
    {
      "name": "The dirty lady in Captain Hopkins’s room",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who shares Captain Hopkins’s room."
    },
    {
      "name": "The landlord of the public-house",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed London public-house landlord who questions David before serving him ale."
    },
    {
      "name": "The landlord’s wife",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who helps question David, then returns his money and kisses him compassionately."
    },
    {
      "name": "The carman’s wife",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman married to Tipp who lets rooms and is expected to lodge David."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mick Walker",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The oldest regular boy at Murdstone and Grinby’s warehouse, who shows David the work."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mealy Potatoes",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A warehouse boy at Murdstone and Grinby, nicknamed for his pale complexion."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mealy Potatoes’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "Mealy’s father"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed waterman who also works as a theatre fireman."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mealy Potatoes’s little sister",
      "aliases": [
        "Mealy’s little sister"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young relation of Mealy Potatoes who performs as an imp in pantomimes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gregory",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A foreman of the packers at Murdstone and Grinby’s warehouse."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tipp",
      "aliases": [
        "the carman"
      ],
      "description": "A carman at Murdstone and Grinby’s who is expected to lodge David."
    },
    {
      "name": "The warehouse men and boys",
      "aliases": [
        "the men and boys at Murdstone and Grinby’s"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed workers who share the warehouse with David."
    },
    {
      "name": "The clerk who gives Peggotty away",
      "aliases": [
        "the clerk"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed church clerk who gives Peggotty away at her wedding to Mr. Barkis."
    },
    {
      "name": "The coal-heavers dancing",
      "aliases": [
        "the coal-heavers"
      ],
      "description": "A group of unnamed coal-heavers whom David watches dancing."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Micawber’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs. Micawber’s mama"
      ],
      "description": "Mrs. Micawber’s late mother, whose pearl jewellery she inherited."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Micawber’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs. Micawber’s papa"
      ],
      "description": "Mrs. Micawber’s late father, who repeatedly helped Mr. Micawber financially."
    },
    {
      "name": "The long-legged young man",
      "aliases": [
        "the donkey-cart driver"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young man who carries David’s trunk, steals his money, and threatens him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The donkey",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed animal pulling the long-legged young man’s cart."
    },
    {
      "name": "The man from Murdstone and Grinby’s",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed warehouse worker who tells David the towns near Dover are close together."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Micawber’s family",
      "aliases": [
        "her family"
      ],
      "description": "Mrs. Micawber’s unnamed relatives, who advise the Micawbers to leave London for Plymouth."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Dolloby",
      "aliases": [
        "Dolloby"
      ],
      "description": "A second-hand clothes dealer who buys David’s waistcoat."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old clothes dealer in Chatham",
      "aliases": [
        "Charley"
      ],
      "description": "A drunken, frightening marine-store dealer who buys David’s jacket."
    },
    {
      "name": "The tinker",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed, threatening travelling tinker who takes David’s handkerchief and beats his companion."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman with the tinker",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman travelling with the tinker who signals David to flee."
    },
    {
      "name": "The fly-driver who helps David",
      "aliases": [
        "David’s good-natured informant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Dover fly-driver who recognizes David’s description of Miss Trotwood and points him toward her home."
    },
    {
      "name": "Janet",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Betsey’s handmaid",
        "my aunt’s handmaid"
      ],
      "description": "Miss Betsey’s young servant who helps care for David. After returning to Betsey’s service, she marries a prosperous tavern-keeper."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Dick",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Richard Babley"
      ],
      "description": "Miss Betsey’s distant relation and companion, whom she rescued from confinement in an asylum. Gentle and eccentric, he helps reconcile Doctor and Annie Strong."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Dick’s brother",
      "aliases": [
        "the brother who would have confined Mr. Dick"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Dick’s unnamed brother, who tried to have him shut away in an asylum."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Dick’s sister",
      "aliases": [
        "the favourite sister"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Dick’s beloved sister, whose unhappy marriage contributed to his illness."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Dick’s brother-in-law",
      "aliases": [
        "the husband of Mr. Dick’s sister"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man who married Mr. Dick’s sister and made her unhappy."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Lord Chancellor",
      "aliases": [
        "the Lord Somebody or other"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed Lord Chancellor, or another high official, to whom Mr. Dick addresses his Memorial."
    },
    {
      "name": "The fly-driver who drops the horsecloth",
      "aliases": [
        "the fly-driver"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Dover fly-driver whose horsecloth David returns; he gives directions and a penny."
    },
    {
      "name": "The shopkeeper weighing rice",
      "aliases": [
        "the man behind the counter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed shopkeeper near Miss Trotwood’s home."
    },
    {
      "name": "The boy attendant at Miss Trotwood’s garden",
      "aliases": [
        "the unlucky urchin",
        "the young malefactor",
        "the donkey’s guardian"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed boy who accompanies a donkey onto Miss Betsey’s green and is later pursued by her."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sandy-headed donkey-boy",
      "aliases": [
        "the young rascal"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed donkey-boy of about fifteen who repeatedly trespasses on Miss Betsey’s green."
    },
    {
      "name": "The saddle-donkeys",
      "aliases": [
        "the lady-ridden donkeys"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed donkeys ridden by ladies that trespass on Miss Betsey’s green."
    },
    {
      "name": "The donkey ridden by Miss Murdstone",
      "aliases": [
        "the third animal"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed donkey carrying a child attendant and later ridden by Miss Murdstone onto Miss Betsey’s green."
    },
    {
      "name": "The boy riding the donkey",
      "aliases": [
        "the bestriding child"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed child carried on the donkey Miss Betsey leads off her lawn."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Wickfield",
      "aliases": [
        "Wickfield"
      ],
      "description": "A Canterbury lawyer and steward, and Miss Betsey’s friend. Agnes’s father, he falls under Uriah Heep’s influence and confesses that grief and indulgence have led to his ruin; he later rebuilds a quiet life with Agnes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Uriah Heep",
      "aliases": [
        "Uriah"
      ],
      "description": "A pale, red-haired clerk and lawyer who gains influence over Mr. Wickfield and becomes his business partner. He declares his ambition to marry Agnes, is exposed by Mr. Micawber for fraud and conspiracy, and later poses as a model penitent in prison after a Bank fraud, forgery and conspiracy conviction."
    },
    {
      "name": "Agnes Wickfield",
      "aliases": [
        "Agnes"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Wickfield’s daughter and capable housekeeper, devoted to her father and a source of goodness and guidance for David. She and David marry after revealing that she has loved him all her life."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Wickfield",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Wickfield’s late wife",
        "Agnes’s mother"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Wickfield’s gentle first wife and Agnes’s mother, who died when Agnes was two weeks old after her father rejected and disowned her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Doctor Strong",
      "aliases": [
        "Dr. Strong",
        "the Doctor",
        "the old Doctor"
      ],
      "description": "A kind scholar who runs a Canterbury school and compiles a Greek-root dictionary. He retires to London and hires David as his secretary; his trust in Annie endures despite years of misunderstanding."
    },
    {
      "name": "Annie Strong",
      "aliases": [
        "Annie",
        "Mrs. Strong"
      ],
      "description": "Doctor Strong’s young wife, daughter of his late friend and once Jack Maldon’s childhood playmate. She loves and venerates the Doctor, but hid her distress over suspicions that her marriage was mercenary and Maldon’s improper advance."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jack Maldon",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Jack Maldon",
        "John Maldon",
        "Mr. Maldon",
        "Cousin Maldon"
      ],
      "description": "Annie Strong’s cousin and former playfellow, for whom Doctor Strong arranges employment. He returns from India, later elopes with Little Em’ly, and abandons her abroad; in later life he holds a post and moves in Miss Mills’s wealthy social circle."
    },
    {
      "name": "Adams",
      "aliases": [
        "the head-boy"
      ],
      "description": "The affable head boy at Doctor Strong’s school, talented at mathematics."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Markleham",
      "aliases": [
        "the Old Soldier",
        "Mrs. Strong’s mama",
        "Annie’s mother"
      ],
      "description": "Annie Strong’s pleasure-loving, intrusive mother, who presses Doctor Strong to support her relatives and Jack Maldon. Her meddling fuels Annie’s fear that her marriage appears mercenary; later her influence is much reduced."
    },
    {
      "name": "The beggar-woman with the infant",
      "aliases": [
        "the beggar-woman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who reportedly received Doctor Strong’s gaiters and later begged door to door with an infant wrapped in them."
    },
    {
      "name": "The infant exhibited by the beggar-woman",
      "aliases": [
        "the fine infant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed baby reportedly carried door to door by the beggar-woman."
    },
    {
      "name": "King Charles the First",
      "aliases": [
        "King Charles I",
        "King Charles"
      ],
      "description": "The historical king whose execution date Mr. Dick recalls."
    },
    {
      "name": "The man hiding near Miss Betsey’s house",
      "aliases": [
        "the man who frightens Miss Betsey"
      ],
      "description": "An unidentified man who, according to Mr. Dick, approached Miss Betsey and whispered to her; she secretly gave him money."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Heep",
      "aliases": [
        "Uriah’s mother"
      ],
      "description": "Uriah Heep’s widowed mother, who lives with him and shares his exaggerated show of humility. When his fraud is exposed, she pleads for mercy and retrieves the deed and papers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Shepherd",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A young boarder at the Misses Nettingalls’ school whom David adores; she later prefers Master Jones."
    },
    {
      "name": "Master Jones",
      "aliases": [
        "Jones"
      ],
      "description": "A boy whom Miss Shepherd prefers to David."
    },
    {
      "name": "The first boy at Doctor Strong’s school",
      "aliases": [
        "the first boy"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed pupil who ranks above David at school."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young butcher",
      "aliases": [
        "the butcher"
      ],
      "description": "A Canterbury butcher who bullies Doctor Strong’s pupils and fights David."
    },
    {
      "name": "The butcher’s two companions",
      "aliases": [
        "the two other butchers"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed butchers who attend the young butcher during his fight with David."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young publican at the fight",
      "aliases": [
        "the publican"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young publican who attends the young butcher during his fight with David."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sweep at the fight",
      "aliases": [
        "the sweep"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed sweep who attends the young butcher during his fight with David."
    },
    {
      "name": "David’s second",
      "aliases": [
        "his second"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed boy who acts as David’s second during his first fight with the young butcher."
    },
    {
      "name": "The eldest Miss Larkins",
      "aliases": [
        "the eldest Miss Larkins"
      ],
      "description": "A tall, dark-haired woman whom David idealizes; she later marries Mr. Chestle."
    },
    {
      "name": "The youngest Miss Larkins",
      "aliases": [
        "the youngest Miss Larkins"
      ],
      "description": "The younger of the two Larkins sisters."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Larkins",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The gruff father of the Miss Larkins sisters."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Bailey",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An officer who dances with the eldest Miss Larkins at a ball."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Chestle",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An older hop-grower who marries the eldest Miss Larkins."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Misses Nettingalls",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed women who run the boarding school attended by Miss Shepherd."
    },
    {
      "name": "William",
      "aliases": [
        "the coachman"
      ],
      "description": "The coachman driving David from Canterbury toward London."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman behind David on the coach",
      "aliases": [
        "the man who bred Suffolk Punches"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed passenger who claims to breed horses and dogs and takes David’s box seat."
    },
    {
      "name": "The waiter at the Golden Cross",
      "aliases": [
        "the waiter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed waiter at the Golden Cross who serves David."
    },
    {
      "name": "The chambermaid at the Golden Cross",
      "aliases": [
        "the chambermaid"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed chambermaid who shows David to his room."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Steerforth",
      "aliases": [
        "Steerforth’s mother"
      ],
      "description": "Steerforth’s widowed mother, devoted to her son. After learning of his death, she becomes unresponsive with grief, and Rosa Dartle remains at her side."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Rosa Dartle",
      "aliases": [
        "Rosa",
        "Miss Dartle"
      ],
      "description": "A sharp, watchful companion to Mrs. Steerforth, scarred by Steerforth as a child. She loved him, confronts his mother with her grief and anger, and stays to care for her after his death."
    },
    {
      "name": "Littimer",
      "aliases": [
        "Peter",
        "Steerforth’s servant",
        "Mr. Littimer"
      ],
      "description": "Steerforth’s taciturn, respectable-looking servant who helped facilitate Em’ly’s departure and later accompanied her abroad. He was convicted of robbing his young master and transported; in prison he presents himself as a penitent and blames his former companions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Steerforth’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Steerforth"
      ],
      "description": "Steerforth’s late father, whose absence Steerforth regrets."
    },
    {
      "name": "Joe Omer",
      "aliases": [
        "Joe"
      ],
      "description": "Minnie and Joram’s young son and Mr. Omer’s grandson."
    },
    {
      "name": "Minnie and Joram’s younger child",
      "aliases": [
        "the youngest",
        "Minnie and Joram’s little girl"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed young daughter of Minnie and Joram, close to Em’ly."
    },
    {
      "name": "The poor lunatic gentleman",
      "aliases": [
        "the lunatic gentleman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man living in the Copperfields’ former home in Blunderstone."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Chillip’s second wife",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Chillip’s wife",
        "Mrs. Chillip"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Chillip’s second wife, whose inheritance from her father enables him to buy a medical practice near Bury St. Edmund’s. He credits her observations about the Murdstones’ cruelty."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Chillip’s baby",
      "aliases": [
        "the weazen little baby"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed infant of Mr. Chillip and his second wife."
    },
    {
      "name": "Martha Endell",
      "aliases": [
        "Martha"
      ],
      "description": "A young woman once shunned in Yarmouth, whom Em’ly helped leave for London. She searched for Em’ly and emigrates with Mr. Peggotty; she later marries a farm-labourer and settles with him in the Australian bush, far from other neighbours."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Mowcher",
      "aliases": [
        "Mowcher"
      ],
      "description": "A diminutive professional beauty and grooming specialist who realizes she was deceived into helping Em’ly contact Littimer and vows to aid Em’ly. She later identifies Littimer in disguise, helps capture him, and gives evidence at his trial."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lady Mithers",
      "aliases": [
        "Lady Mithers"
      ],
      "description": "A client of Miss Mowcher."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mithers",
      "aliases": [
        "Mithers"
      ],
      "description": "Lady Mithers’s husband, mentioned by Miss Mowcher."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Russian Prince",
      "aliases": [
        "the Prince"
      ],
      "description": "A Russian client of Miss Mowcher."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charley Pyegrave",
      "aliases": [
        "Charley"
      ],
      "description": "A duke’s son and Life Guardsman, mentioned by Miss Mowcher as a client."
    },
    {
      "name": "The elderly female at the perfumer’s",
      "aliases": [
        "the Griffin"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman in a perfumer’s shop who mistakes Charley Pyegrave’s request for moustache dye as a request for rouge."
    },
    {
      "name": "Long Ned Beadwood",
      "aliases": [
        "Ned Beadwood"
      ],
      "description": "A man whom Miss Mowcher says was taken to church to marry and left without the bride."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Bond",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A name Miss Mowcher uses while inviting Steerforth to submit to her grooming."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Spenlow",
      "aliases": [
        "Spenlow",
        "Francis"
      ],
      "description": "A proctor at Doctors’ Commons, Dora’s father and the late brother of Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa. His death changes his sisters’ view of Dora’s position."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Jorkins",
      "aliases": [
        "Jorkins"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Spenlow’s partner, whom Spenlow presents as strict and immovable."
    },
    {
      "name": "The dry man at Spenlow and Jorkins’s",
      "aliases": [
        "the dry man",
        "the clerk"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed clerk and copyist who receives David and his aunt at the office."
    },
    {
      "name": "The presiding judge at Doctors’ Commons",
      "aliases": [
        "the judge"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed elderly judge who presides over a court David visits."
    },
    {
      "name": "The doctors at Doctors’ Commons",
      "aliases": [
        "the Doctors"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed advocates in red gowns and grey wigs whom David sees in court."
    },
    {
      "name": "The shabby-genteel man in court",
      "aliases": [
        "the man eating crumbs"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed member of the public at Doctors’ Commons who warms himself and eats crumbs."
    },
    {
      "name": "The boy in court",
      "aliases": [
        "the boy with a comforter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed member of the public at Doctors’ Commons."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Crupp",
      "aliases": [
        "Crupp"
      ],
      "description": "A stout landlady who rents David furnished chambers and offers him advice."
    },
    {
      "name": "The deceased former occupant",
      "aliases": [
        "the former occupant"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed previous tenant of David’s Adelphi chambers, who died there of drink and smoking."
    },
    {
      "name": "The handy young man",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed waiter hired by Mrs. Crupp who is caught drinking from the bottles."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young gal",
      "aliases": [
        "the young female"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young woman hired to wash dishes at David’s dinner party."
    },
    {
      "name": "Grainger",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "One of Steerforth’s Oxford friends, who attends dinner at David’s chambers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Markham",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "One of Steerforth’s Oxford friends, who attends dinner at David’s chambers."
    },
    {
      "name": "The ticket-porter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed porter who delivers Agnes’s letter and later serves at the Waterbrooks’ dinner in disguise."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Waterbrook",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The solicitor who is Agnes’s father’s agent and hosts a dinner for David and others."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Waterbrook",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mr. Waterbrook’s wife, who invites David to dinner."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Henry Spiker",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Spiker"
      ],
      "description": "A cold, grey-headed solicitor with a Treasury connection."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Henry Spiker",
      "aliases": [
        "Hamlet’s aunt"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Henry Spiker’s severe-looking wife."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Henry Spiker’s brother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed man expected at the Waterbrooks’ dinner but absent through illness."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Gulpidge",
      "aliases": [
        "Gulpidge"
      ],
      "description": "A dinner guest with a connection to the Bank’s legal business."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Gulpidge",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mr. Gulpidge’s wife and a guest at the Waterbrooks’ dinner."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Tiffey",
      "aliases": [
        "the old clerk with the wig"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly clerk at Doctors’ Commons who has visited Mr. Spenlow’s home."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Lord mentioned by Mr. Gulpidge",
      "aliases": [
        "Lord N."
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed lord to whom a bond-related question was referred."
    },
    {
      "name": "K.",
      "aliases": [
        "the next in reversion"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed person next in reversion who refused to sign a document connected with a bond."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dora Spenlow",
      "aliases": [
        "Dora"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Spenlow’s young daughter, whom David loves and marries. Affectionate but lacking confidence in practical household matters, she grows ill and cannot recover."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jip",
      "aliases": [
        "Gipsy"
      ],
      "description": "Dora Spenlow’s little dog, jealous of David and devoted to Dora. He grows old and dies while Dora is dying."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old gentleman at the dinner",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed grey-headed great-grandfather who talks with Dora at Mr. Spenlow’s dinner."
    },
    {
      "name": "The amiable gentleman with the polished head",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed dinner guest who asks David about the grounds and tells him a gardening story."
    },
    {
      "name": "The simpering gentleman with weak legs",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed guest who escorts Agnes to dinner and praises aristocratic blood."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman lounging with an opera-glass",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed man David glimpses lounging at the theatre."
    },
    {
      "name": "The theatre ticket-taker",
      "aliases": [
        "the man in the pigeon-hole"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man who collects payment at the theatre entrance."
    },
    {
      "name": "The family servant at the Waterbrooks’",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed servant who helps carry guests’ names upstairs."
    },
    {
      "name": "The baker’s proctor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed proctor representing a baker in a Doctors’ Commons case."
    },
    {
      "name": "The baker",
      "aliases": [
        "the excommunicated baker"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed baker excommunicated for six weeks after objecting to a paving-rate."
    },
    {
      "name": "The judge in the Consistory",
      "aliases": [
        "the Consistory judge"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed judge in the ecclesiastical court who hears the case against the baker."
    },
    {
      "name": "The advocates in the baker’s case",
      "aliases": [
        "the advocates on both sides"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed advocates in the Consistory case against the baker."
    },
    {
      "name": "The curate’s daughter",
      "aliases": [
        "Traddles’s fiancée",
        "Sophy"
      ],
      "description": "Sophy Crewler, a Devonshire curate’s daughter, one of ten children, engaged to and now married to Traddles. She cares for her invalid mother and younger siblings, manages their home, and learns legal copying to assist her husband."
    },
    {
      "name": "Yawler",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Salem House alumnus who helped Traddles begin copying legal documents and recommended him to law offices."
    },
    {
      "name": "The milkman at Traddles’s lodging",
      "aliases": [
        "the milkman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed milkman who demands payment for a long-overdue bill at Traddles’s lodging."
    },
    {
      "name": "The youthful servant at Traddles’s lodging",
      "aliases": [
        "the youthful servant girl"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young household servant at Traddles’s lodging."
    },
    {
      "name": "The pleasant-faced servant at Steerforth’s house",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed servant who answers David and Mr. Peggotty at the Steerforth home after Littimer’s departure."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old woman employed at Peggotty’s house",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who helps with Peggotty’s household."
    },
    {
      "name": "Minnie and Joram’s little girl",
      "aliases": [
        "Minnie and Joram’s younger child",
        "the youngest"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed young daughter of Minnie and Joram, close to Em’ly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Mills",
      "aliases": [
        "Julia"
      ],
      "description": "Dora’s friend who encourages her romance with David and helps them reconcile. She leaves for India with her father and later returns wealthy, married to an older Scottish man, living in luxury but dissatisfied."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Mills",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Miss Mills’s father, who goes to India as a resident partner."
    },
    {
      "name": "The man with the red whisker",
      "aliases": [
        "Red Whisker"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young man at Dora’s picnic who courts her attention."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Kitt",
      "aliases": [
        "the creature in pink",
        "the young creature in pink"
      ],
      "description": "A young woman at Dora’s picnic who receives David’s flirtatious attention."
    },
    {
      "name": "The mother in green",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman, mother of Miss Kitt, who separates her daughter from David."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Blackboy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A name David considers using as a pretext when nervous about knocking at Miss Mills’s door."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old man breaking stones",
      "aliases": [
        "the old man in wire spectacles"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man breaking stones on the road to Highgate."
    },
    {
      "name": "The beggar who says “Blind!”",
      "aliases": [
        "the beggar in the street"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed beggar who says “Blind!” to David."
    },
    {
      "name": "The immense butcher’s dog",
      "aliases": [
        "the butcher’s dog"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed large dog in the street that Jip barks at."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two Miss Spenlows",
      "aliases": [
        "Dora’s aunts"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Spenlow’s two maiden sisters, who take Dora into their home after his death and permit David to visit her under strict conditions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Lavinia",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Spenlow"
      ],
      "description": "Dora’s aunt and Mr. Spenlow’s sister, who manages the conference with David and Traddles and supervises David’s visits to Dora."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Clarissa",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Spenlow"
      ],
      "description": "Dora’s aunt and Mr. Spenlow’s sister, who supports Lavinia’s conditions for David’s visits."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Pidger",
      "aliases": [
        "Pidger"
      ],
      "description": "A man whom Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa believed had been in love with Lavinia; David doubts he ever expressed such feelings."
    },
    {
      "name": "The English gentleman in authority",
      "aliases": [
        "the English gentleman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed English official in France who gives Mr. Peggotty papers to help him travel in search of Em’ly and offers him money."
    },
    {
      "name": "The traveller’s house keeper",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed person who runs a clean, plain lodging on the Dover Road where Mr. Peggotty expects to stay."
    },
    {
      "name": "The uncle’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "Traddles’s uncle’s wife"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who could not bear Traddles’s upright hair."
    },
    {
      "name": "Reverend Horace Crewler",
      "aliases": [
        "the Reverend Horace"
      ],
      "description": "Sophy’s father, a curate, who urged his wife to reconcile herself to Sophy’s engagement to Traddles and officiates at their wedding. Traddles later helps him obtain a living."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Crewler",
      "aliases": [
        "Sophy’s mother"
      ],
      "description": "The wife of Reverend Horace Crewler. She fainted when Traddles’s engagement to Sophy was first raised, but later accepts their marriage; she is deceased by the time of the final retrospect."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sarah Crewler",
      "aliases": [
        "Sarah"
      ],
      "description": "Sophy’s sister, who has a spinal ailment and reacted intensely to the news of Sophy’s engagement."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Beauty",
      "aliases": [
        "the eldest sister",
        "Caroline"
      ],
      "description": "Sophy’s eldest sister, Caroline, nicknamed the Beauty. She later becomes a widow with a little girl after an unhappy marriage to a vagabond, and lives with Traddles and Sophy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sophy’s eight other siblings",
      "aliases": [
        "the other eight"
      ],
      "description": "Eight unnamed siblings of Sophy who reacted emotionally to her engagement to Traddles."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sophy’s two little sisters",
      "aliases": [
        "the two little ones",
        "Margaret",
        "Lucy"
      ],
      "description": "Sophy’s two youngest sisters, whom she educated and who once detested Traddles for taking her away."
    },
    {
      "name": "The soldier travelling to see his friends",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed poor soldier who travels alongside Mr. Peggotty for part of his journey through France."
    },
    {
      "name": "Paragon",
      "aliases": [
        "Mary Anne"
      ],
      "description": "David and Dora’s first housemaid, whose neglectful housekeeping and unauthorized borrowing cause them trouble."
    },
    {
      "name": "Paragon’s cousin",
      "aliases": [
        "the cousin in the Life-Guards"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Life Guardsman and Paragon’s cousin, whose imposing size and visits are conspicuous in David and Dora’s cottage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Kidgerbury",
      "aliases": [
        "the oldest inhabitant of Kentish Town"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly charwoman who briefly works for David and Dora but is too feeble to carry out her cleaning plans."
    },
    {
      "name": "The servant who falls on the kitchen stairs",
      "aliases": [
        "the amiable servant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed amiable housemaid in David and Dora’s household who repeatedly falls with trays and is dismissed after causing damage."
    },
    {
      "name": "The servant who wears Dora’s bonnet",
      "aliases": [
        "the young person of genteel appearance"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed later housemaid in David and Dora’s household who wears Dora’s bonnet to Greenwich Fair."
    },
    {
      "name": "The washerwoman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed laundress who pawns David and Dora’s clothes and apologizes while intoxicated."
    },
    {
      "name": "The beadle",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed parish official whom David accuses of perjury after a household incident."
    },
    {
      "name": "The postman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed postman who brings Uriah Heep letters at Highgate."
    },
    {
      "name": "The pew-opener",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who arranges David and Dora’s party at the church altar during their wedding."
    },
    {
      "name": "The church clerk at David and Dora’s wedding",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed clerk who assists at the ceremony."
    },
    {
      "name": "The ancient mariner at David and Dora’s wedding",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed sailor in the church congregation whose breath smells strongly of rum."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Betsey Trotwood’s husband",
      "aliases": [
        "my aunt’s husband",
        "Betsey’s husband"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man whom Betsey once loved and married. He squandered the fortune she left him, treated her cruelly, later became an adventurer, gambler and cheat, and periodically returns to demand money."
    },
    {
      "name": "The page",
      "aliases": [
        "the boy employed by David and Dora"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, tearful household servant with no known family except a sister. He steals Dora’s watch, confesses to other household thefts and a pot-boy’s burglary plan, and is transported; David later hears he became a shepherd abroad."
    },
    {
      "name": "The page’s sister",
      "aliases": [
        "the page’s sister who fled to America"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed sister of David and Dora’s page, who fled to America after they took him into their household."
    },
    {
      "name": "The cook",
      "aliases": [
        "the household cook"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed cook in David and Dora’s household whose conduct is exposed by the page’s confessions; she has a little girl who takes their bread."
    },
    {
      "name": "The cook’s little girl",
      "aliases": [
        "the cook’s daughter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed girl who, according to the page, takes bread from David and Dora’s household early each morning."
    },
    {
      "name": "The pot-boy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed boy whom the page says intended to burgle David and Dora’s premises."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young woman who shelters Em’ly",
      "aliases": [
        "Em’ly’s friend in the foreign country",
        "the good young woman"
      ],
      "description": "A young wife abroad who takes in Em’ly after finding her ill on the shore, hides and cares for her, and helps her travel back toward England. At the time, her husband is away at sea and she is expecting a child."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young woman’s husband",
      "aliases": [
        "the husband away at sea"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed husband of the young woman who shelters Em’ly; he is away at sea when she takes Em’ly into their cottage."
    },
    {
      "name": "The young woman’s baby",
      "aliases": [
        "the good young woman’s baby"
      ],
      "description": "The child of the young woman who sheltered Em’ly. Mr. Peggotty hopes the baby is now a comfort to its kind mother."
    },
    {
      "name": "The little girl on the beach abroad",
      "aliases": [
        "the child who offers Em’ly a shell"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed child playing on the beach who calls Em’ly “Fisherman’s daughter” and offers her a shell, helping Em’ly recover her own language."
    },
    {
      "name": "Minnie Omer’s granddaughter",
      "aliases": [
        "the little Minnie",
        "the little elephant"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Omer’s young granddaughter and Minnie’s daughter. She cheerfully pushes his wheeled chair around the shop."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sheriff’s officer",
      "aliases": [
        "the officer who takes Mr. Micawber into custody"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed officer who takes Mr. Micawber into custody under a writ; the group pays the debt and costs to secure his release."
    },
    {
      "name": "The pretty girl among the inn watchers",
      "aliases": [
        "the girl with her ears stopped by her apron"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young woman among the inn’s storm watchers. She screams when David enters, mistaking him for a spirit."
    },
    {
      "name": "The half-dressed boatman",
      "aliases": [
        "the boatman with the tattooed arrow"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed boatman on the beach who points David toward the wreck and helps explain the danger to the men aboard."
    },
    {
      "name": "The coachman on the mail to Yarmouth",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed coachman who tells David the stormy sky signals danger at sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "The boat-builder at Ham’s yard",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed boat-builder at Ham’s workplace who tells David Ham has gone to Lowestoft and assures him Ham will not risk returning by sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "The active sailor with curling hair",
      "aliases": [
        "the active figure on the wreck"
      ],
      "description": "An unidentified sailor conspicuous among the crew of the wrecked schooner, working to cut away broken rigging. He is later left clinging alone to the mast during the storm."
    },
    {
      "name": "The fisherman who knew David",
      "aliases": [
        "the fisherman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed fisherman who has known David since childhood and tells him that a body has come ashore after the wreck."
    },
    {
      "name": "The little parlour-maid",
      "aliases": [
        "the parlour-maid"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young servant at the Steerforth home who admits David and carries his message to Mrs. Steerforth."
    },
    {
      "name": "The spare waiter at the Gray’s Inn Coffee-house",
      "aliases": [
        "the middle-aged waiter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, middle-aged waiter who gives David directions to Traddles’s chambers and consults the chief waiter."
    },
    {
      "name": "The chief waiter at the Gray’s Inn Coffee-house",
      "aliases": [
        "the potential waiter",
        "the portentous waiter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, imposing waiter who dismisses David’s question about Traddles’s reputation and serves him at the coffee-house."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old gentleman at the Gray’s Inn Coffee-house",
      "aliases": [
        "the retired conveyancer"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed wealthy retired conveyancer who dines at the Gray’s Inn Coffee-house and is rumoured to leave his fortune to his laundress’s daughter."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sharp-looking lad at Traddles’s chambers",
      "aliases": [
        "the half-footboy and half-clerk",
        "the sharp boy"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young servant and clerk in Traddles’s chambers who manages the papers and tea service."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louisa Crewler",
      "aliases": [
        "Louisa"
      ],
      "description": "One of Sophy Crewler’s sisters, staying with Sophy and Traddles in London."
    },
    {
      "name": "The member of Mrs. Micawber’s family",
      "aliases": [
        "the Member"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed relative of Mrs. Micawber who comes to see the family before their emigration."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Murdstone",
      "aliases": [
        "the present Mrs. Murdstone"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Murdstone’s second wife, a young woman from the Bury St. Edmund’s area with a small inheritance. Mr. Chillip hears that Mr. Murdstone and Miss Murdstone have nearly reduced her to imbecility through tyranny, gloom and worry."
    },
    {
      "name": "Agnes’s maternal grandfather",
      "aliases": [
        "Agnes’s grandfather"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed hard man who disowned his daughter after she married Mr. Wickfield against his wishes. He rejected her plea for forgiveness before Agnes was born, breaking her heart."
    },
    {
      "name": "Agnes Copperfield",
      "aliases": [
        "little Agnes",
        "the eldest child"
      ],
      "description": "David and Agnes’s eldest child, a little girl with golden curls. She welcomes Mr. Peggotty when he visits their home."
    },
    {
      "name": "The prison warder who explains the cases",
      "aliases": [
        "the warder"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed prison warder who tells David and Traddles that Uriah Heep was convicted of Bank fraud, forgery and conspiracy, and that Littimer was convicted of robbing a young master."
    },
    {
      "name": "The patient before the Commission of Lunacy",
      "aliases": [
        "the patient who had become deranged from excessive drinking"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed patient whose mental condition Mr. Chillip is to assess for a Commission of Lunacy; the passage attributes his derangement to excessive drinking."
    },
    {
      "name": "The other two Copperfield children",
      "aliases": [
        "David and Agnes’s other children"
      ],
      "description": "The two unnamed younger children of David and Agnes, seen playing with their family when Mr. Peggotty visits."
    },
    {
      "name": "The farm-labourer who marries Martha",
      "aliases": [
        "Martha’s husband"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed farm-labourer who meets Martha while travelling to market and marries her. They establish a home together in the Australian bush."
    },
    {
      "name": "The ship’s cook who marries Mrs. Gummidge",
      "aliases": [
        "the cook who was turning settler"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed ship’s cook settling in Australia who offers to marry Mrs. Gummidge; she accepts by dropping a bucket over his head, and Mr. Peggotty rescues him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Port Middlebay Times reporter",
      "aliases": [
        "the newspaper correspondent"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed journalist who writes up Wilkins Micawber’s public dinner and reproduces Micawber’s letter to David."
    },
    {
      "name": "Helena Mell",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Helena",
        "the lovely and accomplished Miss Helena"
      ],
      "description": "The fourth daughter of Doctor Mell, who dances with Wilkins Micawber, Esquire, Junior, at a public dinner."
    },
    {
      "name": "Betsey Trotwood Copperfield",
      "aliases": [
        "a real living Betsey Trotwood"
      ],
      "description": "David and Agnes’s daughter, named after Miss Betsey Trotwood. She is Miss Betsey’s goddaughter."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Beauty’s daughter",
      "aliases": [
        "the little girl"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed daughter of Caroline Crewler, the Beauty, who lives with her widowed mother in Traddles and Sophy’s household."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Beauty’s husband",
      "aliases": [
        "the vagabond"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man who married Caroline Crewler, the Beauty, and is described as a vagabond; she is later a widow."
    },
    {
      "name": "The three married Crewler daughters’ husbands",
      "aliases": [
        "the three husbands"
      ],
      "description": "Three unnamed men married to Sophy’s sisters, present at Traddles and Sophy’s family dinner."
    },
    {
      "name": "The brother of one of the Crewler daughters’ husbands",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the husband’s brothers"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man attending the family dinner as the brother of one of Sophy’s sisters’ husbands."
    },
    {
      "name": "The cousin of one of the Crewler daughters’ husbands",
      "aliases": [
        "another husband’s cousin"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed cousin of one of Sophy’s sisters’ husbands, present at the family dinner."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sister of one of the Crewler daughters’ husbands",
      "aliases": [
        "another husband’s sister"
      ],
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