# Clara Barley — Great Expectations character guide

> Clara Barley in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Clara, Miss Clara Barley, pretty Clara, Clara Barley

**First appearance:** 0046-xlvii

## Who they are

Gentle young woman who marries Herbert Pocket after caring for her bedridden father.

## Relationships

### [Herbert Pocket](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/great_expectations_se/characters/herbert_pocket)

_romantic_

Clara is Herbert's loving, devoted fiancée and later wife, providing him with a warm, stable home life.

### [Herbert Pocket](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/great_expectations_se/characters/herbert_pocket)

_romantic_

Clara is Herbert's loving, devoted fiancée and later wife, providing him with a warm, stable home life.

## In the story

### [XLV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/great_expectations_se/chapters/xlv)

Clara is Herbert's affianced, who has a bedridden father; she has not yet met Pip but exchanges messages through Herbert.

### [Chapter XLVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/great_expectations_se/chapters/xlvi)

Introduced as Herbert's gentle, loving fiancée, caring for her father Old Barley.

### [LII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/great_expectations_se/chapters/lii)

Herbert speaks of taking Clara to the land of the Arabian Nights, indicating their future together.

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