# Mrs. Piper — Bleak House character guide

> Mrs. Piper in Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** young Piper

**First appearance:** 0011-x-the-law-writer

## Who they are

A neighbor in the court who gossips about the Krook affair.

## In the story

### [The Appointed Time](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bleak_house_se/chapters/xxxii-the-appointed-time)

One of the neighborhood women gossiping about Krook, his lodger, and the Harmonic Meeting, illustrating the local community's chatter.

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