# Miss Mowcher — David Copperfield character guide

> Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the wary Mowcher, Mowcher, little Mowcher, Little Mowcher, Excellent Miss Mowcher

**First appearance:** 0025-xxii-some-old-scenes-and-some-new-people

## Snapshot

A tiny, quick-witted hairdresser and manicurist who moves through great houses with sharp eyes and a sharper tongue, missing nothing.

## Who they are

Miss Mowcher is a dwarf who earns her living attending to the hair and hands of fashionable ladies, and she carries herself with a theatrical self-possession that disarms the people who underestimate her. She is fond of gossip, fond of a joke, and not above a little matchmaking, but she is also more perceptive and more principled than her clients assume. When she realizes she has been used as a tool in someone else's cruelty, her anger is real, and it turns her into an unexpected ally.

## In the story

### [The Beginning of a Long Journey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/david_copperfield_se/chapters/xxxii-the-beginning-of-a-long-journey)

Arrives in distress, expressing guilt and sorrow over her role in the events, and lamenting being treated as a plaything.

### [LXI: I Am Shown Two Interesting Penitents](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/david_copperfield_se/chapters/lxi-i-am-shown-two-interesting-penitents)

Mentioned as the dwarf who bravely captured a criminal, earning David's respect.

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