She is the David's mother, when she gave birth to him she was very young and six months had gone since she had left widow of David Copperfield senior, who had two times her age and love her deeply.

          She met her first husband in a house that him frequented and where she work as governess (a job very usual for the young women of good family in that epoch). Clara is a loving and sensitive young lady but a little conceited in her  youth and beauty and she is of easy management too, that can be view when she falls under the influence of Mr Edward Murdstone, her second husband. Mr Murdstone try constantly to subject her and the other occupants of Rockery (the Copperfield's home) to his firms impositions. this subjection is aggrieved with the arrival of Miss Murdstone (Edward's sister). Clara is removed of the housekeeping in order to left all the power for the Murdstones.

          This weakness of brand arrives to extremes that when Mr and Miss Murdstone take some determination about the little David she don't dare to argue against (and when she do it immediatly try make her sense guilty).

          The glooms flood her heart with the result that when she saw her dear first son so far and saw the state of her familiar life she begins to weaken physically until die in the arms of the loyal Peggotty and bringing with this mishap the death of her just born, son of Mr Murdstone.

          Clara Copperfield or how is called after her second marriage, Clara Murdstone can be pattern of lots of women in the 19th. century, she is a woman first under the tutelage of her parents and after pass to the tutelage of a husband. She is not habituated to the home's tasks (and it shows us that she comes of a rich family with a hodekeeper), and she always try to be pleasing with the opinions of her husband, frightening about what could happen...

          She get married very young and without any experience of the life (we can remember the moment when she meet the aunt of her deceased husband, Betsey Trotwood, the day David was born), and is for that that when she left widow and behind a rigorous period of mourning falls in the presence of the dazzling lies of Edward Murdstone, almost without have more time to choose among other gentlemen who could make her happier that this one.