Person

Book/Story

Nicknames

Family

Description

ADAM

BARREN CORN

One of the Society People known by Hugh Salinger and whom Laura dislikes; ìa strange sexless creatureî known only by his first name and ìwho spoke in a girlish voice, and was always perfectly dressedî [Ch.25]

HUBERT ANDREWS

BARREN CORN

HUBERT ANDREWS

An actor and the former husband of the actress Maisie Trent, who now lives with the writer George Carruthers, a friend of Hugh Salinger and Jack Crawley [Ch.9]

MR. BEALBY

BARREN CORN

Fellow lodger of Laura Burtonís at Miss Jacksonís pension in Nice [Ch.2]; ìSkipped for healthís sake and brought the plaster down from the ceilingî [Ch.2; 11]

MR. BEESON

BARREN CORN

Fellow lodger of Laura Burtonís at Miss Jacksonís pension in Nice [Ch.3]

MR BOWER

BARREN CORN

Butler bestowed by Lady Powis upon Hugh and Laura Salingerís flat in London; married to Mrs. Bower; Laura suspects them of stealing food and talking about her behind her back [Ch.25]

MRS BOWER

BARREN CORN

Cook bestowed by Lady Powis upon Hugh and Laura Salingerís flat in London; married to Mr. Bower; Laura suspects them of stealing food and talking about her behind her back [Ch.25]

BIANCA

BARREN CORN

The niece of the caretaker, Emilia, who acts as a parlourmaid for Hugh and Laura at the villa they rent outside Siena [Ch.7]

GEORGE BURTON

BARREN CORN

Brother of Laura Burton, and dark like Laura [Ch.12; 144]

LAURA BURTON

BARREN CORN

Shopgirl in Regent Street hat shop until she is sent to work in Nice for the season; lives in Brixton in a boarding-house; thirty years old, brown eyes [Ch.4] and black hair [Ch.5]: a ìdark beauty,î ìrichly beautiful, magnificent in stature, calm of demeanorî and ìseems the embodiment of the Italian Renaissanceî and like ìa Madonna for Luiniî in Hugh Salingerís eyes [Ch.1; 2]-- ìcuriously unlike the average shop girl,î in Hugh Salingerís words [Ch.1; 12]; immediately recognizes Hugh Salinger to be of another class, and says so, but still falls in love with him

MAY BURTON

BARREN CORN

One of Lauraís sisters, who envies Laura her good luck [Ch.1]

MR. BURTON

BARREN CORN

Married to Mrs. Burton, father of Laura Burton; a ìlarge, solid manî with ìshrewd grey eyesî; the only one of his family who ìdid not seem to be awedî upon meeting Hugh Salinger for the first time [Ch.12; 145]

GEORGE CARRUTHERS

BARREN CORN

A writer and friend of Hugh Salinger and Jack Crawley, now living with Maisie Trent, an actress [Ch.9]

GABRIELLE CRAWLEY

BARREN CORN

Wife of Jack Crawley [Ch.9]

JACK CRAWLEY

BARREN CORN

Friend of Hugh Salingerís from England, whom he meets in Siena [Ch.9]

THE CROSBYS

BARREN CORN

Fellow lodgers of Laura Burtonís at Miss Jacksonís pension in Nice [Ch.3]

DINGO

BARREN CORN

One of the Society People known to Hugh Salinger and disliked by Laura; married to Meg; frequently out on the town, yet rarely seen out in each otherís company [Ch.25]

MISS DUTTON

BARREN CORN

Fellow lodger of Laura Burtonís at Miss Jacksonís pension in Nice; accused by Miss Jackson of using up all the notepaper [Ch.3]

MADAME DUHAMEL

BARREN CORN

Owner of a hat shop, Suzanneís, in Nice where Laura works for a season [Ch.1, Ch.4]

EMILIA

BARREN CORN

The caretaker of the villa Hugh and Laura rent outside Siena [Ch.7]

GENEVIEVE

BARREN CORN

Works with Laura Burton at Mme. Duhamelís hat shop in Nice [Ch.4]

LADY BARBARA HANNERSLEY (ìBabsî)

BARREN CORN

One of the Society People of Hughís acquaintance; she wears ìvery startling frocksî and ìsmokes innumerable cigarettesî; ostensibly lives with her parents, but quite independent [Ch.26]

COLONEL HEPPLEWHITE

BARREN CORN

Husband of Mrs. Hepplewhite, father of Stella Hepplewhite; ìbluff and very kindlyî [Ch.15; 193]

MRS. HEPPLEWHITE

BARREN CORN

Wife of Colonel Hepplewhite; mother of Stella Hepplewhite; has ìa quiet motherliness that at once set Laura at her easeî [Ch.15; 193]

STELLA HEPPLEWHITE

BARREN CORN

The young woman whose family estates border the Salingerís; marked by Hughís mother as a bride for him and by Lady Powis as a bride for her son, Roland; for either son, she would ìbring a fair dowry with her, breed, and slender lovelinessî [Ch.2; 24] ìfair and slenderî with ìgrave blue eyes, and very fair hair, and a cool, quiet voiceî [Ch.13; 163]; childhood playmate of Hugh and still adores him, but hides it

HILLIARD

BARREN CORN

A playwright know to Hugh Salinger and to the Crawleys whose play the Crawleys saw in London and disliked [Ch.9]

FLORRIE HOPE

BARREN CORN

Another shop girl with whom Laura Burton works in Nice [Ch.3]

GEORGE HOPE

BARREN CORN

Friend of Hugh Salingerís with whom Hugh and Laura spend Christmas at their house in Leicestershire [Ch.28]

MRS. HOPE

BARREN CORN

Wife of George Hope, a friend of Hugh Salinger; ì a pleasant woman, of uncertain age, with a weather-beaten complexion, and a loud, cheerful voiceî [Ch.28; 240]

MISS JACKSON

BARREN CORN

Owns the pension where Laura Burton stays in Nice [Ch.2]

GLADYS JENKINS (nee Burton)

BARREN CORN

One of Lauraís sisters; married to Henry and has with two children (Harry and Baby); does not envy Laura her good luck [Ch.1; Ch.26]

HARRY JENKINS

BARREN CORN

Elder son of Henry Jenkins and Gladys Jenkins

HENRY JENKINS

BARREN CORN

Husband of Gladys Jenkins (nee Burton), one of Laura Burtonís sisters

MAJOR LAWRENCE

BARREN CORN

Friend of the Hopes, with whom Hugh Salinger and Laura spend Christmas [Ch.28]

MASTERMAN

BARREN CORN

Playwright known to Hugh Salinger whose plays offer ìsmart repartees that sound hellish clever but mean precisely nothingî [Ch.27]

MEG

BARREN CORN

One of the Society People known to Hugh Salinger and disliked by Laura; married to Dingo; frequently out on the town ìattended by one of her numerous male appendages,î yet rarely seen out in each otherís company [Ch.25; 220]

MRS MILLER

BARREN CORN

Fellow lodger of Laura Burtonís at Miss Jacksonís pension in Nice [Ch.2]

GERRY OLDMAY

BARREN CORN

Friend of Hugh Salinger and Maurice Quillinan from the war [Ch.4]

PENNY

BARREN CORN

Butler of the Salinger family [Ch.13]

LADY POWIS (Lilian)

BARREN CORN

Sister of Lord Salinger; runs the family home for him; ìthe most practical of women, and was mostly to be seen in tweeds, and stout shoes, and an ancient felt hatî [Ch.2; 19]

JAMES POWIS (ìJimî)

BARREN CORN

Son of Sir John Powis and Lady Powis; raised at Lord Salingerís expense; at Eton; ìa mild studious young man, lacking curiosity, and retiring to the point of shynessî [Ch.15; 189]

SIR JOHN POWIS

BARREN CORN

Late husband of Lady Powis, who left her without independent funds after his death [Ch.2]

HYLDA POWIS

BARREN CORN

Daughter of Sir John Powis and Lady Powis; raised at Lord Salingerís expense, and now at Girton; would have garnered more of her uncleís support ìhad she been in the least pretty or attractiveî; desires independence: ìshe could talk of nothing but the New Woman, and her Right to Support Herselfî [Ch.2; 19]; ìa plain young woman with lank, straggling hair, and a nose slightly pink at the tipî and shakes hands in ìa vigorous, masculine fashionî [Ch.13; 163]

LORNA PRAYLE

BARREN CORN

An actress in Hilliardís play seen by the Crawleys, in which her character drinks a cup of cold poison in the final act [Ch.9]

MAURICE QUILLINAN

BARREN CORN

Friend of Hugh Salinger; a writer; five years older than Hugh in years, but appears older still; ìhis massive frame seemed to belong rather to middle age; his hair had gone slightly grey at the temples, and round his deep-set eyes were many tiny lines, repeated on his browî; ìa large, jutting nose, and a whimsically irregular mouth; he dressed in baggy, aged garments. He looked rather sleepy, certainly kind, and sometimes shrewdî [Ch.4; 46]

MRS EMMELINE SALINGER

BARREN CORN

Mother of Hugh Salinger and Joyce Salinger; widowed, resides at Hans Place in London, but occasionally stays with her husbandís brother, Lord Salinger, at Alleyne; ìa very pretty woman, blessed with easy tears, and an ethereal, tired voice. Her expenses were large, her debts numerous,î but Lord Salinger paid them without question and even encourages her excesses[Ch.2; 18-19]

HUGH SALINGER

BARREN CORN

A gentleman Laura meets in Villefranche in the South of France while he is painting the landscape and then her; about thirty years old ìalthough his face was curiously linedî; ìhis lips were too thin, but well curved, his teeth very even and whiteî[Ch.1; 4]; ìevery inch a Salingerî: quite like his uncle and unlike his cousin Roland; went to Eton, but unlike his cousin Roland who went for sports, Hugh ìcarried off instead the Morrison Prize for Greek Verse, and associated with all the wierdest people in the Houseî [Ch.2; 20]; lavishly supported at Oxford by his uncle, who approved of his expensive tastes, and then in Europe, both before and after the War in which Hugh fought and returned with a Military Cross and a slim volume of war poems [Ch.2]

LORD SALINGER (Charles Humphrey Fordyce)

BARREN CORN

Tenth Baron Salinger; uncle of Hugh Salinger; lives in the family home in Alleyne [Ch.2; Ch.4]

JOYCE SALINGER

BARREN CORN

Younger sister of Hugh Salinger [Ch.1]; wears an Eton crop and has scarlet lips [Ch.13;160], and ìplucked eyebrowsî [Ch.15; 193]

SALINGER, the Honourable ROLAND GEOFFREY CHARLES FORDYCE

BARREN CORN

Son of Lord Salinger; one of the ìWorldís Saints,î as opposed to being one of the ìWorldís Black Sheep,î as his father called himself ; doesnít seem a Salinger ìeither in appearance or heartî; ìslow-wittedî man for whom vice was ìBad Formî; went to Eton, and fought in the war; good sportsman; liked by others for his pleasant demeanor, but ìhis rigid standard of Good Form made him some enemiesî; his sudden death from a riding accident brings Hugh Salinger back home to England with his wife [Ch.2; 20; Ch.4; Ch.11]

SOLANGE

BARREN CORN

Works with Laura Burton at Mme. Duhamelís hat shop in Nice [Ch.4]

TREMAINE

BARREN CORN

An actor in Hilliardís play seen by the Crawleys, in which he plays the husband [Ch.9]

MAISIE TRENT

BARREN CORN

An acquaintance of Hugh Salinger and Jack Crawley who lives with their friend George Carruthers [Ch.9]; an actress, formerly married to Hubert Andrews

THE VANES

BARREN CORN

A couple known to Hugh Salinger and the Crawleys who are ìgetting up such a cheery partyî for a trip to the Lido [Ch.9]

WILLIAM WHITEMAN

BARREN CORN

An actor in Hilliardís play seen by the Crawleys, in which he plays ìthe lover, conscientiously mediocreî [Ch.9]

YVONNE

BARREN CORN

Works with Laura Burton at the hat shop in Nice and lodges at Miss Jacksonís pension [ch.4]