Clara Barley
Herbert's sweet-natured fiancée, who looks after her bedridden father by the river.
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Compeyson
A smooth swindler who hides a criminal life behind a gentleman's manners.
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Molly
Jaggers's silent, watchful housekeeper with unusually strong hands.
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Startop
A gentle, bookish young man who studies with Pip and becomes a loyal friend.
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Bentley Drummle
A rich, sulky young heir who studies with Pip and despises everyone.
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Matthew Pocket
Herbert's kind, bewildered father and Pip's tutor in a very chaotic house.
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The Aged Parent
Wemmick's very old, very deaf, very cheerful father at the Castle.
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John Wemmick
Jaggers's dry clerk with a post-office mouth — who keeps a very different self at home.
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Herbert Pocket
A cheerful, generous young gentleman with little money and big hopes — and Pip's roommate.
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Trabb's boy
The tailor's cheeky errand boy, who refuses to be impressed by anyone.
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Dolge Orlick
Joe's sullen journeyman at the forge, who resents Pip.
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Mr Jaggers
A formidable London criminal lawyer who trusts nothing but evidence.
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Estella
A beautiful, scornful girl raised by Miss Havisham at Satis House.
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Miss Havisham
A rich, strange recluse who still wears her wedding dress in a house where every clock has stopped.
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Biddy
A clever, kind orphan girl who helps run the village evening school.
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Mr Wopsle
The parish clerk with a booming voice who dreams of the stage.
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Uncle Pumblechook
Joe's pompous uncle, a seed merchant who loves to lecture and take credit.
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Abel Magwitch
A starving convict in grey, escaped from the prison ships, who seizes Pip in the churchyard.
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Mrs Joe Gargery
Pip's older sister, who never lets anyone forget that she brought him up 'by hand'.
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Joe Gargery
The village blacksmith: huge, gentle, and Pip's truest friend.
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Pip
An orphan boy from the Kentish marshes, raised 'by hand' by his sister and her blacksmith husband.
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