# Miss Mills — David Copperfield character guide

> Miss Mills in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Happy Miss Mills, Julia Mills, Julia

**First appearance:** 0029-xxvi-i-fall-into-captivity

## Who they are

Dora's sentimental friend and confidante.

## In the story

### [Blissful](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/david_copperfield_se/chapters/xxxiii-blissful)

Dora's friend, a wise and experienced young woman who facilitates David's courtship by inviting him to call.

### [A Dissolution of Partnership](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/david_copperfield_se/chapters/xxxviii-a-dissolution-of-partnership)

Miss Mills serves as a go-between for David and Dora, keeping a sentimental journal of Dora's moods and facilitating a clandestine meeting in her back kitchen.

### [A Last Retrospect](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/david_copperfield_se/chapters/lxiv-a-last-retrospect)

Now Julia Mills, married to a growling old Scotch Croesus, steeped in money and quarreling eternally, no longer keeping a diary.

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