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*Allen, “King”

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Mentioned in passing with Lord Worcester and Lord Alvanly as among the older generation of dandies who sit in Olympian aloofness in the Bow window at White’s and who life supercilious eyebrows at Sir Montagu Revesby.

*ALVANLY, Lord (sp?)

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Mentioned in passing with Lord Worcester and “King” Allen as among the older generation of dandies who sit in Olympian aloofness in the Bow window at White’s and who life supercilious eyebrows at Sir Montagu Revesby.

*Anne, Queen

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The style of furniture in the Sheringhams’ house in Grosvenor Square? At least Sherry thinks it’s been there since Queen Anne.

*Astley

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Of Astley’s Amphitheater, where Sherry takes Hero to see Make Way for Liberty, or The Flight of the Saracens.

*Belcher?

FRIDAY’S CHILD

As in Belcher handkerchief around the neck?

*Brixham Pet, the

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A Black, perhaps to become a champion boxer, mentioned by Hero in a conversation with Mr. Tarleton, much to his amusement.

*BRUMMELL, George

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Sherry tells Hero it was bgambling that ruined Brummell and Tallerton, for example.

*CANTERBURY, Archbishop of

FRIDAY’S CHILD

He stands second to the King in the leadership of the Church of England. When Gil applies to his valet on Sherry’s behalf, Chilham tells Sherry that it is to the Archbishop, or any Bishop in his stead, that one applies for a special licence.

*Cleopatra

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Mentioned in passing as a real person when Hero is enumerating names out of Shakespeare, much to the astonishment of Ferdy especially.

*COWPER, Lord and Lady

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Mentioned in passing by Hero Wantage to Sherry when she returns from Almack’s, having been escorted by George Wrotham.

*Cribb

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An ex-champion of the boxing ring who now owns a tavern, Cribb’s Parlor, where Sherry goes instead of taking Hero to Almack’s early in their marriage.

*DRUMMOND BURRELL, Mrs.

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The most coldly correct of Almack’s patronesses, she thinks Lady Sefton so good-natured as to bestow her favors, i.e. vouchers to Almack’s to Hero, somewhat indiscriminately. She treats Hero with cold propriety when she does first attend an assembly there.

*ESTERHAZY, Princess

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One of the patronesses of Almack’s who gave Hero a critical stare on her first visit there.

*Fenton

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Of Fenton’s Hotel in London, where Sherry and Hero put up until they choose a house. Its propriety begins to pall on Sherry.

*First Time of Asking

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A horse backed by Sherry that lost.

*Grillon

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Of Grillon’s Hotel, where Sherry lodges Hero on her first night in London and where the Dowager Lady Sheringham puts up with her considerable entourage when she is in town.

*Hervey

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Author of Meditations Among the Tombs, which the Dowager Lady Sheringham has open in Grosvenor Square when Sherry and Hero visit her for the first time after their wedding.

*Jackson

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Of Jackson’s, in New Bond Street, where Sherry takes boxing lessons from Jackson himself.

*JACKSON, John

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In the mirror at Gil Ringwood’s lodgings there’s an ad for a sparring contest to be held under the auspices of Mr. John Jackson at the Fives-Court, Westminster.

*JERSEY, Lady (Sally)

FRIDAY’S CHILD

One of the Patronesses of Almack’s, with a mischievous smile.

Lady Jersey is one of the leaders of the Ton and an intimate friend of the Prince Regent. She has and excellent sense of humor and finds the story of Sherry’s marriage humorous. When Sherry’s mother, the Dowager Lady Sheringham, urges another of the Patronesses, Mrs. Drummond Burrell, not to relax their standards and issue vouchers to Hero, Lady Jersey bristles at her spite and says that if Lady Sefton has not already done so, she will grant vouchers to the newlywed.

*LADE, Lady John (Letty)

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A notable whip for a female. After the phaeton race between Lady Fairford and Hero, Lord Fakenham opines that even in her heyday she could not have beaten Hero.

*LADE, Sir John

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A renowned whip

George challenges Sherry to try to best Sir John’s record of driving a curricle through a gate only just wide enough to admit the vehicle 22 straight; Sherry makes it to the 5^th lap and George to the 7^th.

*Lieven, Countess

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Mentioned by Sherry along with Lady Jersey, Lady Cowper, and Princess Esterhazy as the height of London society.

*Limmer

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Of Limmer’s Hotel in London, where Sherry and his friends go to drink daffy and which is not a suitable place for Hero to put up even temporarily.

*Manton

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Of Manton’s Shooting Gallery, in London. When George casts aspersions on Sherry’s aim after their duel, Sherry challenges him to a shooting contest their.

*Molyneux, Lord

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Eldest-born of Lady Sefton, whom she can upon rare occasions reduce to the condition of speechless endurance as she does Sherry when he goes to Croxteth Hall in search of Hero.

*Richardson

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Of Richardson’s, where Sherry expects Hero to buy herself her favorite number in the lotteries.

*Richardson

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Of Richardson’s, a library patronized by Hero in London.

*Sefton, Earl of

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Husband of Lady Maria Sefton and father of Lord Molyneux, when in the country, he resides with his family at Croxteth Hall, in Lancashire, where Sherry thinks Hero may have run off to.

*SEFTON, Lady Maria

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The first of Almack’s patronesses to meet Hero: they are on their way to visit Assheton Smith at Quorndon House, in

Leicestershire, and come upon Sherry teaching her to ride, and Lady Sefton finds her quite unexceptionable, unquestionably a lady. Sherry also acquires a box at the opera for Hero through her kind offices.

*Shakespeare

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Hero points out that her name, as well as Ferdy’s and Sherry’s, are out of Shakespeare, and mentions that he wrote plays about real people like Cleopatra as well.

*Smith, Assheton

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Of Quorndon House, in Leicester. The Seftons are on their way to visit him when they run into Sherry teaching Hero to ride. He hunts his own hounds, and George tells Hero he often draws his coverts too quickly and sometimes fails to lift his hounds.

*Stultz

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Makes Sherry’s coats.

*Sweeter When Clothed

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A horse with 3 white stockings recommended to Ferdy by Sir Matthew Brockenhurst; it wins him some much-needed funds.

*Tattersall

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Of Tattersall’s, where Sherry and Gil go to purchase horses while Ferdy goes with Hero to choose furniture for the house in Half Moon Street.

*Watier

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Of Watier’s, where Sherry plays macao. Revesby is not a member because he was blackballed; it’s the deepest play in town, but no sharps or ivory-turners.

*WELLINGTON, Duke of

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It is MIP that Almack’s would not relax it’s 11:00 p.m. closing rule even for so great a personage as the Duke

*Wilkinson, Dr.

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New proprietor of the Abbey Baths in Bath who advocates the Russian Method of vapour baths. Sir Montagu Revesby advises the Dowager Lady Sheringham, when he calls on her and Miss Milborne in Bath, to seek the Doctor’s advice for treatment.

*Willis

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Presides over Almack’s. He will not allow Lord Sheringham into the Assembly rooms at five after eleven, when he goes to find Hero.

*Worcester, Lord

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Mentioned in passing with Lord Alvanly and “King” Allen as among the older generation of dandies who sit in Olympian aloofness in the Bow window at White’s and who life supercilious eyebrows at Sir Montagu Revesby.

Fakenham (?), Charlotte

FRIDAY’S CHILD

When Sherry is trying to think of excuses why Hero has no abigail with her when she checks into Grillon’s Hotel, Ferdy Fakenham mentions this “old aunt” who broke her leg one time getting out of a carriage before the steps were let down.

APPLEBY,

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Spouse: Lady Appleby (nee Agusta Yarford) (“Gussie)

It is mentioned in passing that, like his wife, he is “very bad ton” and “can’t be trusted to keep the line at all”.

APPLEBY, Lady (nee Augusta Yarford)

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Familial Nickname: “Gussie”

Spouse: Appleby

Brother: Wilfred Yarford

Gussie was a neighbor and playmate of Lord Sheringham and Hero while growing up in Kent. Hero gets herself into another scrape when she goes to Bartholomew Fair with Gussie, her brother, Wilford, and Sir Matthew Brockenhurst. Sherry characterizes Gussie as “the maddest romp in town” and Gil describes Wilford as “a devilish ugly customer”. Sir Matthew is an acquaintance of Sherry’s who has been to visit their house, but his reputation is such that he is not considered acceptable to socialize with Hero.

BAGSHOT,

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A man of “calm good sense” who, when his wife flies into a temper tantrum after finding out that Hero has married Viscount Sheringham, makes her see that if she objects to this most advantageous marriage, she would appear foolish to the world.

BAGSHOT, Edwin

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Edwin caught Hero, holding her so tightly that she couldn’t get away and kissed her.

BAGSHOT, Miss Cassandra

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Familial Nickname: Sophy

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One of Hero’s cousins with whom she was brought up and whom Sherry believes treated Hero “like a dog”.

BAGSHOT, Miss Eudora

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One of Hero’s cousins with whom she was brought up and who Sherry believes treated Hero “like a dog”.

BAGSHOT, Miss Sophronia

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Familial Nickname: Sophy

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One of Hero’s cousins with whom she was brought up and who Sherry believes treated Hero “like a dog”.

BAGSHOT, Mrs. Jane

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Jane is Hero’s cousin who took Hero in to live with her when she was orphaned at 8 years old.

Jane has treated Hero as a second class member of her family all her life. Jane has recently found out that her son, Edwin, kissed Hero and she believes it to be all Hero’s fault, stigmatizing Hero as a “designing hussy” and a “snake”. She has decreed that Hero must go be a governess at a school in Bath in order to earn her living.

BASSENTHWAITES

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Sherry mentions these neighbors in Kent to Hero as the family that owned the church pew that he and Hero glued in one of their youthful pranks.

BERWICK, Lady Maria

FRIDAY’S CHILD

MIP by Sherry as a member of the ton whose conduct is questionable

Bluebeard

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When Sherry learns that his friends all hurried to Bath to warn Hero of his coming, he says it’s as if he were a regular Bluebeard.

BOOTLE

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‘Long-suffering and phlegmatic’ valet to Lord Sheringham.

He is not only an excellent valet, but he is extremely loyal. At one point he even waits at table after Mr. & Mrs. Groombridge quit on the spot following an argument with Hero. Bootle then installs his cousin, Bradgate, and his wife as butler and cook, who suit Sherry & Hero much better. When Hero leaves home, Bootle instantly takes things in hand to keep the rest of the staff from gossiping.

BRADGATE

FRIDAY’S CHILD

A cousin of Lord Sheringham’s valet, Bootle

Bootle brings in Bradgate, to Lord Sherinham’s household with Bradgate’s wife to be butler and cook after the Groombridges quit.

BRADGATE, Mrs.

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The wife of Bootle’s cousin who is brought in to Lord Sheringham’s household as cook with her husband as butler after the Groombridges quit.

BROCKENHURST, Sir Matthew

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An acquaintance of Lord Sheringham’s who has visited the couple at their new residence.

Brockenhurst accompanies Hero, Gussie Yarford, & Wilford Yarford. Hero assumes that since Sir Matthew has dined at their house, there is no problem with her going. She later meets Sir Matthew as well as Wilford Yarford at a card party at Mrs. Wimborne’s house in Curzon Street while Sherry is out of town. Upon seeing these two there Hero wishes that she had not accepted the invatation.

Capel, Mrs.

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Runs a gaming-house in Pall Mall where Sherry plays rouge-et-noir.

CHALFONT

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Together with his sisters he calls on the Dowager Lady Sheringham and Miss Milford in the Royal Crescent in Bath.

CHALFONT, Misses

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These two sisters and their brother call on the Dowager Lady Sheringham and Miss Milford in the Royal Crescent in Bath. They are also present the next morning in the Grand Pump Room.

CHESTER, Mrs.

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A dashing young widow claiming friendship with Lord Sheringham, she introduces herself to Hero and leads her to a supper party with two very wild blades at the unacceptable Royal Saloon in Picadilly.

CHILHAM

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Gilbert Ringwood’s valet.

CLOVES, Jerry

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He maintains a betting stall at the corner of Tattersall’s.

Cophetua, King

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Said to have married and bestowed unbelievable wealth on a beggar maid. After their first big day of shopping, Hero says she feels just like the girl in the story. Sherry responds that people will begin to think she’s bookish if she doesn’t take care.

CRANBOURNE, Jack

FRIDAY’S CHILD

He held the bank at Mrs. Gillingham’s card party the first night Hero played there. It was to him that Hero owed the large sum of money which was the total of her vowels.

CRAWLEY, General

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A gentleman from whom Mr. Tarleton intends to buy a matched pair of chestnuts

CRAWLEY, Sir Barnabas

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One of Isabella Milford’s suitors to whom she has a real attraction

Ditchling

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Mentioned in passing as the Sheringhams’/Verelsts’ legal advisor (?), who has some say in the disposal of property and the Trust.

FAIRFORD, Lady

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Hero and Lady Fairford have a phaeton race about the ground of Fakenham Manor during their visit over the Christmas holidays.

FAKENHAM, Lady

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Lord Sheringham’s aunt

Lady Fakenahm holds a ball in London which Sherry and Hero attend shortly after their marriage. She also has them as guests at Fakenham Manor over the first Christmas holidays after Sherry and Hero are married.

FAKENHAM, Lord

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Lord Fakenham plays host to Sherry and Hero at a ball in London and over the Christmas holidays at his home, Fakenham Manor.

FAKENHAM, the Honorable Ferdinand

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Familial Nickname: Ferdy

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A cousin of Lord Sheringham

Ferdy is an intimate friend of Sherry, Gil Ringwood, and George Wrotham. He is considered foolish and stupid by his friends, but he’s loyal, kind, and caring. He interjects a lot of confusion when Viscount Sheringham decides to go to Bath. He tells everyone that a “Greek fellow” is after them, but no one except his brother can figure out what he’s talking about.

FAKENHAM, The Honorable Marmaduke

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Familial Nickname: Duke

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An older cousin of Lord Sheringham

Duke occasionally socializes with Sherry, Gil, George, and Ferdy, but is not an intimate member of their circle. He’s recognized as being much more intelligent and knowledgeable than his brother, Ferdy. He’s the only one who understands Ferdy’s reference to that “Greek” fellow.

FIREPROOF LADY

FRIDAY’S CHILD

One of the attractions at Bartholomew Fair

Flyaway NANCY

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A member of the muslin company.

When Sherry believes that her recognizes his former mistress at the Covent Garden Masquerade, he leaves Hero alone in their box while he goes to flirt with her. Hero is thus unprotected from the advances of a masked stranger.

Ford, Mr.

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Owner of the house Gil live in in Stratton Street.

FROME, Sir Carlton

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A friend of Lady Saltash who accompanies her and Hero to the Theatre Royal in Bath

GILLINGHAM, Mrs. (Charlotte)

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An acquaintance of Lord Sheringham

Mrs. Gillingham introduces herself to Hero at the Pantheon Assembly Rooms when Hero is there with her cousin, Mrs. Hoby while Lord Sheringham is out of town. She invites Hero to a card party at her house in Curzon Street the next evening and Mrs. Hoby advises Hero that she should certainly go. When Sherry finally learns of this, he is sure that it is Sir Montagu Revesby who is behind the affair.

GORING

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Butler and general factotum for Lord Sheringham at his hunting box in Leicestershire

GORING, Mrs.

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Cook and housekeeper as well as wife of the butler at Lord Sheringham’s hunting box in Leicestershire

Grimsby

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Gamekeeper(?) at Sheringham Place when Sherry was a boy. Sherry thought hime devilish bad-tempered and blames him for many floggings from his father.

GROOMBRIDGE

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Lord and Lady Sheringham’s first butler in Half Moon Street

GROOMBRIDGE, Mrs.

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Wife of the butler and the first cook at Lord and Lady Sheringham’s house in Half Moon Street

GUMLEY, Algernon

FRIDAY’S CHILD

A friend of Lord Wrotham

George invites Mr. Gumley, who is extremely shy of the female sex, to go watch a balloon ascension with Hero, Isabella, and himself after Sherry refuses and George dismisses the thought of inviting Ferdy Fakenham when he remembers that Ferdy has been one of Miss Milborne’s admirers.

GUYNETTE,

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Master of Ceremonies at the Lower Assembly Rooms in Bath

HOBY, Mrs. (Theresa)

FRIDAY’S CHILD

A distant cousin of Hero

The wife of an Irishman who is heir to a respectable property, she was a very young and very dashing matron who called on Hero very shortly after the announcement of her new address appeared in the Morning Post.

HORLEY

FRIDAY’S CHILD

“Old” Horley was the dean at Eton when Ferdy and Jack Westgate were there. “Old” Horley caught Ferdy when he broke a window in the chapel.

HOWARD AND GIBBS, Messers

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Money lenders from whom Hero gets a loan to pay her gaming debts.

JASON

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Sherry’s adoring and devoted Tiger. A very small individual, probably 18 or 19, with a sharp countenance, he started life in a Foundling Hospital, passed by way of the streets of London to training as a jockey at a racing stable, and then ended up back on the streets as a pick-pocket, where Sherry discovers him as an inexpert thief but an inspired handler of horses and engages him, with strict caveats about forking his friends. Hero discovers that is also extremely expert among the cooking pots.

John

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Sherry’s coachman in London.

KILBY

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Son of Lady Kilby. Mentioned in passing as one of Hero’s admirers whom Sherry finds visiting her in Half Moon Street and sends about his business.

KILBY, Lady

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Kilby’s mother. Hero excuses herself from Lady Kilby’s soirée on the night that the Groombridges quit their service in order to stay home and cook for Sherry’s bachelor friends.

LIVING SKELETON

FRIDAY’S CHILD

One of the attractions at Bartholomew Fair

Long

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Of Long’s Hotel, where Ferdy was to meet some cronies but cancels so as to give Gil some company while recovering from his cold.

MARIA

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Hero’s maid

MILBORNE, Mr.

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Spouse: Mrs. Milborne

Daughter: Isabella

Husband of Mrs. Milborne, father of Isabella, and owner of Milborne House in Kent and a residence in Green Street, London. He is rather vague, quite unblessed by the worldly wisdom which characterizes his spouse, and is ruled by his wife and daughter.

MILBORNE, Miss (Isabella)

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Other Nicknames: The Incomparable, Foxy

Familial Nickname: Bella

Father: Mr. Milborne

Mother: Mrs. Milborne

Childhood friend of Viscount Sheringham and Hero Wantage

The acknowledged Beauty of the season, Isabella has numerous suitors at her feet. The leading contenders for her hand are the Duke of Severn, Viscount Sheringham (until he is rejected), Lord Wrotham, and Sir Montagu Revesby.Isabella has been at her home in the country recovering from the measles. When she returns to London to find Hero married to Sherry and a great favorite with his particular friends, she feels a slight pang, but then she is thrust back into the courtship game with the Duke, Lord Wrotham, and Sir Montagu. She finds this a gratifying but difficult time as she tries to make her decision.

MILBORNE, Mrs.

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Spouse: Mr. Milborne

Daughter: Mrs. Milborne

Wife of Mr. Milborne and mother of Isabella, she is a lady distinguished by her admirable sense. Her chief ambition is that her daughter marry a title.

MUNDESLEY, Miss

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Governess to Cassandra, Eudora, and Sophronia Bagshot and Hero Wantage

Miss Mundesley has a sister who is a mistress of a girls’ school in Bath where Hero’s cousin Jane Bagshot intends to send Hero to start earning her living.

Nemesis

FRIDAY’S CHILD

A mysterious Greek thing that creeps up behind a fellow and puts him in the basket when he’s not expecting it. Ferdy remembers learning about it at Eton, though he has difficulty remembering its name, and thinks it was responsible for old Horley finding out that ger broke a window in the school chapel. According to Mr. Tarleton, Nemesis is the goddess of retribution and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Night.

PAAP, Simon

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Nickname: the Celebrated Dutch Dwarf

One of the attractions at Bartholomew Fair

PAULETT, Horace

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Sister: Dowager Lady Sheringham

Nephew: Lord Sheringham

A trustee of Lord Sheringham’s estate

Following the death of his brother-in-law Viscount Sheringham’s maternal uncle moved into Sheringham Place to support his sister. He is joined with the Viscount’s paternal uncle, the Honorable Prosper Verelst, as trustees of the Viscount’s estate until Sherry is 25 or gets married. Sherry is convinced that his uncle Paulett is skimming his estate.

Pug

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Old, fat, lethargic, and odious, he belongs to Lady Saltash in Bath, and Hero is obliged to take him for walks.

REVESBY, Fortescue

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Sir Montagu Revesby’s uncle who lives near Hitchin

Sir Montagu was staying with his uncle, upon whom he has expectations, the winter before Hero came to town. It was at that time that Ruth Wimborne says Sir Montagu seduced her with promises of marriage.

REVESBY, Sir Montagu

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Nickname: Monty (to his men friends)

A friend of Lord Sheringham

Sir Montagu is a handsome man with a lot of charm who has taken up Sherry as a friend and leads him to gaming at many of the vulgar hells about town. He is also one of Isabella Milborne’s suitors. He is taking a great deal of care to keep it quiet that he is in financial difficulty and that it is for this reason that he refuses to recognize Ruth Wimborne, a girl that he seduced in Hertfordshire, and her child. He is very embarrassed that Hero takes the girl into her protection and he thinks that Hero turns Sherry against him. For this Sir Montagu plots to pay Hero back.

RINGWOOD, Gilbert

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Familial Nickname: Gil

A particular friend of Viscount Sheringham, and later of his wife Hero

Looked upon by Viscount Sheringham, Ferdy Fakenham, and George Wrotham as the most knowing one of their circle of friends, Mr. Ringwood is especially particular in all matter of Ton and etiquette.His special friendship with Hero begins on her wedding day when he takes her shopping while Sherry goes to procure a special license. From then on Hero forms a special bond with Gil and it is to him that she goes when she leaves Sherry.

ROMSEY

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Butler at Sheringham Place

ROYSTON, Lady Sally

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Wife of a sporting baronet and a driver herself, she challenges Hero to a race and Hero disastrouly accepts.

SALTASH, Lady

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Gilbert Ringwood’s maternal grandmother

At her grandson’s request she allows Hero to stay with her in Bath after Hero has run away from Sherry and sought Gil’s help rather than let Sherry take her to his mother at Sheringham Place.

SEVERN, Dowager Duchess of

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Son: The Duke of Severn

The Dowager makes a stately visit to London and call on the Milbornes. Her friends described her demeanor as extremely gracious towards the Milbornes at the next assembly, and she invites Isabella and her mother for Christmas at Severn Towers.

SEVERN, Duke of

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Suitor of Isabella Milborne

The Duke is the most eligible of Isabella’s suitors for he is extremely wealthy as well as being of high rank. Unfortunately he is also slightly pompous, punctiliously civil, passionately earnest in his courtship, and lives a most well-ordered life with a high level of his own self-consequence which makes him less than romantic especially when compared to the ardent passion of the handsome and volatile George Wrotham.

Sheringham, Lady (née Valeria Paulett)

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Sherry’s widowed mother and the sister of Horace Paulett, she is a valetudianarian of quite amazing stamina who speaks in a faint, complaining tone which admirably conceals a constitution of iron and a strong determination to havve her own way. She wants Sherry to marry their neighbor, Isabella Milborne, and combine their estates, and she has a sublime disregard for the presence of servants.

SHERINGHAM, Viscount (Anthony Verelst)

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Familial Nickname: Sherry

Mother: Dowager Lady Sheringham (nee Valeria Paulett)

A handsome and charming young man who for the past year has been a suitor of Isabella Milborne, the acknowledged Beauty of the Ton and a childhood playmate. When she rejects his offer of marriage, Sherry heads back to London in a fit of pique. His father’s estate is tied up in a trust and does not become his until he is twenty-five or until he gets married. On the road he comes across another former playmate, Hero Wantage, who is running away from her home because she has been told that she must go to Bath and become a governess. Sherry decides to marry Hero to solve his problem of the trust and keep her from becoming a governess.

STOKE, Philip

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Lord Sheringham’s man of business

Mr. Stoke is quite pleased to hear that Lord Sheringham is married and can now take on the namagement of his estate. He has been concerned about Mr. Paulette’s expenditures. He helps Sherry and hero find a house to rent and set up their establishment.

STOWE, Miss

FRIDAY’S CHILD

A young lady MIP by Gil as ‘rabbity-faced’

TALLERTON

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A young man who had associated with Sir Montagu Revesby

It is generally believed that Tallerton died in a shooting accident, but marmaduke Fakenham informs Sherry’s friends that he had gambled away his fortune and shot himself.

TARLETON, Jasper

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A friend of Lady Saltash

Mr. Tarleton becomes enamoured of Hero while she is staying in Bath using her maiden name. He begins to court her and after Hero relates to him that renaway marriages (referring to her own) are the only ones for her, Mr. Tarleton makes arrangements to abduct her and runaway to marry her.

TOOTING

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A man that Hero met at Bartholomew Fair

Mr. Tooting, a young Cit dressed in his Sunday best, rescued Hero, who was running away from the odious Wilfred Yarford whom Mr. Tooting knocked down, and was preparing to escort hero home in a hackney when Sherry came upon them. Sherry expressed himself most kindly and with much obligation to Mr. Tooting for helping his wife.

VARLEY

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Butler at Sheringham House in London

VARLEY, Mrs.

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Wife of the butler at Sheringham House

VERELST, The Honorable Prosper

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Viscount Sheringham’s paternal uncle

A corpulent and easy-going man who was joined with Sherry’s maternal uncle, Horace Paulett, as Trustees of Sherry’s estate until Sherry marries or turns twenty-five. Being a very lazy man he has pretty much left the management of the estate to Paulett.

Wantage, Geoffrey

FRIDAY’S CHILD

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Hero’s father, mentioned by Mrs. Hoby as their connection.

WANTAGE, Miss Hero

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Nickname: Kitten

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Orphaned chousin of Jane Bagshot, childhood friend of Lord Sheringham and Isabella Milborne

Hero has been living with her cousin since she was eight years old and has been treated as if she were second-class. She has no money of her own and her cousin Jane has informed her that she must prepare to earn her own living as a governess in a girls’ seminary in Bath. Upon hearing this Hero decides to run away. It is at this point that she meets up with Lord Sheringham. The Viscount and Hero agree that their best course is to marry: in this way Sherry will have control of his fortune and Hero will have a home and a place in society.

Ware, General

FRIDAY’S CHILD

A bad driver according to Sherry, who had the ill fortune to overturn the General’s phaeton on the road to Kensington thus losing a bet that he could graze the wheels of the first 7 vehicles he met past the Hyde Park turnpike without oversetting any of them.

Warkworth

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Of Warkworth’s, a discreet gaming establishment where Sherry has been initiated into disastrously deep play by Sir Montagu Revesby.

WESTGATE, Jack

FRIDAY’S CHILD

A friend of Ferdy Fakenham

Jack hosts a party at White’s the night before Sherry is to leave for Bath.

WIMBORNE, Ruth

FRIDAY’S CHILD

A very young woman from Hitchin who has a newborn baby

As Sherry, Hero, and a party of friends leave Almack’s one evening, Ruth confronts Sir Montagu Revesby begging that he care for her and her child. Sir Montagu claims not to know her while meanwhile Hero comes to her rescue. Hero takes Ruth and the baby home to Half Moon Street and then persuades Sherry to send her to his hunting box in Melton to work under Mrs. Goring. Sherry agrees but is incensed that Sir Montagu has not taken responsibility for the child.

Wooler

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Of Wooler’s, a discreet gaming establishment where Sherry has been initiated into disastrously deep play by Sir Montagu Revesby.

WROTHAM (nee), Augusta

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Brother: George

Augusta advises George to remain aloof from Isabella in hopes of piquing her interest and looking more kindly on his suit.

WROTHAM, Lord George

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Sister: Augusta

A particular friend of Viscount Sheringham, Gil Ringwood, Ferdy Fakenham, and later, Hero

An impoverished, but strikingly handsome young man with a very volatile temper, George is a crack shot and all too often he attempts to force others, friend and foe alike, into meeting him in a duel. Such activity seems to offer him great releif. He is head over ears in love with Isabella Milborne and his temper is usually sweet or firey depending on his fortunes with the reserved young lady. He becomes very fond of Hero and is quite willing to act as her champion at the least provocation.

Yarford, Augusta

FRIDAY’S CHILD

YARFORD, Wilfred

FRIDAY’S CHILD

Sister: Lady Augusta Appleby

At Bartholomew Fair Hero tries to get the odious and abominable Wilfred to take her home after Gussie Appleby goes of with Sir Matthew Brockenhurst. When Hero tries to run away from him, she is rescued by Mr. Tooting, who knocks Wilfred down.