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Who's Who in Fiction ? : Noted Names in Novels,
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WHO'S WHO IN
FICTION ?
A DICTIONARY OF NOTED NAMES
IN NOVELS, TALES, ROMANCES,
POETRY, AND DRAMA
BY
H. SWAN
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LONDON :
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LIM.
NEW YORK : E. P. DUTTON & CO.
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PREFACE
THIS little book aims at supplying infor
mation frequently sought for in larger
works of reference without success. Its
scope is limited to standard works within
the sphere of English Fiction, both
prose and verse, whether novel, poem, or
play. Exceptions have been made in
the cases of a few books, chiefly of Oriental
origin, such as The Arabian Nights',
which have been rendered familiar by
English translations, and of the great
medieval romances of chivalry, with which
we have become acquainted through
Middle-English versions.
H. S.
WHO'S WHO IN
FICTION
Aaron : a Moor with whom Tamora, Queen of the Goths,
was in love [Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus].
Abberville, Lord : a young nobleman whose career of dis
sipation is arrested by means of a faithful bailiff. He
is the hero of the play [Cumberland, Fashionable Lover].
Abdael : is intended for General Monk, afterwards Duke of
Albeiaarle, who was a strong partizau of Charles II
[Dryden, Abialom and Achitophd].
Abdalazis : a Moor who became Governor of Spain after the
fall of Roderick [Southey, Roderick].
Abdaldar : a magician chosen as the destroyer of Thalab*,
but who died just as he was about to stab his victim
[Southey, Thalnba].
Abdalla : a slave belonging to Sir Brian de Boia Gilbert
[Scott, /vanhoe].
Abdallah : a brother of Giaffer, and murdered by htm
[Byron, Bride of Abydot].
—— el Hadgi : an envoy employed by Saladin [Scot*,
Talisman}.
Abdiel : a seraph, who, though urged by Satan to revolt,
remained ' unmoved, unshaken, unseduced ' [ililtoa,
Parnditf Lost',
A Ward : ice Eloisa.
Abiliiao : a beggar and a bandit who ultimately marries a
ui-cc of the Doge of Venice [\T.G. Lewis, Bravo ot Yenirt]
Ab*n-Ezra, Raphael : a friend of the Prefect of Alexandria
[Charles Kingslev, Hijpatia',
Ab3?sa : the personiflcntion or Abbeys and Convents and
the paramour of Kirkrapine [Spenser, Faery Queme].
Abhorsoa : the executioner [Shakespeare, Afetuure for
Measure}.
Abigail : a servant [Beaumont and Fletcher, Scornful Lidg\.
W.W.F. 1
ABM 2 ADA
Abney : Albert Lee's friend [Seott,
Afcou Ben Adhem : th« hero of Uie poem of that titl« [Leigh
Hunt, Abov Be* Aaheml
- Hassam : the hero of UM «torr called UM SJ«<p«r
Awakened [Arabian X if hit}.
Absalom : intended by the author (or Charlea II's son, the
Duke of Monmouth [Dryden, Abialotn and Achiiophel}.
Absolon : the parish clerk and a luitor for the hand of
Alison [Chaucer. Canterbury Tola : The UHler's Tale}:
Absolute. Captain : a suitor for the hand of Lydia Languish
under the name of Ensign Beverley.
i" Sir Anthony: a warm-hearted old gentleman of
irascible temper. The father of Captain Absolute
[Sheridan, Xiralt].
Abndah : a merchant of Bagdad who meets with many
wonderful adventures [Ridley, Talet of the Genii].
— - the Second in Command of an Arabian Army
investing Damascus [John Hughes, Siege of Damatnu].
Acasto, Lord : an unfortunate noble who survives all his
children [Otway, The Orphan].
Achilles : the chief character in the opera of that name
[Gay, AchOlet}.
litophel : is intended for the Earl of Shaftesbury, who
aided the Duke of Monmouth (Absalom) in his designs
on the Crown [Dryden, Abtalom and Aehuopnel].
Achtbtr, Lord Anophel : an idiotic and scoundrelly young
man [Peacock, M elinrourt].
Ackland, Sir Thomas : one of the royalist party [Scott,
Woodttoek}.
Acrasia : an enchantress living in ' The Bower of Bliss,'
and personifying Intemperance [Spenser, Faery
Qtuene].
Aerates : the personification of Incontinence and the
father of Gluttony and Drunkenness [Phineas Fletcher,
Purple Jtland].
Acres, Bob : a coward and swearer, the rival of Ensign
Beverley as a suitor for the hand of Lydia Languish
[Sheridan, Rivalt}.
Adam : a collece tutor ' white-tied, clerical, silent ' [Clough,
BoOtie of Tobtrna-Vvalith}.
- the aged servant of Oliver. A part supposed to
have been acted by the author [Shakespeare, At You
Like It}.
. — Bede : tee Bede, Adam.
- Bell : tee Bell, Adam.
Adams, Parson Abraham : a leained.iweet-natured country
clergyman, noted for his nnworldlineM [Fielding,
Jottvh Andrevi).
ADE 3 AGA
Adelaide : killed, in error, by her own father [Jepuaou,
Count of Xarbonne],
Adeline : ' Faintly smiling Adeline ' [Alfred Tennyson,
Addine}.
Adhem, Abon Ben : a man who loved his fellow-men [Leigh
Hunt, Abou lien Adhem].
Adicia : wife of the soliian, who after sundry misdeeds i»
changed into a tigress [Spenser, faery Queen].
Adieus : the personification of Unrighteousness [Phineas
Fletcher, Purple Island].
Adie of Aikenshaw : a neighbour of the Glendinnnin?
family [Scott, The, Monastery}.
Admetus : King of Thessaly and husband of Aiceatis
[Lowell, Shepherd of King Admetus].
Adolpba : daughter of the Governor of Prague, married;
to Ideiistein [Knowles, Maid of Mariendorpt].
AJonais : the name under which the poet Keats was im
mortalized by his friend [Shelley, Adonais].
Adonbec el Hakim : the name which Saladin assumed
when he visited Sir Kenneth's Squire as a doctor
[Scott, Talisman].
Adosinda : the daughter of the Gothic Governor of Auria
[Southey, Roderick].
Adramelech : a fallen angel, vanquished by Uriel and
Raphael [Milton, Paradise Lost].
Adriana : the wife of Antipholus of Ephesus [Shakespeare,
Comedy of Errors].
Adriano de Armado, Don : a pompous, poor, and boastful
Spaniard [dhakespeare, Love's Laliour's Lost].
Adriel : represents the royalist Earl of Mulgrave [Drvden,
Absalom and Achitophtl].
Aegeon : a merchant of Syracuse [Shakespeare, Comedy of
Errors].
Aella : the hero of the tragedy ' tChatterton, AeUa].
Aemelia : a noble lady in love with Amias, whom she is
enabled to marry through the good offices of Prince
Arthur [Spenser, faery Queene].
Aemilia : an abbess, the wife of Aegeon, and mother
of the twin Antipholus [Shakespeare, Comedy of
Errors].
Action : a character supposed to be intended for Shake
spe*re [dpeuser, Colin Clout's Come Home Again].
Agag : intended for Sir E. Godfrey, a magistrate murdered
on Primrose Hill [Dryden, Absalom and Achit.iphel].
Agamemnon : the hero of an unsuccessful play [Jamea
Thomson, Agamemnon],
Agatia : ttie saintly heruins of a gtory of rural life in
Germany [Gvovge E&ut, Agatha].
AGA 4 ALA
Agathocles : the leading character In the play, and intended
for Oliver Cromwell [Perrinchief, Agathodes ; or, The
Sicilian Tyrant].
Aged, The : the name by which Wemmick's father w^a
known [Dickens, Great Expectation*].
Agelastes, Michael : the philosopher and cynic [Scott,
Count Robert of Paris].
Ager, Captain : a soldier and noble gentleman who makes
a fine distinction between physical and moral courage
[Middleton and Rowley, A Fair Quarrel].
Agfl : the third Calendar in the story of The Three Calen
dars [Arabian Night*].
Aglaura : the heroine in a tragl-comedy [Sir John Suckling,
Aglaura].
Agneia : Wifely Chastity personified [Phineas Fletcher,
Purple Island].
Agnes of Sorrento : the heroine of the tale [Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Agnet of Sorrento].
Agravaine, Sir : a Knight of the Round Table, the son
of Lot, King of Orkney, and a nephew of King Arthur
[Malory, History of Prince Arthur].
Agrios : the personification of Sullenness [Phineaa Fletcher,
Purple Island].
Aguecheek, Sir Andrew : a silly country squire, the butt
of the witty, and a fop [Shakespeare, Twelfth Sight].
Ahaback : an enchanter who was crushed to death by
a stone being let down on him, that had formed the
head of his bed [Ridley, Talc* of the Genii].
Ahmed, Prince : the owner of a tent, given him by a fairy,
that could shelter a whole army, yet fold up so closely
that he could carry it in his pocket [Arabian flights].
Abolibamah : the granddaughter of Cain' [Byron, Heaven
and £tirth].
Aikwood, Eingan : a forester in the senrice of Sir Arthur
Wardour [Scott, Antiquary].
Aimwell, Thomas, Viscount : a man who having fallen
on evil days, tries to retrieve his position by marrying
an heiress [Farquhar, Heaux' Stratagem}.
Aireastle : a discursive taluer after the fashion of Mrs.
Nickleby, said to have been drawn from life [Foote,
Cozier*].
Airlie, The Earl of : a royalist follower of Charles I [Scott,
Legend of Jfontrose].
Airy, Sir George : a gentleman of wealth, In love with
Miranda [Mrs. Centlivre, Busybody].
'it the owner of a wonderful lamp that, upon being
rubbed, gave him all he longed for, but which he lost.
and with it all his wealth [Arabian Night*].
ALA 5 ALD
£!adine : a lusty knight [Spenser, Faery Queene}.
fiasco : the alias of Dr. Doboobie, an astrologer [Scott,
A'fnUworth].
Alasnam : the possessor of eight priceless statues, but
who, craving for a ninth, found one still more precious,
in the form of a woman, and her he married [Arabian
Sight*}.
Alastor : ' a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous
genius ' [Shelley, Alattor ; or, The Spirit of Solitude].
/.Iberitk : the squire of Richard, son of Henry II of Eng
land [Scott, Betrothed}.
of Mortemar : an eriled nobleman also known as
Theodorick, the hermit of Engaddi [Scott, Talisman].
Albert : the judge of Wyoming, and father of Gertrude
[Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming].
- *= Lord Wilfrid, who assumes the character of the
' Blind Beggar ' [Knowles, Beggar of Bethnal Green].
o! Qeierstein : president of the Secret Tribunal
[Scott, Anne of Geierttein].
Albovine : King of Lombardy, married to Rosamonde
[Davenant, Albovine, King of Lombard}/].
Albumazar : the chief character in the play [Tomkis,
Albumazar the Astronomer].
Alciphron ; a freethinker who debates [Bp. Berkeley,
Alciphron ; or, the Minute Philotopher].
the hero of the story [Thomas Moore, Epicurean].
Alcolomb : the daughter of Abou Aibou, who marries the
caliph Haroun-al-Raschid [Arabian Nights}.
Alcyon : once a jolly shepherd but afterwards ' the woful-
lest man alive ' [Spenser, Dapltnaidi}.
Aldabella : a beautiful Florentine admired by the ill-fated
Fazio, and condemned to end her days in a nunnery
[Milman, Fazio].
Alden, John : the lover of Priscilla, whom he marries in
the end, though he first woos her for his friend [Long
fellow, Courtship of Miles Standish].
Aldiborontephoscophornio : a courtier in a burlesque
[Carey, Chrononhotonthologot].
Aldingar, Sir : the steward of Queen Eleanor, who accused
her of infidelity to Henry II, but whose innocence was
established through a child-angel [Percy, Reliyucs],
Aldoi : elopes with Lorna, King En-agon's wife, and is slaio
in single combat by the injured husband [Ossian,
Battle of Lora],
Aldovrand : chaplain to Sir Raymond Berenger [Scott,
The Betrothed].
Aldrick : the Jesuit Confessor to the Countess of Derby
[Scott, Peveril of the Peak].
ALE 6 AU
Alexander : [Lyly, AltranJrr and Campaspe].
Alexa^ : an unworthy member of Cleopatra's household—
a eunucb [Dryden, AU /or Love].
Alfonso, Don : the jealous husband of Donna Julia [Byron,
Don Juan}.
Ali Baba : a poor wood-carrier who learnt the magic
phrases ' open sesame ' and ' shut sesame1 ' — the hero
of tlie story of ' The forty Thieves' [Arabian Nights].
Mahbub : a man in the employ of the Indian secret
sen-ice [Kipling, Kim].
Alice : the central figure in two fairy stories [Lewis Carroll
(C. L. Dodgson), Alice in Wonderland ; Alice Through
the Look ing- Glass],
tn. sistcrofValentine [J.Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas].
the heroine in a book which is the sequel to Ernest
MaUravers iLytton, Alice; or, The" Mysteries].
the heroine of a poem in three parts — a merry
child in the first, and dying in the last [Alfred Tenny
son, May Queen].
the heroine of a tale of village love [Alfred Tenny
son, Miller's Daughter].
du Clos : the heroine of a ballad [S. T. Coleridge,
Alice du Clos].
Fell : see Fell, Alice.
• Gray, Old : see Gray, Old Alice.
Mistress : heroine of the story told by Magog to
Cog [Dickens, Master Humphrey's Clock],
The Lady : see Avenal, White Lady of.
Alicia : the treacherous wife of Arden [lillo, Arden of
Feversham].
the mistress of Lord Hastings, whose affections
she alienated by her jealousy. She afterwards went
mad [Rowe, Jane Shore].
Alinda : daughter of Alphonso of Segovia [J. Fletcher,
The Pilgrim].
i the name taken by Archas when he disguises
himself as a woman [J. Fletcher, Loyal Subject].
—— the original of ' Celia ' in Shakespeare's play of
As You Like II [Lodge, Rosalynde].
Aliris : the Sultan of Buoharia, who, in the guise of an escort
won the love of Lalla, Roolth [Thomas Moore, Lalla
Rookh].
Alisaunder, Sir : the son of Prmce Boudwine and nephew
cf Mark, King of Cornwall, who slew him treacherously
[Malory, History of Prince Arthur].
Alison : wife of John, the carpenter, and in love with the
poor scholar Nicholas [Chaucer, Canterbury Tales :
The MOier's Tale].
ALI 7 ALM
Alison : an old servant of the Earl of Leicester's at Cumnoi
Place [Scott, KenHworth}.
Alithea : a brilliant woman of the world [Wycherley
Country Wife].
Alken : an old shepherd, learned in the ways of witched
[Ben Jonson, Sad Shepherd].
All-All, Sir Positive : a boastful character, ' pretending w.
all manner of arta and sciences ' [Evelyn, Dinn,
Routledge'8 1906 edn., p. 424]. Said both by Pepvs
[Diary, Routledge's 1906 edn., p. 646], and by Evelya.
Joe. eit., to be intended for Sir Robert Howard, Dry
dan's brother-in-law and auditor of the Exchequer
[Thomas Shadwell, Sullen Lover].
Allan : a poverty-stricken Scottish nobleman [Scotl,
Br'ult of Lammermoor].
Mrs. : housekeeper to Colonel Mannering [Soott
Guy Mannering}.
Allegro : the faithful servant of Philip Chabot [Chapman
and Shirley, Tragedy of Philip Chabot].
Allen, Arabella : sister of Benjamin Allen, and afterwarOc
married to Mr. Winkle.
Benjamin: a medical student and the friend <*
Bob Sawyer, for whom he destines his sister ArabeiU
[Dickea«i, Pickwick Papers].
Barbara : the subject of a ballad [Allan Ramsey,
Barbara AUen'i Cruelty].
Major : one of Monmouth'i officers [Scott, Old
Mortality],
Mr. and Mrs. : the friends with whom Catharine
Morland stays at Bath [Jaue Austen, Northangar
Abbey].
Allen-a-Dale : one of Robin Hood's archers in Sherwood
Forest [Old Ballad}.
AHnut, ffoll : landlord of the Swan, Lambythe Ferry,
where he dwelt with his wife Grace and his son Oliver
[Sterling, John FeUon].
AUworth, Lady : the step-mother of Tom.
Tom: the lover, and, in the end, the husband of
Margaret Overreach [Massinger, Ne* Way to Pay Old
Debit}.
AUworthy, Mr. : a man of great honesty, charity, inde
pendence, and modesty [Fielding, Tom Jonet}.
Alma : the Queen of ' Body Castle ' : meant to impersonal*
the human soul [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Almanzor : one of the characters in the tragedy [Dryden.
Cotvfuttt of Granada].
the hero of an old romance [attrib. Sir P. Sidney.
Almanzor and Almantaida].
ALN 8 ALT
Almeria : daughter of Manuel, King of Granada, and the
wife of Alphonao, Prince of Valentia [Congreve,
Mourning Briitf}.
Alnaschar : the dreamy brother of the barbar, who, having
invested all his money in glass, broke it all [Arabian
Hi&tt\.
Aloadin : a sorcerer who dwelt in an ' Earthly Paradise '
in Arabia, but was slain by Thaluba [Southey, Thalaba].
Alonso : King of Naples, the father of Ferdinand, and
brother of Sebastian [Shakespeare, Tempat}.
Alonzo : the hero of a ballad [M. G. Lewis, Alonzo fh«
Brave and the Fair Imoyine}.
a Portuguese, the great enemy of Duarte [Beau
mont and Fletcher, Custom o/ the Country].
— Don : friend of Don Carlos and husband of Leonora
[Young, The Revenge].
— — — a valiant knight, the friend of Holla and husband
of Cora. He fights Pizarro and kills him [Sheridan,
Pizarro].
Alp : the hero of the play ; a Venetian renegade in com
mand of the Turish army [Byron, Siege of Corinth].
Alphonse : Mrs. Wititterly's diminutive page [Dickens,
Kicholas Nicldebg}.
Alphonso : King of Naples, deposed by his brother and
nearly poisoned by Sorano. He regains his crown in
the end [J. Fletcher, Wife for a Month].
- • an irritable old nobleman [J. Fletcher, The PO-
grim].
—— Don : in love with Don Scipio's daughter Victoria,
who, however, marries another [O'Keefe, Cattle of
Andalusia].
-^— sou of Pedro, of Cantabria ; he becomes King ol
Ppain [Southey, Roderick].
Alpiew : I<ady Keveller's waiting-woman [Mrs. Centlivre,
£at»ct- Table}.
Alscrip, Miss : an illiterate and vulgar parvenue who apes
the manners of the great.
Mr. : the father of the heiress, who finds it an
intolerable nuisance to live up to his new position
[Burgoyne, The Heiresi].
Altair.ont : a Genoese noble who marries Calista amd then
discovers she has been betrayed by Lothatr.c whom
he kills in a duel [Rowe, Fair Penitent].
Col. : an escaped convict, and Lady Clavering's
first husband [Thackeray, Pendenni*}.
- Duke of : the vulgar-minded and precise noble
man to whom Adelaide Douglas was married [Susaa
E. Ferriei, Marriage].
ALT 9 AMD
Alton, Miss: companion to Miss Alscrip, 'the heiress*,
and beloved by Lord Gayville [Burgoyne, The Htircst}.
— — - Locke : tee Locke, Alton.
Alvan : a character founded on that of Ferdinand Lasalle.
A brilliant, impetuous Democrat, who is uniformly
successful, till he falls in love with Clotilde voa
Rtidiger, who has not his strength and fails him.
Maddened, he challenges her other suitor to a due)
and is killed. [George Meredith, The Tragic Comedians}.
Alyface. Annot : servant to Dame Christian distance
[Udall, Ralph Roister Doiiter].
Amadis de Gaul : the son of King Perion and Princess
Elizena, and the hero of many Spanish and Portuguese
romances.
Amalahta : the son of Erillyab, sometime Queen oi
the Hoamen ; he was wily and cruel [Southey,
JftNfetl
Amanda : the heroine [Cibber, Love's Last Shift ; continued
by Vanbrugh in The Relapie, and adapted by Sheridan
in Trip to Scarborough].
the girl whom Peregrine Pickle ruins [Smollett,
Peregrine Pickle}.
— — — really intended for a Miss Young, afterwards
married to Admiral Campbell [James Thomson, The
Seasons : Spring],
Amarant : a cruel giant who was slain by Guy, Earl of
Warwick [Guy and Amarant].
Amaranta : wife of Bartolus and beloved by Leandro
[J. Fletcher, The Spanish Curate].
Amaranth, Lady : a character at one time acted by Mrs.
Pope [O'Keefe, Wild Octt}.
Amarillis : a shepherdess who loved Perigot and got her
self magically transformed into the likeness of his
real love. Her trick was, however, discovered in
time [J. Fletcher, faith/id Shepherd].
Amaryllis : intended for the Countess Dowager of Derby
[Spenser, Colin Clout's Come Home Again}.
Amavia : the personification of Intemperate Grief [Spenser,
Faery Queene].
Ambree, Mary : the herione of a ballad often referred to
by the older dramatists. Sometimes called the
' English Joan of Arc '.
Ambrose : the servant of the Miss Arthureta [Scott, Red-
gaunllft}.
Brother : a monk in attendance on the Prior at
Jorvaulx Abbey [Scott, Ivanhoe}.
— — Father : is really Edward Glendinning, the brother
of Sir Halbert Glendinning [Scott, The Abbot].
AM8 It AMO
Ambrosio : Abbot of th« Capucins at Madrid, called the
Man of Holiness because of his sanctity. He falto from
hig high ideals, tempted by Matilda [M. G. Lewis, Tht
Monk}.
Amelia : a character supposed to have been drawn from
the author's own wife. She ia the spotless wife of Will
Booth [Fielding, Amelia].
- a country beauty, who is killed by lightning whilst
walking with her lover Celadon [Jaines Thomson,
The Season! : Summer}.
- Sedley : tee Sedley, Amelia.
Amelot : the page in attendance on Sir Darian de Lacy
[Scott, Betrothed}.
Amgiad : the son of Camaralzaman and Badoura [Arabian
Amias : the lovrr of Aemilia, whose suit Is favoured by
Prince Arthur [Spenser, Faery Quecne}.
Amidas : the lover of Lucy, who jilted her and married
Philtra for her wealth [Spenser, Faery Queene}.
Ainiel : intended for Sir Edward Seymour, Speaker of the
House of Commons [Dryden, Absalom and Achito-
phd}.
Aaiin, Prince : son of Haroun-al-Raschid [Arabian Nighlt}.
Amine : half-sister of Zobeide and wife of Amin [Arabian
Nights}.
- the fair wife of Lidi Nouman, who was discovered
to be a ghoul who fed on the newly-buried dead
[Arabian Night,}.
Aaiintor : betrothed to Aspatia, but compelled by the king
to many Evadue [Beaumont and Fletcher, HauTi
Tragedy}.
Amlet, Richard : a gamester, the son of a tradesman ; he
retrieves his fortunes by marrying the daughter of a
wealthy scrivener, Corinna Gripe [Vanbrugh, Con
federacy].
Ammiani, Carlo : a noble Italian youth who Join* whole
heartedly in the Revolution for freedom. He marries
Vittoria and is finally killed [George Meredith, Vti-
toria}.
Amoret : a modest, constant shepherdess betrothed to
Perigot, whom she marries after much tribulation
[J. Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdett}.
— - twin sister to Belphoebe, discovered in a wood by
Venus and Diana. The personification of Womanly
Charm [Spenser, Faery Queene}.
Amory, Blanche : one of the author's less happy efforts
to draw a woman. She ia selfish and insipid [Thack
eray, Pcndenn.it}.
AM9 11
Amoury. Sir Giles : the Grand Master of the Knights
Templars, whose head Saladin cut off whilst he was
raising a cap of wine to his lips [Scott, Talitman],
Amphialas : the son of Cecropia, in love with Philoclea,
Imt at last wedded to Helen of Corinth [Sidney,
Arcadia].
Amphion : the son of Jupiter and Antiope, who played the
lyre with such skill that stones and trees moved about
at hia ordering [Alfred Tennyson, Amphion].
Amri : intended for Heneage Finch, the Lord Chancellor
[Dryden and Tate, Absalom and Achitophd, pt ii.].
Amundeville, The Lady Adeline : one of the female charac
ters in the poem [Byron, Don Juan].
Amynta : the subject of a pastoral poem [Elliott, Am'/rta].
Aniyntas : the subject of a dramatic pastoral [Randolph,
Ariiyntas : or, The Impossible Dowry\.
Amys and Amylion two of Charlemagne's knights sup-
po*ed to have lived in the reign of Pepin, the Damon
and Pythias of mediaeval fiction.
Aaah : a granddaughter of Cain, loved by Japhet but
herself loving the seraph Azaziel [Byron, Heaven and
Earth].
Aaastasius : a Greek who, to escape the effects of his own
crimes, become* a renegade [Hope, Memoirt of Ana*-
tatius].
Ancient Mariner : the man who shot an albatross and was
therefore doomed to perpetual wanderings from land
to land [3. T. Coleridge, Ancient Mariner].
Andersen, Eppie : the maid at the inn at St. Ronan's
Well [Soott, St. Ronan't Well].
— — John : the hero of a Scottish song [Percy, ReHqucs ;
John Anderion my Jo].
Andre : one of Louis XI's executioners [Scott, Quentin
JJurvard}.
Andrea del Sarto : the faultless painter [R. Browning, Men
and Women}.
Aadreos : the personification of Fortitude [Phineas
Fletcher, Purple Island].
Andrew : Godfrey Bertram's gardener [Scott, Guy Man-
nerin*}].
Andrews, Joseph : a footman who marries a maidservant —
the hero of the story — which was written to ridicule
Richardson's Pamela [Fielding, Joieph Andrew*}.
Andromache : the widow of Hector, courted by Pyrrhns,
who, in his last moments, placed the crown of Epirus
on her head [Ambrose Paillips, Dittrttted Mother].
Andromeda : the subject of a poem based on the c< vaaical
story [Charles Kingsley, Andromeda].
AND 12 ANN
Androphflus : Philanthropy personified [Phineai Fletcher,
Purple Island].
Andrugio : the Duke of Genoa — noble but fiery [Marston,
Antonio and MeUida].
Aneal : the daughter of Maani, by whom Djabal was be
loved [K. Browning, Return of the Druses].
Anemolius : the Poet Laureate of Utopia [Sir Thomas
More, Utopia}.
Angela Pisani : see Pisani, Angela.
Angelica : betrothed to Valere, the gamester, whom the
cures of his folly [Mrs. Centlivre, The Gamester}.
ward of Sir Sampson Legend and in love with
Valentine, for whom she jilts her f uardian [Congreve,
Love 1or Love}.
the heroine [Farquhar, Constant Couple].
the heroine [Farquhar, -Sir Harry Wildair].
— — a princess, and the ' Lady of the Golden Tower "
with whom Parismenos is in love [Foorde, History oi
Parismus, pt. ii.].
Angelina : the daughter of Charino ; she elopes with
a bookworm [Gibber, Love Makes a Man].
—•—— sister of Don Rhodorigo, and in love with Gonsal
Disguising herself as a man, she assumes the
of Amides [Dry den, Rival Lav. 'it*}.
the daughter of Lord Lewis [J. Fletcher, The Elder
Brother}.
• the heroine, beloved of Edwin [Goldsmith,
Hermit : a ballad].
Angelo : a friend of Julio's [Beaumont and Fletcher,
Captain].
— — — a Goldsmith [Shakespeare, Comedy oi Errors}.
-^— — Lord-Deputy of Vienna, and betrothed to Mariana
[Shakespeare, Measure for Measure].
Angiolina : daughter of Loredano and wedded to the Doge
of Venice, Marino Faliero [Byron, Marino Faliero].
Anglides : wife of Prince Boudwine, and mother of Ali-
saunder [Malory, History of Prince Arthur].
Anguisant : King of Erin and ally of Leodogran, King oi
Cameliard [Alfred Tennyson, Coming of Arthur].
Ann, The Princess : the lady of Beaujeu [Scott, Quentin
Duru'ard].
Anna, Princess : daughter of the Emperor Alexius and the
Empress Irene [.Scott, Count Robert of Paris].
• one of the leading women's characters in the play
[Home, Douglas].
Annabel : intended for the Duchess of Marlborough
[Dry den, Absalom and Aehitophel].
• LM : ste Lee, Annabel.
ANN 13 ANT
Anne : daughter of King Uther and Ygerne, and sister
of King Arthur. She married Lot, who became
King of Norway. Called by Tennyson, Bellicent
[Arthurian Cycle].
'• Hereford : tee Hereford, Anne.
— — — of Geierstein : Baroness of Arnheim and daughter
of Count Albert of Geierstein, ' The Black Monk ' ;
she falls in love with and marries Sir Arthur de Vere
[Scott, Anne of Geinrslein}.
Sistar : the sister of Bluebeard's seventh wife,
Fatima. She watches from the tower for the brothers
that are to rescue Fatima from death [Hluebfard,
a nursery tale, originally derived from Scandinavia].
Annesley : a man who goes through many thrilling ad
ventures amongst the Indians [Mackenzie, Man of the
World}.
—— Charles : the name of the hero [Reade, Wandering
Heir}.
Annette : daughter of Matthias the Miller, and the bride
of Christian [Ware, Polish Jew].
Annie, Fair : the heroine of an old ballad.
Laurie : see Laurie, Annie.
ol Lochroyan, Fair : [Lord Gregory : a ballad].
Winnie : tee Winnie, Annie.
Annir : the King of Inisthona [Ossian, War of Initthona].
Annophel : she was the daughter of Cassilane, the General
of Candy [Beaumont and Fletcher, Laws of Candy].
Anfelm : Prior of St. Dominic and the Confessor of King
Henry IV of Scotland [Scott, Fair Maid of Perth}.
Anterior : a Trojan prince, related to Priam [Shakespeare,
Troilui and Cressida}.
Anthony : an English archer living with Farmer Dickson
[Scott, Castle Danyerout],
the postillion at the inn at 8t Konan'a Well [Scott,
St. Ronan's Well].
Antigonns : entrusted by King Leontes to carry his baby
to some desert shore that it might perish [Shakespeare,
Winter', Tale}.
King : an aged king, still fubject to the passions
of youth [Beaumont and Fletcher, Humorous Lieu
tenant}.
Antinous : cne son of General Cassilane and brother of
Annophel [Beaumont and Fletcher, Laws of Candy}.
Antioehus : Emperor of Greece and would-be assassin of
Pericles [Shakespeare, Perirlet, Prince of Tyre],
Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse : the
twin sons of Aegeon and Emilia [Shakespeare, Comedy
QJ Errors}.
ANT 14 APP
Anton, Sir : be to whom Merlin gave King Arthur, when an
infant, to bring up [Alfred Tennyson, Comity of
Arthur].
Antonio : a kinsman of Petruocio and Governor of Bologna
[J. Fletcher, The Chanctt],
Don : the father of Carlos and Clodis, the two lead
ing characters [Gibber, Love Makei a Man].
and Mellida : the leading characters [Marston,
Hittory of Antonio and MMida].
a minor character [Shakespeare, Muck Ado Alout
Nothing}.
the merchant from whom Bassanio borrows 3,000
ducats, and whose life is nearly forfeited in conse
quence [Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice}.
the sea-captain who saved the life of Sebastian,
[Shakespeare, Twelfth Night].
-" the usurper of the dukedom of- Milan and uncle
of Miranda [Shakespeare, Tempett].
the father of Proteus, and a suitor for the hand
of Julia [Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona].
Don : a poor nobleman in love with Louisa, the
daughter of Don Jerome of Seville [Sheridan, The
Duenna}.
in tony : the great Roman Triumvir, who wrecked his
whole career for the sake of his love for Cleopatra,
Queen of Egypt [Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra}.
Mark : the same as above [Dryden, AU For Love}.
Aodh : the last of a primitive priesthood, known as the
Coldees. The Danes invaded lona where they dwelt,
and then Aodh gathered his few remaining followers
together and migrated to Ireland [Campbell, Reullura].
Apemantus : a cynical misanthrope [Shakespeare, Timon
of Athens}.
Apicata : the wife of Sejanus, who deserted her for Livia
[Ben Jonson, FaU of Sejanut}.
Apollodoros : the chief character in this ' spasmodic
tragedy' [Aytoun, Ftrmilian].
Apollyon : an evil spirit with whom Christian has a terrible
encounter [Bunyan, Pilyrim'i Proyrett}.
Appins : intended to represent John Dennis, the literary
critic [Pope, Euay on Critittim].
— — and Virginia : the two leading figures in an old
mor lity play where many of the other characters
are personifications of virtues, etc. [R. B.( Ap^iui and
Virginia].
this play, hke that above, i* founded on an
episode in early Roman history [Web»t«, Tht Roman
Virgin; o>, Tht Vnjttt J*4g»}.
ARA 15 AR3
Arabella : the ward of Justice Day and wooed by hta sen.
She however marries Captain Manly [Knight, Hor,<*t
Thieves}.
Aragnol : the son of Araohne [Spenser, Muiopotmot ; or,
The Butterfly' » Fatt].
Aiftm, Eugene : a schoolmaster of Knareeborough, who
committed a murder and afterwards committed
suicide [Lytton, Sugtne Aram]. This true history has
been chosen also by Thomas Hood for the subject of
a poem and by W. O. Wills for a drama.
Aramnita : the friend of Clarissa and the wife of Moneytrap
[Vanbrugh, Confederacy}.
Aranza, The Duke of : husband of the haughty Juliana.
whom he forces to do menial labour until her spirit
is tamed, and then reveals to her what his real position
in life is [Tobin, Honeymoon].
Arbaces : King of Iberia, a vain voluptuary [Beaumont
and Fletcher, King and No King].
a satrap of Media and Syria, founder of the Empire
of Media [Byron, Sardanapalut].
a priest of Isis [Lytton, Loft Doyt of Pompeii].
Arbasto : the leading character in the play [Greene, Hit-
ton/ of Arbatto, Sing of Denmarke].
Arcanes : a soldier and the friend of Caesilane [Beaumont
and Fletcher, Lawt of Candy].
Archas : the hero of the play [J. Fletcher, Loyal Subjert].
Archer, Francis : a gentleman who has come down in the
world, and acts as confidential servant to AimweU
[Farquhar, Beaux' Stratagem].
Archimago or Archimage : an enchanter typifying the
Evil Principle in opposition to the Red Cross Knight,
who represents Holinesc1 [Spenser, Faery Queenr\.
Arcite : a Theban knight, taken captive by Duke Theseua
[Chaucer, Canterbury Tales : Knighfi Tale].
friend of Palamon [Fletcher, Tvo Noble Kinsmen].
Arden : a noble man, wedded to a faithless wife, who
plots his death with her paramour [Ldllo, Arden of
Fevrriham].
Enoch : a shipwrecked sailor, who returns after
many years to find his wife has married his dearest
friend, and leaves a«ain without revealing himsetf
[Alfred Tennyson, Enooh Arden].
Aresby, Captain : an affected captain in the Militia, ' a
most petrifying wretch ' [Fanny Burney, Cecilia].
Arethnsa : the daughter of King Messina [J. Fletcher,
PMlatter ; or, Love LU» Bidding].
Argalus : the unfortunate lovw of PartnenU {Sidney,
Artadia.\
ARC IS ARN
Argante : a giantess who was ' the very monster and
miracle of lust ' [Spenser, Faery Queene],
Argenis : the heroine of a political romance written in
Latin, but often translated [Barclay, Argenis ; or,
Loves of Poliarchus and Argenis}.
Argentine : the daughter of King Adelbright, wooed by
Prince Curan, the Dane [Warner, Albion's England}.
Argentin : an officer in the army of the Duke of Burgundy
[Scott, Anne of Geierstein}.
Argon and Ruro : the sons of Amur, King of Inisthona
[Ossian, War of Inisthona}.
Aribert : King of Lombardy and father of Rhodalind
[Davenant, Gondibert].
Ariel : one of the fallen angels [Milton, Paradise I-osi].
the most important of the sylphs [Pope, Rape of
the Lock}.
a spirit of the air whom Prospero forces into his
service [Shakespeare, Tempest].
Arioch : one of the fallen angels conquered by Abdiel
[Milton, Paradise Lost].
Ariodante : the hero of a play performed by children
before Queen Elizabeth {History of Ariodante and
Ginevrn],
Armado, Don Adriano de : an affected military bully
[Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost].
Armgart : the subject of the poem [George Eliot, Armgart}.
Armiae, Ferdinand : Henrietta Temple's lover [Beauons-
field, Hi-nriHta Temple}.
Armstrong, Archie : James I of England's Court Jester
[Scott, Fortunes of Nigd].
Grace : the betrothed of Hobbie Elliot [Scott,
Black Dwarf}.
John : an aged warrior known tut ' The Laird's
Jock ' [Scott, Laird's Jock].
Johnny : a freebooter of the days of James V of
Scotland [Scottish ballad].
Robert : comes to Farmer Fleming to learn farm
ing and wins confidence by his steadiness. Formerly
addicted to drinking. He finally marries Hhoda
Fleming [George Meredith. Rhoda Planing}.
Armusia : the lover of Quisara [j. Fletcher, Island Princess}.
Arnheim, Baron Herman von : Anne's father, and known
as ' The Black Monk ' [Scott, Anne of Geierslein}.
Arnold : the misshapen son of Bertha [Byron, Deformed
Transformed}.
disguises himself as a beggar, and goes by the
name of ' Ginks ' [J. Fletcher, Beggar's Bush}.
——— the torchbearer at Rotherwood [Scott, Ivanhoe],
ARM 17 ARV
Arnoldo : betrothed to Zenocia [Beaumont and Fletcher,
Custom of Me Country].
Arod : is intended for Sir William Waller [Dryden and
Tate, Absalom and Achiiophel, pt. ii.].
Aroundight : the sword of Lancelot of the Lake.
Arpasia : betrothed to Moneses, but forced into marriage
with Bajazet, Sultan of Turkey [Rowe, Tamerlane].
Arrowpoint, Catharine : a sensible girl, educated and ac
complished [George Eliot, Danid Derondd].
Artaxaminous : King of Utopia and married to Griskinissa,
whom he wishes to divorce in favour of Distaffina
[Rhodes, Bombastes Furioso}.
Artegal : known as the ' Salvage Knight ', the allegorical
representative of Justice [Spenser, Faery Queme].
Arteiais : one of the ladiea of the Court [Dryden, Marriagt
Artevelde, Clara Van : the sister of Philip and beloved
by Walter d'Arlon.
— — Philip Van : the heroes of this historical romance
are the father and son who figure so prominently in
the history of Flanders [Sir Henry Taylor, Philip
Van Arlevelde].
Artful Dodger : tee Dawkins, John.
Arthegal : see Artegal.
Arthur, King of Great Britain and founder of the Round
Table, occurs so frequently in English literature that
it is not possible to name every instance here. Some
of the more important are : Lord Berners, History of
the most noble and valiant knight, Arthur of Lytd
Breylogne ; Thomas Hughes, The Misfortunes of
Arthur ; Hathaway, Arthur, King of England ; Alfred
Tennyson, Idylls of the King ; Lytton, Kiny Arthur,
an old romance of Morte d" Arthur ; and an old ballad,
King Arthur's Death.
Arthuret, Miss Angelica and Miss Serephina : two sisters
who nurse Alan Fairford through an illness [Scott,
Rcdgauntlet].
Arundel : the favourite steed of Sir Bevis of Southampton,
a gift from his wife Josian [Drayton, Polyolbion].
- Percy : Lord Ashdale, who has to divide hii
property with his half-brother, Norman [Lytton,
Sea-Captain].
Arvalan : the son of Kehama, a reprobate, who attempt!
the honour of Kailyal, the daughter of Ladurlad
[Southey, Curse of Kehama].
Arrida, Prince : a friend of Gustavus Vasa, and, like him,
in love with Christina, daughter of Christian II of
Scandinavia [Brooke, Gustavus Vasa].
W.W.F. C
ARV 18 AST
Arviragus : eon of Cyinbeline, kidnapped in infancy by
Belarius [Shakespeare, Cymbeline].
— — husband of Dorigen, a true gentleman wedded to
a pure and noble wife [Chaucer, Canterbury Talet : The
Franklin'* Tale.
Ascanio : son of Henrique and hero of the play [J. Fletcher,
Spanith Curate}.
Aseapart : a giant who tucked Sir Bevig, hii wife Josian
and his steed Arundel under his arm, and carried them
off [Drayton, Polyolbion, pt. ii.].
Asebie : the personincation of Irreligion [Phineas Fletcher,
Purple Island].
Aselges : the personification of Lasciviousness [Phineaa
Fletcher, Purple Itland}.
Ashburton. Mary : the girl with whom Paul Flemming
falls in love [Longfellow, Hyperion].
ishfleld. Dame: a woman dreadfully 'afraid of what her
neighbour, Mrs. Grundy, will think. Hence the phrase.
— — Farmer : a tender-hearted, hot-headed man, the
father of Susan Ashfield.
— — Sutan : daughter of Farmer and Dame Ashfield,
who marries the son of Sir Abel Handy [J. M. Morton,
Speed the Plough}.
Ashford, Isaac : one of Nature's gentlemen, a peasant
' contented to be poor ' [Crabbe, Parish Register].
Ash ton. Lady Eleanor and Col. Sholto : the mother and
brother of Lucy.
— — — Lucy : daughter of Sir William, betrothed to Edgar
of Ravenswood, but forced into a marriage with the
Laird of Bucklaw.
Sir William : Lord Keeper of Scotland and father
of Lucy [Scott, Bride of Lammcrmoor].
Asmadai : a rebellious angel, overthrown by Uriel and
Raphael [Milton, Paradite Lost].
Asotns : the personincation of Prodigality [Phineas
Fletcher, Purple Itland].
Aspasia : an unhappy maid, betrothed to Amintor, who
forsakes her for Evadne [Beaumont and Fletcher,
MaitTi Tragedy].
the most cultured woman of her time, and the
friend of Pericles [Landor, Pericles and Aitpasia].
As per : intended by the poet as a portrait of himself [Ben
Jonson, Every 'Man Out of Hit Humour].
Aspramonte, Brenhilda ol : becomes the wife of Count
Robert [Scott, Count Robert of Paris].
A»«ad : son of Camaralzaman and Haiatalnfous and half-
brother of Amgiad [Arabian Nights].
Astarte : the heroine, beloved by Manfred [Byron, Manfred^
AST 19 A US
Astery : a nymph turned into a butterfly by Venus [Spenser,
Muiopotmos ; or, The Sutterfly's fate].
Aston, Sir Jacob : an old Cavalier [Scott, Woodstock].
Astragon : physician and philosopher, whose daughter
Bertha was betrothed to Gondibert[Davenant,G0nd#>ert].
Astrophel : intended for Sir Philip Sidney and meaning
' star-lover '. The ' star ' he loved was Penelope
Devereux [Spenser, Shepherd's Calendar].
Aswad : the son of Shedad, King of Ad [Southey, Thalaba\.
t>&: the friend of Duessa and mother of ' all dissension '
[Spenser, Faery Queene].
Athanasia : the heroine of the story [Lockbart, Valerius).
Athelstane : ' the Unready ', thane of Coningsburgh [Scott,
Jranhoe].
Atimus : ' A careless, idle swain ', the personification ol
Baseness of Mind [Pliineas Fletcher, Purple Itland].
Atin : representing Strife, the Squire of Pyrochles [Spenser,
Faery Queene].
Atkinson, Sergeant : a sterling and devoted friend to Amelia
and Booth [Fielding, Amelia].
A toss a : supposed to have been intended for the Duchess
of Buckingham [Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle ii.J.
Atticua : intended for Joseph Addison [Pope, Epistle to
Dr. Arbuthnot].
Aubrey, Augusta : a motherless girl, insulted during her
father's absence by her guardian, whose nephew,
Francis Tyrrel, she ultimately marries.
— — — Mr. : a widower, and the father of Augnsta Aubrey
[Cumberland, Fashionable Lover].
- Mr. : the chief character, who afterwards becomes
Lord Drelincourt [Warren, Ten Thousand a Year].
Audrey: an awkward country lass, who jilts William for
Touchstone [Shakespeare, As You Like It}.
Augusta : the mother of Qustavus Vasa [Brooke, Gustavut
Vasa}.
Anld Robin Gray : see Gray, Auld Robin.
Auilay : an enormous horae [Southey, Curie of Kehama].
Aurelia : a dissipated, proud woman [Marston, The Mal
content].
pretty, impertinent, and a flirt [Dryden, An
Evttiing's Love; or, The Mock Astrologer].
Darnel : see Darnel, Aurelia.
Aurelius : elder brother of Uther and uncle of King Arthur
[Arthurian Cycle].
Aurora Leigh : see Leigh, Aurora.
Raby : see Raby, Aurora.
Austin : the name by which the lord of Clarinial was know*
[Jephson, Count o! Narbonne}.
AUT 20 AZO
Autolycus : the pedlar and ' snapper up of unconsidered
trifles' [Shakespeare, Winter's Tale].
Automathes : the hero, a youth left in his Infancy on a
solitary island, where he remained for nineteen yean
[Kirkby, History of AtUomathet}.
Avenel, Dick : a warm-hearted, noisy Yankee [Lytton, My
ffovel].
White Lady of : the guardian spirit of the Arenel
family [Scott, Monastery}.
Averanche, Lionel : a politician, thinker and man of
pleasure combined [G. 8. Smythe, Angela Pit-
ani].
Avery, Captain : the hero of the story [Defoe, King of
Pirates}.
Avengle : the son of Erebus and Nox [Spenaer, Faery
Queene}.
Ayesha : the daughter of Sir Edward Wortley and the
bride of Lord Osmond [J. Morier, Ayesha, the Maid of
Kars}.
Aylmer, Colonel : saves Hilary Lorraine's life at Waterloo
and afterwards marries Alice Lorraine [Blackmore,
Alice Lorraine}.
Rose : the subject of a lyrical poem [Landor, Rote
Aylmer}.
Mrs. : a friend and neighbour of Sir Henry Lee
[Scott, Woodstock}.
Aymer, Prior : a jovial Benedictine monk, Prior of
Jorvauli Abbey [Scott, Ivanhoe].
Ayresleigh, Mr. : a prisoner for debt, met by Mr. Pickwick
in the Coffee-room in Coleman Street [Dickens, Pick
wick Papers}.
Azaria : intended for the Duke of Monmouth [Pordage,
Azaria and Suthai].
Azazel : a ginn made of ' smokeless flre ' created before
man, but driven forth from the earth by angels [Milton,
Paradise Lost].
Azaziel : a seraph who fell in love with Anah, a grand
daughter of Cain [Byron, Heaven and Earth].
Azazil : the standard-bearer of the Infernal Host [Milton,
Paradise Lost}.
Azim : first a convert to, afterwards an opponent of, the
Veiled Prophet [Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh].
Azla : the widow of Arvalan, son of Kehama [Soathey,
Curse of Kehama}.
Aso : the Marquis d'Este, who married Parisina, although
she had been betrothed to his own son, Hugo [Byron,
Parisina].
BAB 21 BAG
Bab, Lady : a lady's-maid that apes the airs of her unstress
and is addressed as ' Lady Bab ' in the kitchen [Town-
ley, High Life Bdow Stain].
Baba : the chief eunuch at the Court of Sultana Gulbeyas
[Byron, Don Juan}.
All : the narrator of the story of the ' Forty
Thieves' [Arabian Nights}.
Cassim : the brother of Ali Baba, who forgot the
password ' sesame ' and so got shut into the cave
[Arabian Night*}.
——— Hajji : the hero of a romance the scene of which
is laid in Persia [James Morier, Adventure* of Hajji
Baba of Ispahan}.
— — — Mustapha : the cobbler who pieced together
Cassim's body after it had been cut up by the forty
thieves [Arabian Nights].
Babe Christabel : tee Christabel, Babe.
Babley, Eichard : generally called Mr. Dick, a kindly
lunatic, whose madness showed chiefly in relation to
the head of King Charles I [Dickens, David Copper-
field}.
Bachelor, The : an old gentleman who sheltered Nell and
her grandfather at a village where they halted in their
wanderings [Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop].
Backbite, Sir Benjamin : a cynical scandal- monger, the
nephew of Crabtree [Sheridan, School for Scandal}.
Bacon, Frier : a conjuror and one of the leading characters
[Greene, Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay}.
Badger, Mr. and Mrs. Bayham : a doctor, the third husband
of Mrs. Badger, and the man to whom Richard Carstone
is apprenticed [Dickens, -Bleak House}.
— — — Squire : a character in the drama [Fielding, Doit
Quixote in England].
Will : a favourite servant of Sir Hugh Robsart
[Scott, KenUworth].
Badman, Mr. : the chief character of the work [Bunyan,
Life and Death of Mr. Badman].
Badoura : the daughter of Gaiour, King of China, the
loveliest woman that ever lived [Arabian Nights].
Badroulboudour : the beautiful daughter of the Sultan of
China, who married Aladdin [Arabian Nights].
Bagarag. Shibli : a whimsical youth who goes through most
remarkable adventures and finally shaves Shagpat
[George Meredith, Shaving of Shagpat].
Bagot, William : leading a Bohemian life in Paris with
two friends and known as 'Little Billee'. He is the
greatest artist of his age. The hero of the story who
ultimately marries the heroine [Du Maurier,
BA3 22 CAL
Bagshot : belonged to a gang of burglars who broke into
Lady Bountiful's house [Farquliar, Beaux' Strata-
ycm].
Bagman, The One-eyed : a jovial, elderly man whom Mr.
Pickwick meets at Eatanswill and Bristol. He tells
the ' Barman's Story ' [Dickens, Pickwick Papers}.
Bagstock, Major Joe : a retired military officer and friend
of.MUsTox; wooden-featured and blue-faced [Dickens,
Dombcy & Son].
Bahadar : Master of the Horse to the King of the Mafi
[Arabian Nights].
Bahiaan, Prince : eldest son of Sultan Khrosson-schah of
Persia [Arabian Nights].
Bailey, Junior : a sharp boy in the service of Mrs. Todgerg,
at her boarding-house [Dickens, Martin ChuzzleirU].
Bailie, Giles : a gipsy, the father of Oabrael Faa [Scott,
Guy Mannerinq}.
Baillie [or Bafflyl, Harry : the host of the Tabard Inn, who
is the first to propose the telling of tales by the way
[Chaucer, Canterbury Talet : Prologue].
Bajazet : surnamed ' The Thunderbolt ', Sultan of Turkey
[Rowe, Tamirlane].
Bakbarah the Toothless : brother of the barber of Bagdad,
known as ' The Silent Man ' [Arabian Nights].
Balaam, Sir : ' a citizen of sober fame, a plain good man '.
It is not known for whom the poet intended this
[Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle iii.].
BalaJre, Le : tee Lesly, Ludoric.
Balak : this character was meant for Dr. Burnet, author
of the Bittory of the Reformation [Dryden and Tate,
Absalom and Achilophet, pt. ii.].
Balan : brother of Baliu ; a very valiant knight [Mallory,
f{istor>/ of Prince Arthur].
Balance, Justice : the father of Sylvia [Farquhar, Recruit
ing Officer].
Balaustion : the subject of the poem ; a Greek girl of
Rhodes. Her history is continued in ' Aristophanes'
Apoloj'/' [R- Browning, Balaustion's Adventure].
Balder : the hero of a long and rather stilted poem [Dobell,
Solder].
the hero of a fine poem in three parts [Matthew
Arnold, Solder Dead}.
Balderstone, Caleb : the devoted servant of the Master of
Ravenswood [Scott, Bride of Lammermoor].
Baldrick : ancestor of Eveline Berenger, who thinks she sees
his ghost frowning upon her [Scott, Betrothed],
Baldringham, The Lady Ermengarde of : great-aunt of
Eveline Berenger [Scott, Betrotiied].
BAL 23 BAM
Baldwin : tutor of Kollo and Otto, Dukes of Norma < y ;
afterwards put to death by Rollo [Beaumont, Bl.ody
Brother],
Count : an obstinate old man whose wilfulnesa
and indiscretion cause infinite woe to himself and all
who belong to him [Southern, Fatal Marriage],
Count : one of the leaders of the First Crusade
[Scott, Count Robert of Paris}.
de Oyley : preceptor to the KnighU Templars and
esquire to Sir Bois Guilbert [Scott, Ivanhoe].
Balfour ol Barley, John : a leader in the Covenanters'
army [Scott, Old Mortality].
Balm : a very valiant knight, and brother of Balan
[Hallory, History of Prince Arthur].
Baliol, Mrs. : a lady of position, who, upon her death, left
two series of tales as a legacy to Mr. Crof tangry [Scott,
Hijhland Widow].
Ballendino, Don Antonio : intended for a portrait or
Anthony Munday, the dramatist [Ben Jonson, Ca»t
it Altered].
Balmawhappla : a stupid, obstinate Scottish laird [Sooti,
Waverley].
Bahhasar : a merchant [Shakespeare, Comedy of Errori\.
Don Pedro's servant [Shakespeare, 3/ucA Ad*
About Nothing].
the name assumed by Portia when she pleads V.,~.
cause of Shylock in the Law Courts [Shakespeare.
Merchant of Venice].
Balthazar : the name of Borneo's servant [Shakespeare,
Romeo and Juliet].
the father of Volante, Zamora and Juliana [Tobii.,
Honeymoon].
Balwhidder. Mr. Micah : the prejudiced, but kindly Presby
terian minister of the parish of Daltnailing. Th»
writer of the Annals [Gait, Annal» of the Piirith].
Baly : an Indian king, who upheld justice and redressed
wrongs [Southey, Curie of Kehama].
B amber. Jack : a little old man whom Mr. Pickwick meeU
at the Alaypie and Stump [Dickens, Pickurick Paper i],
Eampiylde, Bertha : always called Bardie and known v»
the Maid of Sker. Cast away in infancy and rescued
by David Llewellyn.
Captain Drake : son of Sir Pliilip Bampfylde.
wrongly accused of the murder of his brother's chil
dren.
Sir Philip : the grandfather of ' Bardie '.
Squire Philip : father of Bardie and Harry 8*r*s»
[Bla«kmore, Maid of Sk«r].
BAN 24 BAR
Bin, King : King of Benwick, brother of Bore, King of
Gaul, and father of Sir Launcelot [Mallory, Hittory of
Prince Arthur].
Banastar, HumJrey : the adopted son of Henry, Duke of
Buckingham, whom he betrayed to his death [attrib.
Sackville, Mirrour for Magistraytes].
Banks : a farmer who is the terror of the Witch of Edmonton,
Mother Sawyer [Rowley, Dekker and Ford, Witch of
Edmonton}.
Nanse : the schoolmistress of Dalmailing [Gait,
Annals o1 the Parish].
Eanqno : a Scottish thane, foully murdered by order of
Macbeth ; his ghost afterwards appears at a banquet
[Shakespeare, Macbeth].
Bantam, Angelo Cyrus, Esq., M.C. : a friend of Mr. Dowler
and master of the ceremonies at a ball at Bath,
attended by Mr. Pickwick [Ifickens, Pickwick
Papers].
Baptista : father of Katherine and Bianca [Shakespeare,
Taming of the Shrew].
Baptist! Damiotti : a Paduan quack, the owner of a magic
mirror [Scott, Aunt Margaret's Mirror].
Barabas : the hero of the play, but really little better than
a monster [Marlowe, Jew of Malta].
- servant of Captain Ralph de Lascours [Stirling,
Orphan of the Frozen Sea].
Baradas, Count : succeeds Richelieu as chief minister to
Louis XIII, but his triumph is shortlived, and he is
arrested [Lytton, Richelieu].
Barbara : the housemaid at Mrs. Garland's, who marries
Kit Nubbles [Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop].
Barbary, Roan : the favourite horse of King Richard II
[Shakespeare, King Richard II].
Barbason : the name of a demon [Shakespeare, Merry
Wives of Windsor and King Henry V].
Bardell, Mrs. Martha : she brings an action against Mr.
Pickwick for breach of promise of marriage.
• Tommy : the son of Mrs. Bardell [Dickens, Pick
wick Paper*].
Bardo de' Bardi : a wealthy Florentine scholar, the father
of Romola [George Eliot, Romola].
Bardolph : an underbred, swaggering soldier, who ends
on the scaffold [Shakespeare, Merry Wivet of Windsor
and Henry IV].
Barkis, Mr. ; the carrier who becomes the husband ol
Clara Pegotty [Dickens, David CopperfiM].
Barlaach : an old soldier of Napoleon's Guard [Meniman,
Jiarltuch of the Guard].
BAR 25 BAR
Barlais, Kate : the woman who, to save the life of King
James I of Scotland, thrust her arm through the staple
of a door [V. O. Rossetti, King't Tragedy}.
Barley, Bill : the father of Clara.
- Clara : a gentle, pretty girl married to Herbert
Pocket [Dickens, Great Expectations}.
Barleycorn, Sir John : the personification of Ale and all
liquors made from barley [Ballad, Sir John Barleycorn,
also an ancient tract, The Arraigning and Indicting
of Sir John Barleycorn, Knt.].
Barmicide : a rich man who gave to Schacabac, who came
to him in distress for food, a make-pretence feast, where
there was really nothing on the table, but who, upon
his guest taking the jest in good part, relented and
fed him [Arabian Kights].
Barnaby, Widow : a vulgar woman always in search of
a second husband [Mrs. Trollope, Widow Barnaly ;
also a sequel, Widow Barnaby Married].
•• Eudge : tee Kudge, Barnaby.
Barnacle : the guardian of Precilla Tomboy [Bickerstafl,
Tin- Romp}.
Ferdinand : private secretary to Lord Decimns
Barnacle.
Lord Decimut Tite : a peer in great authority at
the Circumlocution Office.
- Mr. Tite : ' a man of family, a man of place,'
who coaches the statesman at the head of the Circum
locution Office [Dickens, Little Don-it].
Barney : a low-class Jew who served in the public-house
frequented by Fagin [Dickens, Oliver Tu'isl].
Sarnstable, Lieutenant : a sailor in love with Kate Plow-
den ; he narrowly escapes hanging, by order of hi»
own father [Fitzball, The Pilot}.
Barnwell, George : an apprentice who falls in love with
a girl who encourages him in evil ways. He robs his
master and uncle, and ends by being condemned to
death [Lillo, George Barnwell].
Ban-abas : tee Barabas.
Barraclough : a preaching Methodist tailor, the leader of
those who wreck Eobert Moore'i mills [Charlotte
Bronte, Shirley].
Rev. Amos : a Primitive Methodist minister,
in love with Jessie Roantree [Kipling, LHe'i Handicap.
Barsisa, Santon : in The Guardian, the basis of M. G. Lewis-
novel The Monk.
Barston : a Jesuit who corresponds with the Countess of
Derby and assumes the name of Fenwicke [Scott*
PeverO, of the Peak],
BAR £3 BAT
Bartoldo : a rich old miser [Milman, Fazio].
Bartolus : a lawyer, and the husband of Amaranta [J.
Fletcher, Spanish Curate].
Barton. Amos : a struggling, well-meaning but dull clergy
man with small means and many children [George
Eli.tt, Scene* of Clerical Life : The Sad Fortune* of
the Rev. Amot Barton].
— — — Sir Andrew : a Scottish admiral who, obtaining
letters-of-marque, harried the Portuguese on the
high seas [Sir Andrew Barton : a ballad].
Mary : a Lancashire factory-hand, the heroine of
the story, whose lover is wrongfully accused of murder
[Mrs. Gaakell, .Ifary Barton].
Basil : the Blacksmith of Grand Pre, to whose son Evan-
geline is betrothed [Longfellow, Evangdinc].
Count : the hero of the drama [Joanna Baillie,
Count Batil].
Basilisco : a foolish and boastful knight [potsibly Kyd,
Soliman and Perteda].
Basilius : the King of Arcadia [Sidney, Arcadia].
Bassanio : the friend for whom Antonio's life is nearly
forfeited, and the husband of Portia [Shakespeare,
Merchant of Venice].
Basset : a swindler and forger [Gibber, Provoked Husband].
Bassianus : the lover of Lavinia [Shakespeare, TUut
Andronicus],
Bassino : Aurelia's 'perjured husband' [Mrs. Centlivre,
Perjured Husband],
Bassiolo : a foolish and vain gentleman usher [Chapman,
Bassiolo].
Bates : one of Henry V"s sentinels on the eve of Aginconr'.
with whom the king talks [Shakespeare, King Uoiry
V].
Charley : one of Fagin's most expert pupils [Dickens,
Oliver Tu-ist].
Frank : a sensible man who tries to check his
friend Whittle's folly [Garrick, Irish Widotf].
- Miss : a good-natured, harmless fool ; aunt of
Jane Fairfax [Jane AusUn, Emma].
Bath, Major : a poor, proud and honourable gentleman
who seeks to hide his poverty [Fielding, Ame
lia].
Wife of : one of the ' Pilgrims ' and one of the
story-tellers, choosing ' Midas ' as her subject [Chaucer,
Canterbury Tales : The Wife of Bath].
Battle, Mrs. Sarah : ' Old Sarah Battle ... who next to her
devotions loved a good game of whist ' [Lamb, Essay $
of £Ua: Mr*. BatUt's Opinion* on Whitt].
BAW 27 BEA
Bawdin, Sir Charles : the hero of a ballad [Chatterton,
T.'ie Rristow Tragedy : or, The Death of Sir Charle*
Bawdin].
Bayard : the charger of Fitz-James [Scott, Lady of the
fa*4
Bayes : intended as a caricature of Dryden [Duke of
Buckingham, Rehearsal].
Bayb am, Fred : a kindly, unbusiness like Bohemian ; a
friend of Pendennis [Thackeray, Pendennit].
Bazzard, Mr. : clerk to Mr. Grewgious [Dickens, Edwin
Drood].
Beadle, Harriet: known as ' Tattycoram', a foundling,
servant to Minnie Meagles [Dickens, Little Dorrit}.
Beagle, Sir Harry : a commonplace country gentleman
whose chief interest ia horses, and (or one of these
he barters Harriet [Colman the Elder, Jealous Wife].
Beamish, Beau : the autocratic leader of society at a
fashionable resort, whither came Duchess Susan, who
was the unwitting came of a tragedy [George Mere
dith, Tale of Chloe].
Bean, Alice : the daughter of a Highland robber who
nurses Waverley.
Lean, Donald : a Highland robber-chieftain known
by the name of Will Ruthven ; the father of Alice
[Scott, Waverley].
Beatrice : niece of Leonato ; witty and high-spirited, she
falls in love with and marries Benedick [Shakespeare,
Much Ado About Nothing].
——— the chief character in the story. A beautiful
woman of dangerous character [Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Rappacinf* Duugktrr}.
—— Joanna : an unscrupulous girl who incites De
Flores to murder a lover to whom she objects [Middle-
ton, Changelimj}.
Beatrix : maid to Theodosia and Jacintha [Drydeo, An
Evening"* Love ; or, Mock Astrologer].
see Castlewood, Beatrix.
Beauchamp, Nevil : a young naval officer who throws
himself ardently into politics on the side of the ad
vanced Radicals. He marries Jenny Denham after
being in love with two other women. Is drowned
rescuing a boy [George Meredith, Beaurhamp's Career],
Beaufort: the lover of Maria Wilding [Murphy, Tht
Citizen].
Cardinal : great-uncle of Henry VI, and Bishop
of Winchester [Shakespeare, Henry VI, pt. U.J.
Robert : a deceitial humbug [Lytton, Nitiht and
Horning].
BEA 28 BEG
Beaugard, Captain : chief character in both plays [Otway,
The Soldier't Fortune and Atheist].
Old : the extravagant father of Captain Beaugard
[Otway, Atheist].
Beanjeu, Mons. le Chevalier de : the keeper of a gambling-
house to which Nigel was taken [Scott, Fortune* of
Kigd}.
Mons. le Comte de : an officer in the Pretender'*
army [Scott, W averley].
Beaumains : the nickname of Gareth, son of King Lot
[Mallory, History of Prince Arthur].
Bcaumanoir", Sir Lneas : Grand-master of the Knights
Templars [Scott, Ivanhoe].
Beaupre : brother of Samira and son of Vertaigne [Bean-
mont and Fletcher, Little French Lawyer}.
Beck, Gilead P. : an American who, whilst devoted to
coining money himself, has an admiration for learn
ing [Besant and Rice, Golden Butterfly}.
Madame : the proprietress of a girls' board
ing-school in Brussels [Charlotte Bronte, F*Z-
Irtte].
Beckwith, Alfred : the man whom Julius Slinkton attempt*
to murder [Dickens, Hunted Down}.
Bede, Adam : a village carpenter, in love with Dinah
Morris [George Eliot, Adam Bede].
-^— Seth : the brother of Adam Bede [George Eliot,
Adam Bede}.
Beder : son of Gulnare, King of Persia. He had the
power of living under water as comfortably as on
land [Arabian Nights].
Bedivere, Sir : ' first made and latest left of all the knights '
of the Bound Table [Alfred Tennyson, Patting of
Arthur].
Eedreddin Hassan : the son of Noureddin Ali, Grand Vizier
of Basora, and nephew to the Vizier of Egypt A
man of resplendent beauty [Arabian Nights].
Bedwin, Mrs. : the kind, motherly housekeeper of Mr.
Brownlow [Dickens, Oliver Twist].
Beefington. Milor : an English nobleman exiled through
the tyranny of King John [Canning, Rovers}.
Beelzebub : ' Than whom, Satan except, none higher sat '
[Milton, Paradite Lost}.
Beevor. Sir Maurice : the would-be assassin of Arthur and
Percy, that he might succeed to their estates. His
evil designs came to naught [Lytton, Sea-Cap
tain].
8e«. Toshach : acts as second to MacGillie Chattanach
at the combat [Scott, Fair Maid of Perth},
BEG 29 BEL
Beggar, The Blind : the original ' blind beggar ' is said to
have been Henry, son of Simon de Montfort, who
assumed blindness to escape detection after the battle
of Evesham [Chettle and Day, Blind Beggar of Bethnal
Green].
Behram : the captain of the ship which was to take Prince
Assad to his death [Arabian Nightt].
Beichaa, Young : supposed to have been Gilbert Becket,
the father of St Thomas & Becket [Young Beichan :
a ballad].
Belarius : a soldier in the army of Cymbeline who kidnapped
the king's two sons, whom he afterwards restored to
their father [Shakespeare, Cymbeline].
Belch, Sir Toby : a witty but dissipated old man ; the
• uncle of Olivia [Shakespeare, Twelfth Night].
Belcour : a foundling adopted by a wealthy Jamaica mer
chant, whose grandson he proved to be [Cumberland,
West Indies].
Seleses : a Chaldean prophet who told Arbaces that he
would become King of Nineveh and Assyria [Byron,
Sardanapalus].
Belfleld, Andrew : an utter scamp who was on the point
of committing bigamy with Sophia Dove.
Robert : the brother of Andrew who becomes the
husband of Sophia Dove [Cumberland, Brothert].
a character said to have been dawn from that of
a Mr. Percival Stockdale [Fanny Burney, Cecil
ia].
Bellond : a good-tempered man but dissolute [Thomas
Shadwell, Squire of Alsatia].
Belford : one of the characters in this comedy [Colman
and Garrick, ClancUttine Marriage].
the friend of Lovelace [Richardson, Claritta
Harlowe].
Major : the affianced husband of Mdlle. Florival
and the friend of Colonel Tamper [Colman the Elder,
The Deuce it in Him].
Belgarde : a poor captain who, being cautioned not to
appear at dinner in shabby clothes, dona his only
other suit^-one of full armour [ilassinger, Unnatural
Combat].
Balge : the mother of seventeen sons [Spenser, Fairy
Belial "Tj '
fallen angel whose ' tongue dropped manna, and
could make the worse appear the better reason '
[Milton, Paradite Lott].
Belianis, Don, of Greece : the hero of an old romance
[Hittaru of Don Belianit of Greece],
BEL 30 BEL
Belinda : a kind-hearted, slatternly maid of-all-work in a
lodging-house [H. J. Byron, Our Boyt}.
a smart but very ailected lady in lore with Bell-
mour [Congreve, Old Bathtlor}.
one of the two heroines [Maria Edgworth, Belinda].
one of the more important female characters in
th« comedy [Etherege, Man of Mode].
the daughter of Mr. Blandford, who loves Beverley
the brother of Clarissa [Murphy, AU in the Wrong].
the heroine [Pope, Rape of the Lock].
' a rich woman [Charles Shad well, Fair Quaker of
Deal].
a pretty heiress who marries Heartfree [Vanbrugh,
Bell, Adam : a noted outlaw, like Robin Hood, Clym of the
Clough, etc. [Percy, Rtlique*].
Bessy, and May Gray : the daughters of two gentle
men living near Perth who, with their lover, died of
the plague [Betty BcU and May Gray: a ballad].
Laura : the lovable and patient girl whose co
gtancy at last fixes the fickle fancy of Arthur Pe
dennis, whose wife she becomes [Thackeray, Pen-
denni,].
Mr. Knight (M.E.C.8.) : a member of the Mudfog
Association who exhibits a wax model of a man's
stomach [Dickens, Mudjog Attoeiation],
Peter : the subject of the poem [Wordsworth,
Peter Bell, a Tale in Verse}.
Bellair : a French officer held prisoner at Lichfleld [Far-
quhar, Beaux' Stratagem],
this character is said to have been the author's
portrait of himself [Etherege, Man of Mode].
Misi Biddy : in love with Captain Loveit, who,
though she flirts with Flash and Fribble, absolutely
declines to marry Stephen Loveit [Garrick, MUt in
Her Teent].
Bellamira : the subject of a tragi-comedy in two part*
[Killigrew, BMamire, Her Dream; or, The Love of
Shadou't].
the heroine of the comedy [Sedley, Bettamira ; tr,
The Mutreti].
•: Wildblood's friend; a lively young 'blood'
[Dryden, An Evening" t Love ; or. The Mock Attrologer].
a terribly sensible young man, who marries
Jacintha with her fortune of £30,000 [Hoadly, Sut-
piciout ffutband].
Lord : a character in the comedy [Thomas Shad-
well, Bury- fair].
EZL 31 BEL
Bellario : the name of a page [Beaumont and Fletcher,
Philatter].
Bellarmine : the despicable though fashionable lover of
Leonora [Fielding, Joteph Andrew*}.
Bellaston, Lady : an immodest woman upon whose charity
Tom Jones lives [Fielding, Tom Jonet].
BeUefontaine, Benedict: the father of Evangeline [Txsng-
fellow, Evangcline}.
Bellenden, Edith : in love with Morton, i leader of the
Covenanters, but betrothed to Lord Evandale.
Lady Margaret : an enthusiastic royalist, the grand
mother of Edith.
Major : the brother of Lady Margaret [Scott,
Old Mortality].
Bellenr : a blunt man, in love with Kosalura [J. Fletcher,
Wild Goose Chase].
Bellicent : the daughter of Gorlois and Ygerne, and half-
sister to King Arthur [Mallory, History of Princ*
Arthur].
Bellingham : a man about town [Dion Boucicault, After
Dark}.
Bellisant : sister of King Pepin and married to Alexander,
Emperor of Constantinople [Valentine and Orion}.
Bellmont, George : the hero, in love with Clarissa, to whom
his father is opposed. Ultimately the lover triumphs.
— — Sir William : the father of George, a tyrannical
and obstinate old man [Murphy, All in the Wrong].
Belloni, Sandra : the daughter of an exiled Italian and
an English woman. Discovered by the Poles, singing
In a wood, and received into their family. In love
with Wilfred Pole, who discards her and then vainly
tries to win her back [George Meredith, Sandra Selloni].
Belmont, Charles : a dissipated young man, the son of Sir
Robert, who marries Fidelia.
Sir Robert : a friend of Sir Charles Raymond.
Roti-Ua : the witty daughter of Sir Robert, who
marries Colonel Raymond [Edward Moore, The
Foundling].
Bellmour : the friend of Jane Shore [Rowe, Jane Shore].
Belmour, Edward : a lively young man of the world
[Congreve, Old Bachelor].
Mrs. : a widow with ' a feeling heart ' [Murphy.
Way to Keep Him}.
Belphoebe : intended for Queen Elizabeth, and adorned
with every virtue [Spenser, Faery Queene].
azzar : the hero of a drama by Milman, and of a
Hebrew melody by Byron called The Vition of Bel-
BEL 32 BEN
Beltham, Squire : a very rich and fierce-tempered county
magnate, whose daughter Richmond Koy has secretly
married. The old type of squire, strong, competent,
racy of the soil [George Meredith, Adventure* of Harry
Richmond].
Belvawney, Miss : a member of Mr. Vincent Crummle'a
Company at the Portsmouth Theatre [Dickens, Nicholas
Niddeby].
Belridera : the heroine, whose sorrows so affect her mind
tli-it she becomes insane [Otway, Venice Preserved}.
Belville : Peggy's lover [Garrick, The Country Girl].
Ben-Hur : a young Jew ; the leading character in the
book, the scene of which is laid in the time of Christ
[Wallace, Ben-Bur}.
Ben Jochanan : intended for the Rev. Samuel Johnson
.. . [Dryden and Tate, Absalom and Achitophel, pt.
laiah
i : Intended for General Sackville [Dryden and
Tate, Absalom and Achiiophel, pt. ii.].
Benaskar : a merchant of Delhi [Ridley, Talcs of the Genii].
Benevolus : intended for a portrait of John Courtney
Throckmorton [Cowper, The Task],
Benedick : a witty and dashing young nobleman, the
complement of Beatrice, whom he marries [Shake
speare, Much Ado About Nothing}.
Benbow : a good-natured drunkard, whose follies caused
him to end his days in the workhouse [Crabbe, Tht
Borough].
Benbowie, Laird of : faithful friend and constant visitor
of the Chief of Glenroy, but stupid, coarse, and un
couth [Susan Ferrier, Destiny].
Benjie, Little : Benjamin Colthred, a spy in the employ of
Cristal Nixon [Scott, Redgauntlet}.
Bennet, Brother : a monk at the Convent of St. Mary
[Scott, Monastery].
Elizabeth : the most captivating of all this
authoress's heroines. After sundry tribulations she
marries Darcy.
— — - Jane : the favourite sister of Elizabeth.
Lydia: a frivolous girl, the sister of the heroine.
She elopes with Mr. Wickham from the garrison town
near her home.
Mrt. : the foolish mother of the heroine.
Mr. : a witty and cynical recluse, bored to death
by the follies of his wife and younger daughters [Jane
Austen, Pride and Prejudice].
" Mrs. : an intriguing woman of doubtful character
[Fielding, Amelia],
BEN 33 BER
Benson : the butler at Raynham Abbey, the seat of Sir
Avwtiu PevereL ii <s a trreat mistrust for women, and
is beaten by Kichard Feverel for spying on him and
Lucy Desborough [George Meredith, Ordeal of itichard
Fcvcrd].
Banton. Miss : Master Humphrey's housekeeper, to whom
Tony Weller proposes marriage, but ia rejected
[Dickens Master Humphrey'* Clock}.
Benvciio : a quarrelsome member of the Montague faction.
A friend of Romeo's [Shakespeare, Romeo and Julia}.
Beowulf : a Norse Viking and hero of the earliest known
Ei.glish poem [Beowulf],
Beppo : the Lusband of Laura, captured by Turks, and
returning to Venice to find his wife at a ball with
some one else [Byron, Scppo].
Berenser, Eveline : betrothed to Sir Hugo de Lacy, who
reUnciuishes his claims in favour of Sir Damian de
Lacy, his nephew.
- Sir Raymond : an old Norman knight, the father of
Eveline [Scott, Betrothed].
Berintbia : a young vidow in love with Townly ; she
UirU with Loveless so as to excite Townly's jealousy
[Sheridan, Trip to Scarborough, adapted from
Vanbrutfh's L'flapse].
Berkely, Latiy Augujta : disguises herself as a minstrel,
and tin illy marries Sir John de Walton [Scott, Cattle
Berkley, Mr. : a kindly old English bachelor of eccentric
habits [Longfellow, Hyperion].
Berkeley, Old Woman oJ : the subject of a ballad [Southey,
Old Urom<m of Berktl<y]
Berkrolles, Master Roger : the schoolmaster of Newton
Nottoge [Blackrnore, Maid of Sker].
Bernardo : intended to represent Joseph Haslewood
[T. F. Dibdin, Bibliomania ; or, Book- M adnett}.
- an oificer ; a friend of Hamlet's, to whom the Ghost
appeared during his watch [Shakespeare, Hamlet],
- del Carpio : a Spanish knight of the ninth century
[Felicia D. Hemaus, Bernardo del C'ttrpio : a bal
lad].
Berry, Mrs. : the old nurse of Richard Feverel, and later on
the tried friend of Lucy Feverel [George Meredith,
Ordeal of Richard Feverel].
Bertha : a blind girl, the daughter of Calsb Plummer
[Dickens, Cricket on. the Hearth].
- the reputed daughter of the Burgomaster of Bruges,
but really Gertrude, the daughter of the Duke of
Brabant [J. Fletcher, Beggar1 't £uth].
w.w.y. D
BER 34 BF3
Bertha: alias Agatha. She eventually marries Hereward,
one of the Emperor's guards [S.:uU, (.'mint livbrrl of
I'ar.i}.
Bertoltlo : a knight of Malta and brother of the king of
the two Sicilies. He loves Camiola, but jilta her for
Aurelia [Massiuger, Maid of Honwr].
Bertram : a conspirator against the Kepublic of Venice
who betrayed the plot [Byron, Marino Falicro}.
Edmund : the most attract! ve of this writer's
clergymen, and married to the heroine, Fanny Price.
Julia : married to Mr. Vates.
I^uiy : an indolent, self-indulgent woman. The
aunt of Fanny Price, the heroine.
Maria : married to Mr. Rushworth ; she finally
elopea with Henry Crawford.
Sir Thomat : a rather punctilious but strictly
honourable and really kindly man— -ihe staunch friend
of Fanny Price.
Tom : the scape-grace, eldest son of Sir Thomas
Bertram [Jane Austen, Mansfield Park],
- Count : an outlaw and leader of a robber-band,
•who is wrecked on the coast of Sicily. After com
mitting various crimes he commits suicide [Maturiti,
HtTtram}.
Count ol Rousfllon : the man to whom Helena is
married as a reward for restoring the King to health.
He leaves her, but Helena wins his love in the end
through a ruse [Shakespeare, All's Well that Entlt
Well].
Frederick : the son of Sir Stephen, who marries
against his father's wishes but is finally taken back
into favour.
Sir Stephen : a just but close-fisted man who dis
inherits his son for marrying a girl of no position.
She proves to be rich, «o he relents [Cumberland, The
Jew}.
Henry : the son of the Laird of Ellangowan, who
marries Julia Maunering.
Lvry : sister of HeDrv Bertram, and, in the end, wife
of Charles Hazlewood [Scott, Guy Mnnnering}. There
are many other members of the family.
Bertnlphe : the son of a serf who through industry wins
wealth and power and is appointed Provost of Bruges
[Knowles, J'rovoit of Bruges}.
Berwine : the maid of Lady Ermengarde [Scott, The Be-
troditd].
Eess : the daughter of the Blind Beggar [ChetUe and Day
Blind Bfygar o' Kefhnal Orefnl
BIS 35 B-A
Besselia : the girl beloved by Captain Crowe [Smollett,
Sir Launeeloi Qreaves}.
Bessie Bell and May Gray : tee Bell, Bessie.
Bossus : a cowardly, swaggering army captain [J. Fletcher,
King and No King].
Bet or Betsy : a thief employed by Fagin, and an ac
quaintance of Nancy [Dickens, Oliver Twist].
Bettris : the country girl in love with George-a-Greeii«
[Greene, Oeorge-a-Oreene].
Sevan, Mr. : an American doctor who lends Martin Chuzzle-
wit and Mark Tapley money to help them back to
England from America [Dickens, Martin ChuzzlewU].
Beverley : the rather questionable hero. Naturally of good
instincts he allows himself to be led aatray by Stukely
and at last dies a miserable death.
Charlotte : sister of ' the Gamester ' and ruined
by him, but married by Lewson in spite of her poverty.
Mrs. : ' the Gamester's ' faithful but unhappy
wife [Edward Moore, The Gamester}.
Beverley : a very jealous but constant lover, who marrie*
Belinda Blandford.
Clarissa : betrothed to the son of Sir William
Bellmont [Murphy, All in the Wrong}.
Ensign : tee Absolute, Captain.
Bevil : a witty society man [Charles Shadwell, Eptom
Wells}.
a very finished and courteous gentleman [Steele,
Consrious Lovers].
Francis. Harry and George : three brothers all,
unknowingly, suitors for the hand of the same lady.
The youngest brother — a soldier — wins [O'Brien,
Cross l'ur/>ose>].
Bevu of Southampton, Sir : deserted on a desert as a baby,
he was brought up as a shepherd, then exiled and sold
to an Armenian who presented him to the king, whose
daughter he married and eventually regained his
lands and titles in England [Drayton, PolyoWion}.
Lord Mannion's charger [Scott, Marmion].
Bianca : a beautiful character in the play [ilassinger,
Rowley and Fletcher, Fair Maid of lite Inn\.
married to Leontio, and a very beautiful woman,
whose virtue is attempted by a bad woman [Middleton,
Women Beware Women}.
bears evidence against her hnsband, accusing him
of murder, and then, upon liis being condemned to
death, goes mad and dies [Milman, Faz*o\.
the woman whom lago perr.iades to steal Desde-
mona's liandkerchief [Shakespeare, Otnetto].
BIA 36 B1R
the younger sister of ' the Shrew,' who marries
Lucentio as soon as Petrucchio has married Katherine
(Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew].
Capella : tee Capella, Bianca.
Bibbet, Master : private secretary to General Harrison, a
parliamentary commissioner [Scott, Woodstock].
Bickerton. Mrs. : of the Seven Start Inn, York, the hostelry
where Jennie Deans stays on her way to London
[Scott, Heart of Midlothian}.
Biddy : the girl who married Joe Oargery after falling in
k>ve with Pip [Dickens, Grfct Experiationt}.
Bidmore, Hon. Augustus : pupil of Mr. Cargill.
Lard : patron of Mr. CargiU.
Min Awutta : beloved by Mr. CargilJ [Scott, St.
Ronan't Weil].
Biedennan. Arnold : uncle of Anne and father of Rudiger,
Ernest, Sigismund and UlricJi [Scott, Anne of Geicr-
»tein].
Biglow, Hosea : the pretended author of a lot of satirical
political poems on the side of the anti-slavery move
ment [Lowell, Billow Paper*].
Bfler,' The : tee Toodle, Robin.
BJlee. Little : tee Bagot, William.
Little : one of three Bristol sailors who went to
sea. Being on the point of starvation the others re
solved to eat Little Billee [Thackeray, Little BiUec].
Bimbister. Margery : the wife of Ranzelman [Scott, Pirate}.
Cindloose, John : a banker at Marchthorn who alao serves
aa sheriffs clerk [Scott, St. Ronan't Well].
Bingley. Mr. : a neighbour of the Bennet family, who ulti
mately marries Jane Bennet.
Hinfleyt, The Mitt : the stuck-up, impertinent sisters of
Mr. Bingley, the lover of Jane Bennet [Jane Austen,
Pride and Prejudice}.
Sinks, Sir Bingo and Lady : visitors at the Spa : a fox
hunting baronet and his wife, who had been llisj
Rachel Bonnyrigg [Scott, St. Ronan't WeO].
Binnie, James : an old Anglo-Indian and a friend of Colonel
Newcome's [Thnckeray, The Newcomr*}.
Binnorie, Hie Twa Sisters o' : one sister, from motives of
jealousy, drowns the other, etc., etc. [Ttca Sittert o'
Binnorie: a ballad].
Biondeils : servant to Lucentio [Shakespeare, Taming
of the Shrftf].
——— Dr. : this is the name of a Christinas tale by
Thackeray.
Birch, Harvey : one of the chief characters [Cooper, Tat
BIR 37 BL\
Birdlime : a man of evil character [Webster, Westward
lion
Bireno, Duke : destined by the King of Lombardy to wed
Sophia, he plots to deceive him. In the end Bireno
is slain by Paladore, the man who Sophia really loved
[Jephson, Law of Lombardy }.
Biron : a favourite of Henry IV of France, and the hero
of two plays [Chapman, Siren's Conspiracy aud
Birori* Tragedy].
- a witty, jesting attendant on King Ferdinand of
Navarre, in love with Rosaline [Shakespeare, Love's
Labour's Lost].
• the eldest son of Count Baldwin ; he marries
Isabella, a nun, and is therefore disinherited by his
father [Southern, Fatal Marriage].
Harriet : the girl with whom Sir Charles Grandison
was in love [Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison].
Birtha : the only child of Astragon for whom she gathered
' simples ' in spring, summer and autumn. She falls
in love with Gondibert who plights his troth to her
[Davenant, Gondibert].
Bitherston, Master : one of the boarders at Mrs. Pipchin's
School [Dickens, l>ombcy and Son].
Bittlebrains, Lord and Lady : friends of Sir William Ashton,
Lord-keeper of Scotland [Scott, Bride of Lammermoor}.
Bitzer : a pupil of Mr. M'Cloakumchild's who becomes a
light-porter at Bounderby's Bank, and is instrumental
in the capture of Tom Gradgriud [Dickena, Hard
Time*].
Bizarre : a vivacious lady, the friend of Oriana, and apt
to play the coquette [Farquhar, The Jnronttant].
Black, Bell : niece of Mrs. St. Glair, who afterwards marries
Major Waddell.
tTiii : sister to Mrs. St. Glair.
Miss Mary : the invalid sister of Mrs. St. Clalr
[Susan E. Ferrier, The lnherit<tnte],
Black-eyed Susan : see Susan, Black-eyed.
Blackacre, Widow : a perverse and quarrelsome woman
[Wych-rly, Plain Dealer].
Blackler,-,, Tcmolin : a guardsman In the army of lUchard I
[Scott, Tvlitman].
Blackpool, Stephen : a ' hand ' in Bounderby's mill ; the
man on whom Tom Gradgrind cast suspicion when he
robbed the bank [Dickens, Hm-d Time*).
Bladamour : the friend of Paridel [Spenser, Faery Queene],
Blair, Adam : a Scottish minister who strayed from the
paths of virtue, but reoented [Lockhart, Adam Blair :
m Story of Scottish Li/el
BLA 33 BLI
Blair, Father Clement : a Carthusian monk, the Confessor
of Catherine Glover' [Scott, Fair Maul o/ Perth}.
Blaize. Mrs. Mary : the subject of a comic elegy [Goldsmith,
Mr*. Mar,, Mniie : an elegy on the Glory ol her Sex].
Blanch ardine and Eglantine : a romance of the Middle
Ages printed by William Caxton.
Blanche : the niece of King John of England [Shakespeare,
King John}.
• Lady : vowa, with Lady Anne, to remain unmarried,
then promptly falls in love with Thomas Blount
[Knowle*. Old Maid,}.
Blanchefieur : the heroine of a mediaeval prose romance.
Blancove, Edward : ruins Dahlia Fleming, but afterwards
repents and tries to marry her . In this he is unsuc
cessful [George Meredith, Rhoda Firming].
Blandamour, Sir : an insolent knight who attacked Brito-
mart but was undone by her enchanted spear [Spenser,
Faery Queenf}.
Blandeville, Lady Emfly : a friend and neighbour of the
Waverley family who marries Colonel Talbot [.Scott,
Waverley].
Blandford : the father of Belinda, whom he promised to
George Bellmont ; but Belinda declined to marry any
one but Beverley.
Relinila : she married Beverlr-y against her father's
wishes [Murphy, All in the Wrong}.
Blandiman : serving-man to Bellisant [Valentine and
Orson.]
Blandina : wife of Turpin, an uncouth, inhospitable man
[Spenser, Faery Queenf].
Blandish, Mr. and Miss Letitia : both parasites and time-
servers who bow down before Miss Alscrip, ' the
heiress ' [Burgoyne, The Heirett].
Blaney : a wealthy man who brings himself to ruin by a
life of dissipation [Crabbe, The Borough].
Blatant Beast, The : supposed to typify slander or public
opinion [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Blathers : one of the detectives engaged in investigating
the burglary at Chcrtsey [Dickens, Oliver Ttvitt}.
Blattergrowl, The Rev. Mr. : minister of Trotcosey, near
Monkbarns [Scott, Antiquary].
Bletson, Master Joshua : a parliamentary Commissioner sent
by Cromwell to the Lees [Scott, Woodstock].
Bley<: : supposed to teach Merlin, but his pupil knew more
t.jin he did himself [Alfred Tennyson, IdyUt of the
King}.
BIJli : a deceitful friend of Tom's [Fielding, Tom
Jones}.
BLt 33 BLO
Blimber, Cornelia : a very learned young lady, the daugh
ter of Paul Doinbey's schoolmaster, who married Mr.
Feeder, the usher in her father's school.
Do'-lor and Mrs. : the proprietors of the school
to which Paul Dombey was seat at Brighton [Dickens,
Dombey and 5on].
Bliukinsop : a siniiififUr who plays a rather important
pirt in the story [.Scott, Redgaunlht].
Blister : an apothecary who courts Lucy [Fielding, The
Vif/in Unmasked].
Block, Martin : a minor character connected with the
Estates of Bursrundy when they refuse supplies to
Charles the Bold" [3cott, Anne of Geierslein}.
Blondel de Ne:le : the minstrel of Richard Coeur de Lion,
who discovered his master's place of concealment
[Scott, Talisman}.
Blood, Colonel Thomas : the Duke of Buckingham's emissary
[Scott, Peveril of the Peak].
Bloomaeld. Louisa : in love with the young barrister,
(..'harlcs Danvers, but betrothed to an old nobleman,
Lord Totterly [Selby, The Unfinished Gentleman].
Blotton, Mr. (of Aldgate) : the member of tho Pickwick
Club who dares to call Mr. Pickwick a ' humbug '
[Diokens, Pickieick Papers].
Blougram, Bishop : a low-minded bishop who had little
sympathy with idealists [R. Browning, Bishop Blou-
gram't Apology].
Blount. John : elder son of Master and Mistress Blount.
A vain snob who made love to a lady's maid under the
impression that she was a countess.
Master and Mistress : an honest and wealthy old
London jeweller and his wife.
Thomas : younger son of the Jeweller. A hand
some man of fine character, who enters the army
and marries Lady Blanche who had resolved to be
an ' old maid ' [J. 8. Knowles, Old Maids}.
Nicholas : master of the horse to the Earl of Sussex
[Scott, Kenilworth}.
Sir Frederick : a fop who could not, or did not,
pronounce his ' r"s ' [Lytton, Money].
Blower, Mrs. Margaret : the widow of a shipowner, who
takes for her second husband Dr. Quackleben [Scott.
St. Konan's Well].
Blowselinda : a shepherdess in love with Lobbin Clout
[Gay, Shepherd's Week].
Blowzelinda : a country girl who feeds the pigs, milks the
cows and performs a lot of lowly work [Gay, Shepherd" s
Week].
BLU 43 EOF
Blue-beard : Chevalier Raoul, a tj-rant with a bluebeard,
who disposes of one wife after another in a mysterious
*ay until the brothers of his eighth victim slay him.
A French »tory said to have been based on fact.
Bluett, Tht Hon. Rodney : nephew of Colonel Lougher,
afterwards married to Bardie [Blackmore, Maid of
Sker].
Bluff, Cap. Noll : the champion of fighting for fighting's
sake [Congreve, The Old Bachelor].
Blumine : a ' young, hazel-eyed, beautiful, high-born
maiden ' with whom Teufelsdrockh falls in love [Car-
lyle, Sartor JKetartui].
Blunt, Colonel : a royalist officer who, having declared
he would bow to no woman, falls hopelessly in love
with Arbella, an heiress [Howard, The Committee].
Major General : a brave and patriotic old cavalry
officer [Thomas Shadwell, The Volunteert].
Blnshington, Edward : an intensely shy young man, come
into a considerable fortune. Afterwards the accepted
suitor of Dinah Friendly [Moncrieff, Sashful Mc.n}.
Soabdelin. Mahomet : the last King of Granada [Dryden,
Conquest of Granada].
Boadi ea : wife of Trapsutagus, King of the Iceni. She
raised an army and burnt the Roman colonies in
London, Colchester, etc. [J. Fletcher, Boadirta].
Boanerges : a parson who is a violent denouncer of all those
who belong to other sects than his own, yet, out of the
pulpit friendly enough [Mrs. Oliphant, Salrm Cht;pd}.
Boar of Ardennes, The Wild : Giullaunfe Comte de la
Marck [Scott, Quenlin Durward].
Bob the Grinder : tee Toodle, Eobin.
Bobadil, Captain : one of this author's best creations. A
blustering, conceited coward with a panacea for the
tranquilization of Europe [Ben Jonson, Every Man in
His Humour].
Bobster, Miss Cecilia : the girl whom Newman Nepers
mistakes for Miss Madeline Bray.
Mr. : a fierce old man, the father of Cecilia [Dickens,
Sieholat Nickleby].
Boenf, Front de, Reginald : * very big and very fierce ', a
follower of John of England [Scott, Jvanhoe].
Boffin, Mrs. Henrietta : the daughter of a cat's-meat man,
greatly beloved and admired by her husband.
- Jfioodemui : called by his friends, Noddy. Hus
band of Henrietta, the ' golden dustman ' — a man of
great simplicity and perfect honesty, who came into
a large fortune and who shared it with the donors* son
[Dickens, Our Hvt-Mti Prieni}.
COH 41 BOO
Bohemond, Prince o! Antioeh : a crusader [Scott, Count
Robert of Paris].
Bohort, Sir, or King : King of Gaul and brother of King
Ban of Brittany. Also known as Bon, and Bort
[Mallory, History of Prince Arthur}.
Tois Guilbert, Brian de : a Knight Templar who insulted
Rebecca and was slain by Ivanhoe [Scott Ivanhof].
Kokhara : the King of Bokhara tolls his own story to his
Vizier [Matthew Arnold, Sick King of Bokhara].
Bold, John : surgeon and reformer, in love with Eleanor
Harding. The originator of the proceedings against
the Wardenship of Hiram's Hospital.
Mary : his sister. A woman of sterling but un
sentimental character [Anthony Trollope, The War
den].
Boldwig, Captain : a small, consequential and imperious
man, on to whose grounds Mr. Pickwick and his party
trespass whilst shooting, and in whose wheelbarrow
Mr. Pickwick is found asleep [Dickens, Pickwick
Papert],
Boldwood, Farmer : the man who shot Troy, Bathsheba's
husband [Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd].
Boleyn, Anne : second wife of Henry Vm, the subject of
a dramatic poem [Milman, Anne Boleyn].
Boznbardinian : general to King Chrononhotonthologos's
army. He fights the king and U killed [Carey,
Chrononhontholoyoi].
Bombastes Fnrioso : a general in the army of ArtaTa-
minous, King of Utopia, who is jilted by Distaffina fur
a gift of half-a-crown. A burlesque in ridicule of the
heroic style of Modem Operas [Rhodes, Bamba*t»
Furioto].
Bomby, Hope-on-High : a Puritan, appearing in a morris-
dance and denouncing worldly pleasures at the same
time [J. Fletcher, Women Pleated].
Bonilace : landlord of the inn at Lichfleld [Farquhar,
Beaux' Stratagem].
Father : the er-abbot of Kennaquhair, who play*
the part of Blinkhoodie, gardener at Kinross, and also
as the gardener at Dundreman [Scott, The Abbot}.
Abbot : becomes Superior of St. Mary's Convent,
in succession to Ingelram [Scott, Monaitery}.
Bonnie Lesley : *<"« Lesley, Bonnie.
Bonny : a waif, living with his jackass in a hollow of the
South Downs, and who renders valuable service to
the Lorraines [Blackmore, Alice Lorraine}.
Booby, Lady : intended as a caricature of Pamela, in
Ricliardson> novel [Fielding, Joteph Andrew*}.
BOD 42 BOW
Booth. Captain : said to be the author's portrait of him
self. He is drawn as a vicious and mean man [Field
ing AJH,H>I\.
Borachia : a drunken woman of low character [Massinger,
A Vtrg Woman}.
Boraobio : a villian, who plots most of the mischief. He
U a retainer of Don John, an<l betrothed to Margaret,
Hero's maid [Shakespeare, Much Ado About Hoik
ing}.
Joseph : landlord of the Eagle, In Salamanca,
• :i, Two Sl.'inyi to Tour Bow}.
Borouebelifl, Captain : a vulgar, boosting Yankee, the
butt of Long Tom Coffin [Fitzball, The Pilot}.
Borrc, Sir : a KnigM of the Round Table. The son of Arthur
and Lyonors [Mallory, Itistory of Prince Arthur}.
Bora, Sir : tee Bohort.
Bort. Sir : tee Bohort.
Boasnowl, Lady Clarinda : beloved by, and ultimately
married to, Captain Ktzchrome [Peacock, Crotchet
Cattle}.
Bos tana : one of the sisters whose task it was to administer
the bastinado to Prince : Assad, daily, during hi«
captivity, and who, out of pity, secretly set him free
[Arabian Xightt}.
Bos>val : the hero of a Scottish romance dating from the
sixteenth century [Botwal and Lillian}.
Both well : Mary of Scotland's paramour : the hero of *
Tale in verse by W. E. Aytoun, a Novel by James
Grant, and a Drama by A. C. Swinburne.
Bottom. Nick : a weaver and the leading spirit amongst
the yokels, who rehearse ' Pyramus and Thisbe
previous to acting it before Theseus and Hippolyta
[Shakespeare, Midtummer Night' t Dream}.
Bouitby, the Eev. Dr. : Vicar of Whinbury and friend of
Mr. Helstone [Charlotte Bronte, Shirley}.
Bouncer, Mr. : friend of Verdant Green, who resorta to
various ruses to aid his memory in examinations, and
who owns two doijs of note, Huz and Buz [Cuthbert
Bede (Edward Bradley), Verdant Green}.
Bounderby, Josiah : the ' Bully of Humility '. A pro
vincial banker, who makes a fortune and marries Louisa
Oradgrind [Dickens, Bard Timet}.
Bountiful, Lady : an easy-tempered, generous, old country-
gentlewoman [Fanjuhar, Beaux' Stratagem}.
Bourgh, Lady Catherine de : the vulgar patroness of Mr.
Collins [Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice}.
Bowley. Sir Joseph : an M.P. and, according to himself,
' the poor man's friend ' [Dickens, The Chime*}.
BOW 43 BRA
Bowling, Tom : the hero of a famous song [Charles Dibdin,
Tom honiing\.
Lieutenant Tom : one of the old type of seamen ;
rough, noisy, brave, and at heart tender as a woman
[Smollett, Roderick ItaniJom].
Bows : a hunchbacked violinist, and friend of the Costigans
[Thackeray, Pendennit}.
Bowyer, Master : usher of the black rod to Queen Elizabeth
[A-ntt, KerMworth}.
Bowzybeus : the siuger of some of the best songs in the
ral [Gay, Shepherd:! Week}.
Box and Cox : the names of the chief characters in a 'drama
tic romance of real life ' [J. M. Morton, Box and Cox].
Boxer : John Feerybingle's dog [Dickens, Cricket on the
Hearth].
Boyet : one of the lords In attendance on the Princes of
France [Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost].
Boythorne, Lawrence : a friend of Mr. Jarndyce, who had
a huge voice but tender heart [Dickeus, Mcnk House}.
Brabantio : the father of Desdemona ; a proud Venetian
noble [Shakespeare, Othello].
Braccio : an employe of the republic of Florence who tried
to discover actions to the discredit of General Luria,
but failed [R. Browning, Luria].
Bracidas : the brother of Amidos and son of Milesio, who
married Lucy [Spenser, Faery Qiieene].
Brackley : the hero of a Scottish ballad, wherein the wife
' Peggy ' eggs him on to fight against long odds and
rejoices at his death [Baron of Jirarkley].
Bracy, Sir Maurice de : an unsuccessful suitor for the hand
of Rowena [Scott, Jvanhoe].
Bradwardine, Baron Como Cosmyne : an adherent of
Prince Charlie, and the father of Rose.
— — Rose : the heroine, who marries Waverley [Scott,
Waverlea].
Brady, Martha : a widow at twenty-three she had a suitor
of sixty-three, whom she rejects in favour of his
nephew [Garrick, Irish Widow].
Brag, Jack : a man of low birth and vulgar manners who
strives to force his way into good society by the aid
of bounce and servility [Hook, Jack lirag].
Bragela : the daughter of Sorglan and wife of Cuthullin who
acted as regent during the minority of King Cormac
[Ossian, Fingal}.
Braggadochio : suppled to personify an unruly tongue
[Spenser, Faery Queene].
Brainworm : a man of many aliases and of shifty character
[Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour}.
ERA 44 ERA
Brake 1. Adrian : a gypsy, at one time the master of Fenella,
the pretended deaf-and-dumb girl [Scott, Peveril of
the Peak}.
Bramble, Matthew : a goaty, dyspeptic man, but kindly
and generous.
- if us Tdbitha : the sister of Matthew, who marries
Captain Lismahago. She is prim and vain and alto
gether ridiculous [3mollett, Humphrey Clinker].
—— Frederick : nephew and adopted son of Sir Robert.
Of generous and impulsive temper, lie marries Emily
Worthington.
- Sir Robert : rich and generous [Colman, the
Younger, Poor Gentleman].
£raa : the "log of Lamberg, the lover of Gelchossa [Ossian,
Fingal].
- the dog of Fingal, King of Morvefl [Ossian, Fingal].
F.rampton. Lady : one of the characters in the play [Steele,
The Funeral].
Brand, Alice : she makes the sign of the cross thrice on
the brow of Urgan, and having restored him thus to
human shape, discovers in him her own brother Ethert
[Scott, Lady of the Lake].
- Sir Denys : a country magnate who affects to be
very humble, and whilst mounting his groom on a
race-horse, rides a sorry nag himself [Crabbe, The
Borough],
Brandan, St. : the saint who met Judas floating on an
iceberg, Judas being respited from the flames i f IT< II
for one brief day as a recompense for his goodness to a
leper at Joppa [Matthew Arnold, St. Brandon].
Brandley, Mrs. : the lady who is to introduce Estella into
society [Dickens, Great Expectations].
Brandon, Colonel : lover and afterwards husband of
Marianne Dashwood [Jane Austen, Sense and Semi-
Brandt : the man who acted as leader to the Indians who
destroyed Wyoming [Campbell, Gertrude vf Wyom-
iny].
Brangtons, The : a family of vrilgar, malicious and jealous
girls [Fanny Burney, Evelina].
Branville. Sir Anthony : a solemn, ponderous lover, who
in thirteen years courts eight different women. A.
character acted by Garrick [Mrs. Sheridan, The Dis
covery].
Brass : the confederate of Dick Amlet [Vanbrugh, Th«
Confederacy].
- a deerhound belonging to Sheila [Black, A Princetl
of Thvle}.
BRA 45 BRI
Brass, Sally : the sister of Sampson, erea cleverer,
meaner, more repulsive than himself.
—— — Sampton : a low-class attorney of Bevis Marks
[Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop].
Bratts, Ned : he and his wife were both hanged for crimes
which both confessed [R. Browning, Dramatic IdyUi].
Bratti Ferravecchi : a goldsmith [George Eliot, Romola].
Bravassa, Miss : ons of Mr. Crummies' company at the
Portsmouth Theatre [Dickens, Nicholas NicklAy].
Bray, Madeline : a beautiful girl, who marries Nicholas
Nickleby [Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby].
Bray, Vicar ol : hero of a popular song. He is supposed
to have been one Simon Aleyn. Bray is a village in
Berksliire, and the song is supposed to have been
written by an army officer in the reign of George I.
Braymore, Lady Caroline : daughter of Lord Fitz-Balaam ;
she marries the Hon. Tom Shuffleton [Colman the
Younger, John Bull}.
Brazen, Captain : a recruiting officer in rivalry with
Captain Plume [Farquhar, Recruiting Officer].
Brecan : a mythical king of Wales, supposed to be the
father of twenty-four daughters [Drayton, Polyolbion].
Brechan, Prince : the father of St. Cadock the Martyr, and
St. Canock the Confessor [Drayton, Polyolbion].
Breitmann, Hans : the hero of a lot of humorous ballads in
Pennsylvania^! Dutch dialect [Leland, Ham Breiimann's
Party, etc.].
Breigwain : the go-between between Isolde and Sir
Tristram [Arthurian Cycle].
— — wife of Qwenwyn, Prince of Powys-land [Scott,
The Betrothed].
Brentford, The Two Kings : two characters in a farce, b;
some supposed to be intended for Charles II and James
Duke of York, afterwards James I [Duke of Bucking
ham, The Rehearsal].
Breton, Captain : the lover of Clara [Mrs. CeutUrre, Th«
Wonder].
Briana : the lady who at her castle gate levied a toll ot
' the locks of every lady and the beard of every knight
that passed ' [Spenser, Fairy Quefne:].
Brick, Mr. Jefferson : the war correspondent of the Ne»
Mart
York KowdV Journal [Dickens, Martin
Bridgemore, Lucinda : an ill-tempered girl engaged to
Lord Abbervjlle, but her temper so alarmed him that
he forsook her.
— — Mr. and Mrs. : a rulgar and dishonest merchant,
and hia wife, who with as much vulgarity is more pre
tentious and therefore more offensive [Cumberland,
Lovtr],
BRI 46 BRI
Eridgenorth, Alice : the daughter of Ralph and the heroine
of the story. She marries Julian Peveril.
Major Hulph : a Roundhead, the neighbour and
friend of Julian Peveril, a Cavalier [Scott, Peveril of
the Peak].
Bridget.Miss: the mother of Tom Jones [Fielding, Tom Jones}.
Mother : the aunt of Catherine Seyton, and the
Abbesa of St. Catherine [Scott, The Abbot].
Bridgeward, Peter : the warder of the bridge at Kennaqu-
hair, and also of that near St. Mary's Convent [Scott,
Abbot and Monastery}.
Brierly, Bob : a Ticket-of-Leave man [Tom Taylor, Ticket-
ol-I^ave Man].
Brigadore : Sir Guyon's charger [Spenser, The Faery
(jueene].
Briggs : surnamed ' Stonev ', because his brains were pet
rified by too much learning [Dickens,*/)omft<?jy and Son],
Matilda : the companion of Miss Crawley and
Mrs. Rawdon Crawley [Thackeray, Vanity Fair].
Brigida, Monna : a relative of Romola's [George Kliot,
Itomola].
Brilliant, Sir Philip : a fop, but at the same time a good
aud brave soldier. He falls in love with Lady Anne
and marries her [Knowles, Old Maids].
Brisac, Charles : a son of the Justice and a learned man.
Eustace : a courtier ; the brother of Charles.
Justice : the brother of Miramont [J. Fletcher,
The Elder Brother}.
Brisk, Fastidious : ' a neat, spruce, affecting courtier, one
that wears clothes well and in fashion ' [Ben Jonsou,
Every Man Out of His Humour].
a suitor for the hand of Lady Froth. A good-
natured chatterbox who loved to be thought a wit
[Congreve, Double Dealer].
Briskia : the ' loyal subject ', a captain in the Muscovite
army, who assumed the name of Putskie fur purposes
of concealment [J. Fletcher, The Loyal Subject}.
Britain, Benjamin : called ' Little Britain', landlord of the
Nutmeg Grater Inn and married to Clemency >Tewcome
[Dickens, Battle of Life].
Britomart, or Britoaiartis : the personification of Chastity.
The daughter of King Ryence of Wales [Spenser,
Fairy Quecne].
Briton. Colonel : a Scot, who, seeing Donna Isabella
leap from a window, tliat she might escape from a
distasteful marriage, took her to a friend's house, and
in the end married her himself [Mrs. Centljvre, The
Wonder}.
BRI 47 BRO
Brittle, Barnaby : a character acted by Charles Macklin
at Cmeiit GtuiJen.
Mr*. : his wife. A character acted by >;r».
Bracegirdle and Mrs. Oldfield [Betterton, The Amorwt
Widow}.
Brittles : Mra. Maylie's servant [Dickens, Oliver Twist}.
BrockJehurst, Rev. Mr. : the clergyman at Lowood School
[Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre}.
Bronzely : a contemptible man whose ambition it was
to be thought ' a general seducer ' [Mrs. Inchbald,
Wives at they Were and Maids at they Are].
Bronzomarte : the charger belonging to Sir Launcolot
Greaves [Smollett, Adventures of Fir l.aunrdot Greaves\.
Brook, Master : the name assumed by Ford [Shakespeare,
Merry Wives of Windsor}.
Brooke, Celia : the sister of Dorothea Casaubon. She
marries Sir James Chettam [George Eliot, Middle-
march}.
Dorothea : first married to Mr. Onsaubon, a
dry-as-dust scholar, and afterwards to Will LadJslaw
the artist [George Eliot, MiMlfmarch}.
Brooker : the man who kidnapped Ualph Nickleby's son,
and placed him, under the name of ' Smike,' at Dothe-
boy-s Hall [Dickens, Xirholat IfiMeby}.
Browdie, John : a bluff and uoiay Yorkshirernan [Dickena,
Nicholas NiMeby}.
Brown : the artist of the party, who gets himself arrested
because he insists on sketching and the natives think
he is a spy taking plans of their fortifications [Kichard
Doyle, Adventures of Broivn, Jonts and 2(o>nn*on}.
Alice : daughter of below, known as Alice Marwood.
Aa a girl transported for burglary ; afterwards seduced
by Carkcr.
— — — Mrs. : the mother of Alice Marwood, by a former
connection ; a horrid, ugly old woman [Dickens,
Dombey and Sons}.
— — Jonathan : landlord of the Black Rear, Darlington,
the inn where Frank Osbaldistone and Rob Boy meet
[Scott, Rob Hoy}.
- Mrs. : an English ' type ' ; a combination of native
shn --.vdneas and ignorance [Sketchley, Mrt. Sroumj.
—— Tom : a typical English schoolboy, fonder of sports
than books ; honest, thoughtless, and good-natured
[Tom Hughes, Tom Brown' t Schooldays}.
Tom : the above grown up, and at the University
[Tom Hughes, Tom Broicn at Oxford}.
- Sally : the heroine of a humorous poem [Thomas
Hood, Faithless Sally Brown}.
BSD 48 CUD
Brown Vanbast, Captain : alias Daw«on, Dudley, and
Harry Bertram. Son of the Laird of Kliaugowau
[Scott, Guy Mann<sring].
Browne, General : the guest of Lord Woodville who saw
the vision in the ' tapestried chamber ' [Scott,
Tapestried Chamber].
Bro'.vnlow, Mr. : Oliver's friend and rescuer [Dickens,
Oliver Twist].
Brace, The : Kobert I of Scotland is the hero of Uiis Epic
[Barbour, The Bruce}.
Brain : he is one of those opposed to Hudibras. The
original was a butcher of the name of Talgol who
served at Naseby [Butler, Hudibrat}.
a rough, uncultured man who treats his wife like
a boor [Koote, Miij/or ol Garrait].
Brulgruddery, Dennis : landlord of the Red Cow, Muck-
slush Heath, ' an Irish gentleman bred and
born'.
Mrs. : the illtempered wife of Dennis [Colman the
Younger, Jolm Bull].
Br-mcheval: a knight who entered the lists against Sir
Satyrane [Spenser, The Faery Queene].
Brush : "the impudent valet of Lord Ogleby [Colman and
Garrick, CUindctline Marrinye}.
Brute : a mytliical king of England, whose mother died at
his birth.and who accidentally shot his father [Geollrey
of Monmouth, Chroniclet ; Drayton, PoiyoUiion ; and
Spenser, faery Qucene].
Lady : driven to revenge against her brutal hus
band, she indulges in a flirtation with a former lover,
Constant by name.
Sir John : a coarse, surly man, and a drunkard,
whose chief delight is to try and provoke his wife
[Vacbrugh, The Provoked Wife}.
Brutus : a patriot who is prevailed upon by Casaius, ' a
lean and hungry man ', to head the conspiracy against
Caesar [.Shakespeare, Juliut Caesar],
Bryan and Pere«a« : th^ characters in a ballad which is
founded on an incident which occurred on the Wast
Indian Island of St. Christopher.
Brydone, Elspeth : widow of Simon Glendinning [Scott,
Monastery].
Bucket : the detective who discovered the murderer of
Mr. Tulkinghorn [Dickens, Bleak Houte}.
Bucklaw : tee Hayston.
Badger, Mrs. : a rich little old widow, with whom Mr.
Tupman dances at the Charity Ball at Rochester
[Dickens, Pickwick Papart].
BUF «9 BUN
Buffone, Carlo : a jester, by aome supposed to be intended
for Marston, by others for Dekker [Ben Jouson,
Every -««/» Out o! Bit Humour].
Bolbo, Prince : one of the heroes of a ' fireside pantomime '
[Thackeray, JCote and the Ring].
Bull's-Eye : Bill Sikes's dog [Dickens, Oliver Twin}.
Bullamy : porter of the ' Auglo-Bengalee Disinterested
Loan and Life Insurance Company ' [Dickens, Martin
ChuzzlewU}.
Bollcalf, Peter : he was pricked for a recruit, but induced
Bardolph to help him to get oft serving [Shakespeare,
Henry IV, pt. ii.].
Bullsegg, Mr. : Laird of Killancureit, anJ a friend of the
Baron of Bradwardine [Scott, Waverley].
Bolmer, Mrs. Anne: the mother of Valentine, and the
bigamous wife of the Earl of Etherington.
Valentine : titular Earl of Etheririgton, and married
to Clara Mowbray [Scott, St. Konan't WeU].
Bumble, Mr. : the beadle at the workhouse where Oliver
was born [Dickeas, Oliver Twist}.
Bumper, Sir Harry : the friend of Charles Surface [Sheridan,
School lor Scandal].
Bumpo, Natty : the real name of Hawkeye, as the Indians
called the Deerslayer, who is also known as The I'uth-
finiler, The Last of the Mohicant, and the 2-vmeer
[Cooper, The Dterslayer].
Buace, Mr. : the leading Bedesman of Hiram's Hospital,
and devoted friend and supporter of Mr. Harding
[Anthony Trollope, The Warden].
Bunch, Barnaby : a mender of old clothes [Webster, Tke
Weakest yot-th to the Wall}.
Mother : a derisive name applied by Tucca to
Mistress Miniver, an all wile [Dekker, Satiro-Mostix;
used as a fancy author's name for jest-books, 1004
and 1760, and in Mother Sunch'$ fairy
Tale*}.
Buncle, John : married and survived seven wives ; ' a
prodigious hand at matrimony, divinity, a song, and a
peck ' [Amory, Lite of John Buncle, Eiq.}.
Bundle : the father of Wilhelmina and the friend of Tom
Tug.
Mr$. : the nagging wife of Bundle, of whom he
stands in great awe [C. Dibdin, The Waterman].
Sungay : a bookseller, and the publisher of the PoB
Mall Gazette, which Captain Shannon edits [Thackeray,
Pendennit].
Bungey, Friar : is credited with having ' raised mists and
vapours ' at the battle of Barnet, which befriended
the cause of Edward IV [Lytton, Latt o/ the Huron*. \
W.W.F. K
BUN 59 BUS
Bungey, Friar : a conjuror and one of the heroes [Greene,
Friir Bacon and frier Bungay],
Bnnsby, Cap. Jack : owner of the ' Cautious Clara ', and
aecruling to Captain Cuttle, a very mine of wisdom
[Dickens, Domiey and Son].
Bunthorne : a would-be aesthetic youth who affects
artistic airs, graces, and clothes : really commonplace
in the extreme [Gilbert, Patience].
Bunting : the hero, who was so named because of hia
dress [R. Browning, Pied Piper of Eamdin].
Buenaventura, Father : really Charlea Edward the Pre
tender [Scott, Kriymiittlet].
Bur, John : the devoted servant of Job Thornbeny, the
bra/ier of Penzance [Colman the Younger, John
hull}.
Enrbcn : the betrothed of Fordelis [France] who has been
enticed away from him by Grantorto [rebellion}.
Burbon recovers her in the end [Spenser, Faery Queeni ].
Burcheil, Mr. : really Sir William Thonihill, the true friend
of the I'rimrose family. He marries Sophia [Gold
smith, Vicar of Waktftdd].
Bnrd Helen : the heroine of a popular old Scottish ballad.
Burieigh, Lord : a Parliamentary leader [Scott, Legend
(,) Mrmtrose].
Barley, John : ' never sober, never solvent, but always
genial and witty ' — a poor ne'er-do-well [Lytton, Afy
A'ovel].
Burlong : a giant, whose legs were cut off by Sir Tryamour
\K-minre of Sir Tnjmnour\.
Burning Pestle, Knight o! the : the hero of a comedy written
to ridicule the old romances of chivalry [Beaumont,
Kni:hl of the Burnimj I'l-tltl}.
Burns, Helen : intended for the authoress's little sister,
j'aria j;ronti: [Charlotte Bronti:, Jane Eyre].
Eurris : the favourite of the Great-Duke of Huscovia [J.
Fletcher, Loyal Subjtci}.
Burton, James : an honest blacksmith of Chelsea.
Scmud : ' more fiendish than the snake, more
savage than the shark ' — a typical convict [Charles
Kingsley, UUlt/art and Burton*}.
Busirane : an enchanter who bound Amoret to a brazen
pillar, she being rescued by liritomart [Spenser,
Foery Qucenc].
Bnsiris : the hero of the tragedy [Young, Busiris, King of
L(rypt\.
Bussy d'Ambois : the hero of the tragedy [Chapman,
(fAmuoit],
BUT 51 CA1
Butlsr, Reuben : a Presbyterian minister who marries
Jennie Deans.
— . Stephen : grandfather of Keuben, and generally
known as ' Bible Butler ' [Scott, Heart of MidloUiinn]
Buttercup, John : a milkman [Brough, A Phenomenon in
a Smock Frock].
Buzfoz, Serjeant : the advocate enployed by Mrs. Bardell
in her suit against Mr. Pickwick [Dickens, Pickwick
Paperi.]
Buzzard, Mr. Justice : an ignorant old magistrate, always
open to a bribe [Fielding, Amelia].
Byron, Miss Harriet : an accomplished beauty, as good as
she is beautiful, who marries the hero [IlicharJson,
Sir Charlet Grandison].
Cacafogo : a wealthy usurer who thinks that everything
may be had for money [J. Fleuher, Hide a Wife and
have a Wife].
Cacurgus : the fool or jester of Misogonus [Rychardes,
Misogomu].
** Caddy," see Jellyby, Caroline.
Cadsnus : Deau Swiit LSwift, C^Jcmu and Vanessa].
Cadvval : the name by which Cymbeline's son, Arviragus
was known during his life in the wood [Shakespeare,
d/mbdine],
Cadwalladar, The Rev. Mr. : the provokingly good-tempered
Hector of Middlemarch who ' even spoke well of his
Bishop '.
Sirs. : the wife of the Rector of Middlemarch
[George Eliot, Middlemnrrh].
——— intended for a Mr. Aprice, one of the author'a
friends, whom he ridiculed [3. Foote, The Author).
a misanthrope [Smollett, Peregrine Pickle],
Cadwallon : Prince Gwenwyn's favourite bard, w!io, under
the name of .Renault Vidal, entered the service of Sir
Hugo de Lacy [Scott, Jhirothcd].
the son of Cyuetha, the blind man [Southey,
Madoc].
Caelestina : the bride of Sir Walter Terill [Dekker, Saiiro-
mastix],
Caesar, Don : an old man who courts a trirl of sixteen in
order to force his own daughter, Olivia, to marry
[Mrs. Cowley, A Hold Stroke /or a Jlus'i-md].
Cain : the hero of the drama [Byron, Cain : a .Ifi/xtm/].
is also the subject of a poem [6. T. Coleridge,
Wanderings of Cain].
Caius, Dr. : a French doctor [Shakespeare, Herri/ Wivet
of Windsor].
CA1 52 GAL
Cains Marins : the subject of a play [Otway, ffittoiy
and Fall of aiut Marius}.
Calantha : beloved by Ithocles, who la murdered before
their marriage can take place. She dies of a brokea
heart [Ford, Broken Heart}.
Calanthe : the affianced wife of Pythias the Syracusan
[John Banim, Damon and Pythias].
Calderon : the hero of an historical romance [Lytton,
Calderon the Courlirr].
Caleb : ic tended for Lord Grey of Wark [Dryden, Absalom
and Achitophd].
Caled : in command of the Arabs at the siege of Damascus
[John Hughes, Siege of Damascus].
Calepine, Sir : rescued a child from the embrace of a bear
and handed it to Matil'le, the wife of Sir Bruin, to
rear [Spenser, Faery Qucene].
Calianax : the father of Aspatia [Beaumont and Fletcher,
Maift Tragedy}.
Caliban : a mis-shapen, bnitish creature whom Prospero
makes his servant [Shakespeare, Tempest].
Caliborn : the same as ExcalVmr q.v.
Cahdore, Sir : the personification of courtesy and hero of
the sixth book [Spenser, Faery Qiifenc].
Call's, The Princess : sister of Astorax, King of Paphoa, in
love with Polydore and beloved by Siphax [J. Fletcher,
Mad Lover].
Calista : daughter of Sciolto, who though betrothed to
Altamont had a guilty intrigue with Lothario.
Lothario fell in a duel and Calista stabbed herself
[Kowe, Fair Penitent].
the faithful wife of Oleander [Fletcher and Mas-
singer, Lover's Progress].
• one of the chief characters in the play [Massinger,
The Guardian}.
attendant on the Queen [Scott, Talisman}.
Calistus : in love with Melibea [Anon., Calisiut : a Magical
Comedy]
Calli poiis : a very beautiful woman [Peele, Battle of Alcazar].
Calmar : son of the Lord of Lara, in Connaught. Brave
and impetuous he presses Cathullin to push forward,
and his haste leads to defeat [Ossian, Fingal].
CalUioa : one of the sons of Kathmor, the chief of Clutha
[Ossian, Calthon and Colmal].
Calverley : a gamester, who, cruel to wife and children, is
ruined by his vicious life [at one time attrib. Shakes
peare, Yorkshire Tragedy].
Calvo, Baldajsarre : a leading character in the novel [George
Eliot, Romola}.
CAL S3 CAN
Calypso : the heroine of a musical opera [John Hughes,
Calypso and Telemachus].
Camaralzaman : a prince who fell in love with Badoura
the moment he beheld her [Arabian Ifighlt].
Camballo : second son of Cambuacan [Chaucer, Canterbury
Tales : The Squire" t Tale}.
Cambina : the daughter of Agape [Spenser, Faery Queene\.
Cambuscan : a king of Tartary [Chaucer, Canterbury
Talet : The Squire' t Tale}.
Carnbyses, King : the hero of an allegorical play [Preston,
Lamentable Tragedy of King Cambysrs].
Cameron, General : the ' friend and patron ' of Henry
Douglas [Susan E. Kerrier, Marriage}.
Camilla : the lady with whom Philautus falls in love [Lyly,
Euphue.-\
' a light, airy, poor and imprudent, but gentle '
pirl [Fanny Burney, Camilla].
Camillo : commanded by Kin?. Leontes to poison Polixenes,
but instead, aided in his escape [Shakespeare, Wintcr't
Tale}.
husband of Vittoria Coromboua [Webster, White
Devil}.
- one of the characters in the play [Dryden, Assigna
tion}.
Camiola : in love with Bertoldo, with whom the Duchess
of Sienna was also in love. Camiola rinding herselr
jilted, exposed Bertoldo's duplicity and then retired
into a convent [Massinger, Maid of Honour}.
Campbell, Captain : known as ' Green Colin Campbell ', or
BareuHine [Scott, Highland Widow}.
General : ' Black Colin Campbell ' [Scott,
Rcdijaunlltt}.
Sir Duncan : of the Duke of Argyll's army, and
sent as ambassador to the Earl of Montrose [Scott,
Legend of Montrose}.
— — — Murdoch : the name assumed by the Duke of Argyll
when he visited Dalgetty and M'Eagh [Scott, Legend o/
Montrose}. •
Lady Mary and Lady Caroline : daughters of the
Duke of Argyll [Scott, Heart of Midlothian].
Camph, Lady : aa eccentric aristocrat who makes merciless
fun of General Ople and tries to cure him of his egoism.
She finally marries him [George Meredith, Case of
General Ople and Lady Camph].
Canace : a paragon among women : the heroine of the
Squire's Tale [Chaucer, Canterbury Tales].
Candour, Mr : a backbiter and scandal-monger [Sheridan,
School for Scandal].
CAN 54 CAR
Canton : Lord Ogleby'a valet [Colman and Garrick,
flundfftine Marriage}.
Cantrips, Jessie : the daughter of Nanty Ewart'e friend.
Mrt. : the friend of Nanty Kwart [Scott, Krd-
gauntlti}.
Caatwell, Dr. : a meek and saintly hypocrite who beiiaves
dishonourably to the wife of his closest friend [Bicker-
staff, H-iipocrilf}.
Capochi, Cavalieri : the wicked brother of Lauretta [Short-
house, John Inylesant}.
Capella, Bianca : the wife of Cosmo de Medici [Lady Lytton,
Hianea Caprlta],
Caponsacche, Giuseppe : the noble young priest who be
friended Pompiiia and was accused of criminal rela
tions with her [R. Browning, King and the Hook].
Capulet : father of Juliet and head of the family at enmity
with the Montagues.
- Lady : mother of Juliet and wife of above [Shake
speare, Jiomeo and Julitt].
Carabas : ' servile, and pompous, and indefatigable, and
loquacious', said to be intended for Lord Lyndhurst
[Beaconsfield, Vivian Grey].
Caractacus : the subject of the drama [Mason, Caractaeut],
Caradoc : a Knight of the Round Table, wedded to the
one perfectly faithful wife among all the Queen's
ladies [Arthurian Cycle}.
Carathis : the mother of Vathek carried by an afrit to the
abyss of Eblis on account of her wicked life [Beckford,
Vathek}.
Careless : ' A fellow that's wise enough to be but half In
love, and makes his whole life a studied idleness '
[abber, Double Gallant].
- one of Charles Surface's boon companions [Sheridan,
School for Scandal].
- Colonel : a suitor for the hand of Ruth Thorough-
good [K'night, The JJonest Thieves ; altered from the
same character in a play by Howard, The Committet}.
- Ned : the lover of Lady Pliant [Congreve, Doulle
Dealer}.
Cargiil, The Rev. Josiah : tutor of Augustus Bidmore and
suitor for the hand of Augusta Bidmore [Scott, St.
Konan't W(U}.
Carino : the father of Zenocia [Beaumont and Fletcher,
Ouftom nf (he Country}.
Carker, Harriet : a gentle and beautiful girl, the sister of
John and James Crxrker ; she marries Mr. Morfin.
- Jam fit ; Mr. I>ombey's business manager, who
elopes with Mrs. Dotnbey. He U killed on a railway line.
CAR E3 CAS
Corker, John : the elder brother of James, who having
robbed the firm and been forgiven makes restitution
by years of faithful service [Dickens, Donibey and
Son].
Carleton, Captain : an officer in the guards [Scott, Peveril
of the Peak}.
Carlos : the son of Don Antonio, and a bookworm, who
developes Into a man of fine character through the
influence of hi3 love for Angelina [Gibber, Love Makes
a Man].
an unmitigated villain, a murderer and a thief,
whose villainies find him out at last [Stirling, Orphan
of the Frozen Sea].
Don : in love with Leonora, but he stands aside
for hi.s friend, Don Alonzo, who in return, in a fit of
jealousy, causes him to be put to death [Young, The
Revenge],
• Don : the faithless husband of Donna Victoria,
who in the end saves him from utter ruin [ilrs. Cowley,
A Hold Stroke for a Husband],
Caro : the personification of the ' natural man ', ' a hag of
loathsome shape ' [Phineas Fletcher, Purple Island}.
Caroline : the subject of the poem, the second part of
which is addressed to the Evening Star [Campbell,
Caroline}.
• Gann : tee Grann, Caroline.
Carstone, Richard: a ward in chancery — a nice fellow, but
a rolling stone, who marries his cousin, Ada Clare
[Uickeus, Bleak Uoute].
Carril : son of Kinfena, the bard of Cuthullin [Ossian,
Fingal}.
Carton, Sydney : the friend and ' double ' of Charles Darnay,
for whom he gave his life upon the guillotine [Dickens,
Tale of Two CUift}.
Carvel, Haas : the hero of a seventeenth century story
[Prior, Adventure* of Ilans Carvel}.
Casabianca : a young hero who gave his life in unswerving
obedience to the call of duty [Felicia D. Hemans.
Casablanca].
Casaubon, The Rev. Edward : an elderly pedant who marries
Dorothea Brooke and makes her miserable by his in
difference [George Eliot, Middlemarch}.
Casca : one of the conspirators against Julius Caesar
[Shakespeare, Jidiut Caesar}.
Caichcasch : a hideous monstrosity who was called upon
to determine which was the more beautiful, Prince
Camaralzaman or Princess Badoura {Arabian
Night,}.
CAS S3 CAT
Casiine-e : a Polish emigrant [Canning, The Rovers; or
The Double Arrangement}.
Caspar : the Baron of Arnheim's Master of the Horse
[Scott, Anne ol Gciersttrin).
Casby, Christopher : the landlord of Bleeding Heart Yard,
who grinds ^own his tenants cruelly [Dickens, Little
Darrit].
Cass, Godfrey : the father of Eppie, and married to Nancy
Lammeter [George Eliot, Silas Mamer],
Cassandra : a prophetess, the daughter of Priam [Shake
speare, Troilus and Vrettida],
Cassel, Count : an empty-headed nincompoop, suitor for
the hand of Amelia Wildenhaim [Mra. Inchbald,
Lorer't Vow$].
Cassitane : the General of Candy [Beaumont and Fletcher,
Laws of Candy]. »
Cassim : the brother of All Baba. He forgot the magic
words, ' Open Sesame ', and so got shut into the
robber's cave, where they found him and cut him to
pieces with their sabres [Arabian Rights}.
Cftssio. Michael : Othello's lieutenant, ' amiably and nobly
disposed, but easily seduced ' [Shakespeare, Othello].
Cassius : the discontented spirit that egged the noble
Brutus on to plot against Julius Caesar [Shakespeare,
Julius Caesar].
Castalio : twin-brother to Polydore, and, like him, in love
•with Monimia. Polydore's treachery results in the
death of all three [Otway, The Orphin].
Castara : Lucy Herbert, who became the wife of the
author of a collection of poems published under that
title [Habington, Castara].
Castle wood, Beatrix : the vain beauty who nearly wrecks
n—iry Esmond's life and makes a failure of her
own.
Colonel Francis Esmond, Lord: the father of
Beatrix and first husband of Lady Rachel. A
drunkard who neglects lu's wife, gambles away his sub-
glance, and is killed in a dual.
• Lady Rachel : the mother of Beatrix, ' very sweet
and pure ', who marries Henry Esmond as her second
husband and goes out to Virginia with him [Thackeray,
Esmond].
Catharick, Anne : the heroine [Collins, Woman in White].
Catherine : the history of Catherine Hayes, who was burned
at Tyburn for the murder of her husband, formed the
basis of this tale, which was written as a protest
against the false sympathy sometimes lavished upon
the vicious [Thackeray, Catherine : A Story].
CAT 57 OE«
Catherine, The Countess : she falls in love with a serf called
Huon, and marries him, and he afterwards so dis
tinguishes himself as to be created a prince [Knowlea,
Love}.
Catherow, Phyllis : cousin of Mable Lovejoy and betrothed
to Mabel's brother, Gregory [Blackmore, Alice Lor
raine}.
Cathlin o! Clntha : the daughter of Cathmol [Ossb.n,
Cathlin of Clutha].
Cathulla : King of Iniatore, and brother of Comala [Ossian,
Carrick- Ttiura}.
Catius : intended for Charles Dartineuf [Pope, Moral
Essays, Epistle i].
Cato : the hero of the tragedy, the prologue of which waa
written by Pope, the epilogue by Garth [Addison,
Colo}.
Caudle, Mrs. Margaret : the wife who lectures her long-
suffering but erring husband, nightly, after they have
gone to bed [Jerrold, Mrs. Caudle't Curtain Lecture*}.
Cauline, Sir : the knight whose duty it was to serve the
king of Ireland with wine. He won the heart of the
king's daughter, Chriatabelle [Percy, Kdiqu.es : Sir
Cauline].
Caustic, Colonel : a fine gentleman of ' the good old times
who constantly mourned the degeneracy of the present
[Macken7ie, in The Lounger}.
Cayall : ' King Arthur's hound of deepest mouth ' [Alfred
Tennyson, Idylls of the King : £ni:l}.
Cave, Mary : beloved by Matthewson llelston, and Hiram
Yorke. She married Helstone [Charlotte Bronte,
Shirley}.
Cawdor, Thane of : a Scottish gentleman executed by
order of Duncan, and to whose dignities Macbeth
succeeds [Shakespeare, Ifaclcth}.
Caxon, Jacob and Jenny : a humorous old barber, and his
daughter, a milliner [Scott, Antiquary}.
Carton, Mr. : a scholar and a gentleman of retiring habit*
and unpractical mind.
— — — Pisistratus : his son and the hero of the story
[Lytton, Caxtons}.
Cayenne, Mr. : a Virginian loyalist who resigns wealth and
ease for the sake of principles, and leaving Virginia
settles at Dalmailing [Gait, Annals of the Parish}.
Cecil : the hero of a novel which deals with life in London
clubs [Mrs. Gore, Cecil ; or, The Adventure* of a Cox
comb}.
Cecilia : an heiress beloved by a Mr. Delville [Fanny Buruey
C'tcUia}.
DEC 53 CHA
Cecilia Vaughan : tee Vaughan, Cecilia.
Cscropia : probably intended for Catherine de Medici
[Sidney, Arcadia}.
Cedrio : thane of Rotherwood, surnamed ' the Saron ',
who disinherits his only sou for following Richard I
to the Holy Land [Scott, Ivarihoe].
Celadon : a witty but inconstant man who marries Flori-
mel [Dryden, Secret Love; or, The Maiden Queen],
the lover of Amelia : they were both struck dead
by lightning [James Thomson, The Sentont].
Celandine : a shepherd, in love with Marina, a shepherdess
[Browne, Britannia1* Pastorals].
Celia : an honest, affectionate girl courted by Antigonus
and his son Demetrius [Beaumont and Fletcher,
Humorout Lieutenant].
married to Corvino [Ben Jonsori, Volpone].
daughter of the usurping Duke Frederick and the
devoted friend and cousin of Rosalind [Shakespeare, A*
You Like It].
a girl of sixteen, the heroine [Whitehead, School for
Lovert].
Brooke : tee Brooke, Celia.
Dame : the mother of Faith, Hope, and Charity
[Spenser, Fairy Querne].
Celinda : a victim to the vices of Count Fathom [Smollett,
Count Fathom].
Cellide : courted by a father and so», Valentine and
Francisco. The son, Francisco, is the successful
suitor [J. Fletcher, Montieur Thomat].
Cenci, Beatrice : she slew her father in horror at his mis
deeds and was hanged [Shelley, The Cenci].
Cennini : a jeweller [George Eliot, Romola].
Cerdon : one of the leaders of the rabble : Intended for
Hewson, a preaching cobbler, a colonel in the Rump
army [Butler, Hudilra*}.
Cerimon : a noble Ephesian who restored Thaisa to life
[Shakespeare, Peridet, Prince of Tyre].
Chabot, Philippe de : Admiral of France, wrongfully
accused of dishonesty. Though his innocence is
established he dies from distress at the disgrace
[Chapman and Shirley, Tragedy of Philippe de Chabot].
Chadband, The Rev. Mr. : a canting, hypocritical ranter
[Dickens, Bleak House].
Ohadwick. Mr. : the Bishop of Barchester's steward, who
farmed the property connected with Hiram's Hospital
[A. Trollope, The Warden}.
Chaffiagton, Mr. Percy, H.P. : a stock-broker [J M.Morton,
// 2 had a Thousand a Year}.
CHA 59 CHA
Cnainmail : the man who marries Susannah Touchandgo :
he is a neighbour of Squire Crotchet's, who endeavours
to live in a mediaeval fashion, and in his own
opinion succeeds admirably in attaining the object of
his ambition [Peacock, Crotchet Castle}.
Chalkstone, Lord : a character rendered famous by the
author's own acting of it [Garriclc, Lethe}.
Chamberlain, Matthew : a tapster and the successor of
Roger Kaine [Scott, Peveril of the Peak].
Chamont : the brother of Monimia and betrothed to Serina
[Otway, The Orphan].
Chaaipernel : the husband of Lamira, an old and lame
wan [Beaumont and Fletcher, Little French Law
yer].
Champneys, Miss : sister of Sir Geoffry, willing to marry
Mr. Middlewick, the butterman, for his money.
1 .Sir Geoffry : an old country gentleman, a staunch
believer in 'blue blood'.
Talbot : his son, brainless but good-natured, who
insists on marrying Mary Melrose, a penniless girl
[H. J. Byron, Our Boys].
Chapman, Captain Stephen : son of Sir Remnant Chapman
and suitor for the hand of Alice Lorraine. A man of
low tastes and meagre intelligence.
Sir Remnant : a fox-hunting squire, the friend and
neighbour of Sir Eoland Lorraine [Blackmore, Alice
Lorraine}.
Chanson, Laura : so contrives that Paul Ferroll marries
her instead of the girl he really loves — Elinor Ladylift.
When he discovers the truth he murders Laura [Mrs.
Archer Clive, Paul Ferroll].
Charalois : son of the Marshal of Burgundy, who, upon
his father's corpse being seized by his creditors, re
deemed it by being imprisoned himself in its place
[Massinger, Fatal Uoury].
Charino : the father of Angelina, a hasty-tempered, obsti
nate old man [Cibber, Lore Makes a -Van].
Charles : a bookworm, who falls in love at first sight with
Angelina [J. Fletcher, Elder Brother}.
Emmanuel : the son of Victor Amadeus, King of
Sardinia [R. Browning, King Victor and King Charlet].
Charley : see Necket, Charlotte.
Charlotte : the betrothed of Wilmot, who remains faithful
to his memory after he is thought to have perished
at sea [Lillo, Fatal CuriotUy].
daughter of Sir Gilbert Wrangle, In love with
Frankly [Cibber, The Refusal ; or, The Ladiet Philo*
lophy}.
OKA 63 CHE
Charlotte : the rough, low, servant of 8owerb«rry [Dickens,
Oliver Tn-isl}.
the daughter of General Baynes ; she married
Philip Firmin, the hero [Thackeray, Adveniura of
Philip].
—— a girl who apes deaf and dumbness to escape a
distasteful marriage [Fielding, Mock Doctor}.
the daughter of Sir Jolin Laml>ert, in love with
Parnley, whom she is fond of teazing [Bickerstafl,
Hypocrite].
— — the Countess Wintersen's servant [B. Thomson,
Stranger],
- Lady : a servant who assumes the'airg and graces'
of her mistress [Townley, High Life Below Stairt].
Charmian : one of Cleopatra's attendants [Shakespeare,
Antony and Cleopatra]. •
Charyllis : the name given by the poet to Anne Spenser tn
his pitstoral [Spenser, Colin Clout's Come Some Again].
Chat, Dame : one of the characters in the comedy [attrib.
Still, Gammer Gvrton'g Jfeeule}.
Chaunus : the personification of Arrogance [Phineaa
Fletcher, Purple Island}.
Cheat ly : a degraded inhabitant of the debtor's haunt,
known as ' Alsatia,' who fleeces rich young men
[Thomas Shad well, Squire of Alsulia].
Chederazade : the mother of Hemjunah and wife of
Zeberiezer, Sultan of Cassimir [EMley, Tales of the Genii],
Cheerly, Mrs. : a youug widow, rich and beautiful, who
after s jndry misfortunes becomes the wife of Frank
Hearall [Cherry, Soldi,r'i Daughter}.
Cheerybls Brothers, The (Charles and Edwin) : twin brothers,
who rose to wealth by sheer industry and integrity,
and were ever ready to stretch forth a helping hand
to those in need.
Frank : nephew to the ' Brothers '. He became
the husband of Kate Nickleby [Dickens, Kicholat
ffickleby].
Cherry : daughter of Boniface, landlord of the Lichfidd
Inn [Farquhar, Beaux' Stratagem}.
Cherub, The : tee Wilfer, Reginald.
Cherubim, Don : a bachelor who finds himself in all sorts
of difficult and unexpected situations [Lesage, Bache
lor of Salamant*].
Chester, Edward : the son of Sir John Chester and the lover
of Emma Haredale.
Mr. (later, Sir John) : a cold-hearted worldly fop,
who falls in a dual with Geoflrey Haredale [Dickens,
Barnaby Rudge}.
CHE 61 CHI
Chesterfield, Charles : a young man of literary geniui; the
hero [Mrs. Trollope, Charlet Chesterfield}.
Chesterton, Paul : nephew of Mr. Percy Chamngton, M.P.
[J. M. Morton, If 1 had a Thoutand a Year].
Chettam, Sir James : an easy-going, amiable baronet who
marries Celia Brooke, Dorothea's sister [George Eliot,
Middlemarfh}.
Chererel, Sir Christopher, and Lady : two of the leading
characters in the story [George Eliot, Scenes from
Clerical Life: Mr. Oilftl't Love-Story}.
Cheveril, Hans : impulsive and generous, a ward of Mor
dent's. He falls in love with Joanna, a ' deserted
daughter', and marrips her [Holcroft, The Deterted
Daughter, later changed to The Steicard}.
Cheyne, Harvey : a spoilt and disagreeable American boy,
who finds his salvation in an unintended cruise on
the Grand Banks [Kipling, Captain Courage-
out}.
Chick, Louisa : sister of Mr. Dombey, an unsympathetic,
irritable woman, who counsels Mrs. Dombey, on her
death bed, to ' make an effort '.
•- Mr. : Mr. Dombey's brother-in-law and the rather
hen-pecked husband of Louisa Cluck [Dickens, Dombey
and Son}.
Chicken. The Game : tee Game Chicken, The.
Chickenstalker, Mr : a friendly ' body ' who keeps a genera 1
shop [Dickens, The Chimet}.
Ckickweed, Conker : also known by the name of ' Nosey'.
A thief who for a long time avoided detection by helping
the police to chase innocent men [Dickens, Oliver
Tv-ist].
Chifflnch. Kate : the mistress of Thomas.
Matter Thomat : employed by Charles II for
private purposes ; he tries to carry off Alice Bridge-
north for the King [3cott, Peveril of the Peak}.
Chignon : a French valet [Burgoyne, The Heirett}.
Chilaz : lieutenant to General Memnon [J. Fletcher, Mad
Lover}.
Child of Elle, The : he loved Emmeline, from whom he
was divided by a family feud. In the end love wa«
triumphant [Percy, Rdiquct : ChUdof Elle}.
——— of Nature, The : the child is Amantis, the daughter
of Alb-rto. who was unjustly exiled. Amantis falls In
love with and marries her guardian, Almanaa [Mrs.
Inchl> id. Child of Mature].
Childe, n.i Id : tee Harold Childe.
Rowland: tee Rowland Child*.
Watcri : tte Waters CJulde.
CHI 62 CHO
Chillingly, Kenelm : the hero of the best of all this author's
stories, it being free from much of his peculiarities
of style and distinguished by simplicity of thought and
diction [Lytton, Kenelm Chillingly}.
Chillingworth, Rc?er : the betrayed and revengeful
husband of Hester Prynne [Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Scarl^ Letter].
Chilli p, Mr. : the doctor who attended Mrs. Copperfleld
at the birth of her son [Dickens, David Copper-
field].
Chindasuintho : the King of Spain, father of Theodofred,
and grandfather of Roderick [Southey, Roderick].
Chingachcook : an Indian chief called by the i
Grot Serpent. He is prominent in foor of the author's
books [Cooper, Last o/ the JUohicant ; Pathfinder ;
Deerslayer ; Pioneer].
Chinn, John : ' the slender little hookey-nosed boy ' who
advocates vaccination [Kipling, Tomo of Jiis Ancestors].
Chintz, Mary : maid to Hiss Bloomfield and engaged to
Jem Miller [Selby, Unfinished GK»tlrm,:n}.
Chitting, Tom : one of Fagin's apprentices, a ' half-witted
dupe ', who makes an ' unsuccessful thief ' [Dickens,
Oliver Twist}.
Chivery, John, Senior : a non-resident turnkey of th«
Marshalsea.
John, Junior : one of Little Dorrit's lovers ; a
very sentimental youth, who is very mournful when
he learns th.it Little Dorrit is to be married to another
[Dickens, Little Dorrit].
ChJoe : the pretentious wife of a very honest but common
place man [Ben Jonson, The Pottc.tltr}.
a shepherdess of unstable character [J. Fletcher,
Fai&jul Shephcrdets}.
the self-given nom-de-plume of a wounded lady
who lives at a resort of fashion. Her tragic end is
told with a fine touch [George Meredith, Tale o/
Cnlof.]
intended for Lady Suffolk, the Misstreas of
George II [Pope, Moral Etsays, Epistle ii.].
a shepherdess [Sidney, Arcadia}.
Choke : an American ; ' one of the most remarkable men
in the century' [Dickens, Martin Ciiuzzlxrit}.
Cholraonieley : the friend of Sir Geoffrey Pe.eril [Scott,
Pfi-cril of the Peak].
Cholmondela? : the Squire of Lord Guildford Dudley [Ains-
worth, Totcer of tendon].
Chop" wd. Pierre : a member of a gang of thieves, known as
' The Ugly Mug ' [Sterling, Courier oi Ljonsl
CHO 63 CHR
Chowne, Parson Stoyle : a bully and scamp, of whom the
whole country-side stand in awe, who kidnaps the
two grandchildren of Sir Philip Bampfylde [Black-
more, Maid of Sker],
Christabel : the heroine of an old romance [Sir Eglamoitr
of Artois}.
the heroine of a beautiful fragment [3. T. Coleridge,
Chriat'ibcl}.
Bab« : the subject of this elegy was one of the
author's own children [Massey, Babe Chrislabel\.
Christabelle : the daughter of a king of Ireland who loved
Sir Cauline, and so the king banished the knight, who
re-appeared at a tournament but was there slain, and
Christabelle died of grief [Percy, Rtli<pics : fir L'tud<nr\.
Christian : the leading character iu the allegory [Bunyan,
PiUjrim'i Pr<>
captain of the patrol In the town where Mathis,
whose daughter he marries, is Burgomaster [Ware,
Polish Jen-}.
Ann Charlotte de la Tremonille : ' Auntie Nan ',
a sweet old Lady that brings up Philip.
• Iron : the great Deemster, grandfather of Philip.
• Peter : younger son of Iron Cluistiaii, and a man ol
vicious habits.
Philip : the Deemster, son of Thomaa and Mona
Christian, betrayer of Catherine Cregeen and Peter
Quilliam.
liott : son of Peter Christian ; a dissipated, evil
liver.
Thomas Wilson : a man who ruins his career by
marrying beae;it!i him [Hall Caine, Tue M cowman].
II : the Kin,; of Norway, .Swi-iicn, ai.d J),
who was successfully attacked by C4ustavus Yasa
[Brooke, Ouslai-us Vata}.
Colonel WiUiam : brother of Edward, who was
arrested and shot.
Edward : a conspirator, who assumed the names
of Richard Gaulesse and Simon Cautcr.
Zarah (Fendla) : the daughter of Edward [Scott,
PeverU of tile Peak].
Fletcher : mate of The Bounty and leader of the
mutineers [Byron, The Island],
Christiana : Christian's wife, who, with Creatheart as
guide, sets out, with her children, for the Celestial
City [Buuyau, Pilgrim's Progress, pt. ii.].
Christie, John : a ship-chandler.
A.tty : wife of Juhn, very pretty, and carried ofl
by Lord Dalgarno [ricolt, fortunes o/
OHR 64 CLA
Christie of the Clint Hill : one of Julian Avenel's retainers
[Scott, Monastery],
Christine : an attendant of the Countcas Marie [Stirling,
Prisoner of Slate].
the heroine of a metrical tale founded on the story
of The Meeting of the Bounty [Milford, Chrittine].
Christopher : a head-waiter, who {fives an amusing account
or the trials of his class [Dickens, Somebody' » Luyyaye].
Chrononhotonthologos : a pompous character in a burlesque
[Carey, Ckrononhotonthologos].
Chucks : a boatswain on Captain Savage's ship [Captain
Man-rat, Peter Simple].
Chuffey, Mr. : Anthony Chuzzlewit's old servant [Dickens,
Martin Chuzdewil].
Chump, Mrs. : a very common Irish woman to whom the
Poles are compelled to be polite, as Mr. Pole has
charge of her large fortune, with whioh he is speculating
[George Meredith, Sandra Belloni].
Churchill, Ethel : the heroine of an historical novri [Letitia
E. Landon, Ethel ChwchiU].
Frank : the rather shallow-hearted admirer of Jaae
Fairfax [Jane Austen, Emma].
Mr. : ' Nature had made him a poet, but destiny
made him a schoolmaster ' [Longfellow, Kavanagh].
Chuzzlewit, Anthony : an avaricious old man, the father
of Jonas.
Qoerge : an elderly bachelor who apes youth.
Jonas : the son of Anthony ; a mean and brutal
villain, who tries to poison his own father and murders
Montague Tigg, makes his wife, Mercy Pecksniff,
miserable, and then commits suicide to escape hanging.
Martin, Junior : the hero, who having been
• schooled ' by many misfortunes develops a fine
character and marries Mary Graham.
Martin, Senior : the grandfather of the hero, whose
kindly nature has been embittered by the wickedness
of his family [Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit].
Cid, The : the national champion of the Spaniards against
the Moors. He occupies the same sort of position in
Spanish romance as King Arthur occupies in English
[Southey, Chronicle* of the Cid].
Circuit, Serjeant : one of the characters in a farce [Foote,
Lame Iwer}.
Cilley : the generic name for a dairymaid in English
literature. [For example Tusser, five hundred Pointt
of Qood Husbandry \.
Clara : the name gh en to the heroine in the English version
of Moliere's comedy [Otway, Ctieait of ticapin].
CLA 65 CLA
Clara, the daughter of Don Guzman of Seville. She
rties to a convent to escape the attentions of Don
Ferdinand, whom she really loves. In the end she
marries him [Sheridan, The Duenna].
Donna : betrothed to Octavio, who, having slain
Don Felix in a duel, was obliged to hide. She seeks for
and finds him, and they marry [Jephson, Two Strinyt
to Your Bow}.
Clare, Ada : a ward in Chancery and cousin of Richard
Carstone, whom she marries [Dickens, Bleak House],
Claribel : [Alfred Tennyson, Claribd : a Melody].
Sir : surnamed ' The Lewd,' one of the six knights
who contended for the hand of the false Florimel
[Spenser, Faery Queene].
Claridiana : marries the Knight of the Sun [Mirror of
Knighthood].
• the enchanted queen in a Spanish play by Mendoza,
translated into English [Fanshawe, Love lor Love"*
S,ike].
Claridoro : a character in Mendoza's play, translated from
the Spanish into English. He is the rival of Fehsbravo
[Fanshawe, Love for Love's Sake].
Clarinda : the heroine of the play, in love with Colonel
Manly [Mrs. Centlivre, Bean's Duel}.
niece of Sir Solomon Sadlife [Gibber, Double Gal
lant].
a good-natured and sprightly lady with whom Charles
Frankly is ,ln love [Hoadly, Suspicious //«*-
band}.
a niece of the hero ; she is in love with Longyil
[Thomas Shadwell, Tht Virtuoso}.
the confidential servant of Queen Radigund [Spenser,
FaP.ry Queene].
Clarissa : the sister of Beverley and engaged to G«org«
Bailment [Murphy, All in the Wrong].
a lackadaisical city lady, the wife of Gripe, a ti?ht-
flsted, mean old scrivener [Vanbrugh, Confederacy].
Harlow : see Harlow, Clarissa.
Clinde : the hero of the poem [Clough, Amours de Voyttye].
Melnotte : tee Melnotte.
C.audia : the daughter of Count Zaroora ; a Spanish girl,
for whom Hillary Lorraine entertains a passing paui a
[Blackmore, Aliee Lorraine].
Claudine : the old nurse of the deaf and dumb count, Julio,
who recognizes him under his fictitious name of Theo
dore [Holcroft, Deaf and Dumb].
Claudio : the brother of Isabella, and suitor for the hand
of Juliet [Shakespeare, Meantra for Aleamtrr].
W.W.F. F
CIA 63 CLE
Claudio, Lord : the betrothed of Hero and friend of Don
Pedro of Aragon [Shakespeare, -t/wA Ado About A'othina].
Claudius : employed by Appius in his efforts to obtain
possession of Virginia [Knowles, Virginiut\.
— — the usurping King of Denmark who, having poisoned
his brother, married the widow. His villainy is exposed
by Hamlet [Shakespeare, Homlrt}.
Claverhouse : the Marquis of Argyll, a kinsman of Ravens-
wood [Scott, Urine of Lammermoor],
Clavering, Harry : jilted by the girl he loves, he becomes
entraged to another, and then his first love becoming
widowed she turns to him again [Anthony Trollope,
The Clm'fringi].
Claypole. Noah : a miserable hypocrite, sneak, and spy
[Dickens, Oliver Tirittl.
Cleanthe : the sister of Siphax of Paphos [Beaumont and
Fletcher, Mad Lover}.
- the girl whom the hero, Ion, loves [Talfourd, Ion].
Cleanthes : the son of Leonides and husband of Hippolita
[Ma-winger, Middletoh, and Rowley, The Old Law}.
friend of Cleomenes and Captain of the Guard
[Dryden, Cleomenu}.
Cleaver, Fanny : a doll's dressmaker, known as ' Jenny
Wren,' with whom Lizzie Ilexham lodges.
Mr. : her good-natured but drunken father,
called ' Mr. Dolls ' [Dickens, Our Mutual friend}.
Clegs, Holdfast : a staunch Puritan, and a millwright
[Scott, Pcveril of the Peak].
Cleishbotham, Jedediah : a schoolmaster and parish clerk ;
thf imaginary e<iitor of Talet of My Landlord [Scott,
T«\<* of My Landlord}.
Clelia : a frb-olous, vain and resourceless girl [Crabbe, The
Bi trough}.
Cbmanthe : the heroine of the tragedy [Talfourd, Ion}.
Clement, Justice : a good sensible man, with a stense of
li'imnur [Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour].
Clementina, The Lady : entertains a hopeless love for ?ir
Charles Grandison [Richardson, Hittory of Sir Charlet
Orra^MM].
Clenham, Arthur : the reputed but really only the adopted
son of Mrs. Clenham. He marries Little Dorrit.
— — — Mrs. : a hard woman who suppresses a -will by
which Little Dorrit would have inherited a fortune
[Dickens, Little Dorrit].
Cleon : the personification of Glory [Spenser, Faery Queent].
. the governor of Tarsus who, with his wife, is burnt
to death by the citizens, who suppose him to be the
inurdererof Marina[3hakespeare,/>ert'cfe*,.Pr»nre ojTure}.
CLE C7 CLO
' Cleopatra ' : tee Skewton, The Hon. Mrs.
Cleopatra : Queen of Egypt [Shakespeare, Antony and
Cleopatra'].
Cleremont : the friend of Dinant [Beaumont and Fletcher,
Little French Lawyer].
Cleriker : head of the firm in which Herbert Pocket and
Pip were partners [Dickens, Qreai Expectation].
Cleriznond : sister of the giant Ferragus, niece of the Green
Knight and married to Valentine {Valentine and
Orion}.
Clerimont : Clarinda's lover and confidential friend of
Atall and Careless [Gibber, Double Gallant].
a friend of Sir Dauphine [Ben Jonaon, The Epicene;
or, The Silent Woman].
Clessamraor : son of Thaddu and brother of Morna. He
was married to Moina but she was carried off by
Keuda, a Briton, so he never saw her again [Ossiau,
Cirthon].
Cleveland. Duchess of : one of the mistresses of Charles II
[Scott, Pereril of the Peak].
Capt. Clement : son of Norna and in love with
Miuua Troil [Scott, 1'irate].
Clever : Hero Button's man-servant, who assumed the
guise of a Quaker to support his mistress in that
character [Knowles, Woman's Wit}.
Clifford, Mr. : the lover of Emily Gayrille, afterwards her
husband [Btirgoyne, The Ueiret*].
Paul : a highwayman whose character is redeemed
by love [Lytton, I'nul Clifford].
Rosamond : ' Fair Rosamond ' ; the mistress of
Henry II [Scott, Tnliiman and Woodttock).
•' Sir Thomas : the accepted lovor of the ' hunch
back's ' daughter, Julia Walter [Knowles, Uunch-
back\.
Clifton, Harry : a typical young English sailor, loving
ailventure and ' hair-breadth escapes ' [Barryiaore,
El H>/dfr, Chief of the GhmU Mountains].
Clincher, Bean : [Farquhar, Con?t-inl Coitpl,'].
Clinker, Humphry : the servant of Brambles, a methodis-
tical but good sort of man [Smollett, Humphry Clink' >•}.
Clippurse, Lawyer : the lawyer who draws up Sir Everard
Waverley's will [Scott, Waverlcy].
Clodio : the younger son of Don Antonio ; a vain snob
engaged to Angelina, who jilts him in favour of his
brother, a bookworm [Gibber, Love Maket a
Man].
Connt : a villain who torments Zenocia with hto
attenUuiis [J. Fletcher, Cuttom of the Country].
CLO 68 CLY
Clodpate, Justice : a rough, coarse country-bumpkin who
hates London. He is not devoid of public spirit
[Charles Shadwell, Epsom Wells].
Clod pole : a countryman who experiences many disasters
in a journey to London [Strutt, Bumpkin's Disaster].
Cloe : a coarse and wanton shepherdess, in love with
Thenot who rejects her [J. Fletcher, Faithful Shep
herdess].
Clon : the dumb porter at Cocheforet [Weyman, Under
the Red Robe}.
Clora : the friend of Prances and sister of Fabritio [Beau
mont and Fletcher. The Captain].
Clorinda : the shepherded for whose sake Thenot turns
a deaf ear to Cloe [J. P etcher, Faithful Shepherdess].
Gloria : beloved by Pn ce Prettyman [Duke of Bucking
ham, The Rehearsal}.
Cloten : the ' booby ' rejected by Imogen [Shakespeare,
Cymbcline].
Clondesley, William ol : a north-country freebooter and
archer [Percy, Reliyues : Adam BcU, etc.}.
Clout, Colin : the name by which Spenser alludes to him
self [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Colin : the shepherd whom Marian loved, but who
himself loved Cicely [Gay, Pastoral, 11.].
Lobbin : he loved Blowzelinda [Gay, Pastoral, 1.].
Clumsy, Sir Tunbelly : the father of Miss Hoyden ; a mean-
tempered Justice of the Peace [Sheridan, The Relapse ;
Trip to Scarborough].
Clnnch : husband to Old Madge ; he take* three strayed
travellers to his house [Peele, Old Wives' Tales].
Clappins, Mrs. Betsey : Mrs. Bardell's chief witness in her
suit against Mr. Pickwick [Dickens, Pickwick Papers].
Cluricaune : an Irish Elf of evil propensities [Jrish Fairy
Myths],
Clutterbuck, Capt Cuthbert : the supposed editor of some
of Sir W. Scott's novels.
Clym of the dough : a noted outlaw ; the companion of
Adam Bell and William of Cloudesley [Percy, Rdi-
quet : Adam Sell, etc.].
Clymedes : a character In a sort of morality play [History
of Sir Cyomon and Clamyaet}.
Clyomon, Sir : a character in what is a mixture of history
and a moral play. Sir dyomon Is In love with
Neronis, and Alexander the Great is introduced, and
also an enchanter named Bryan Sansfoy, who keeps
a dragon [History of Sir Clyomon and Clamydes].
Clytos : an officer in the army of Philip ol Macedon [Lee,
Alexander the Great}.
COA 69 COL
Coatel : daughter of Aculthua and wife of Llncoya [Southey,
Jfadoe].
Cob, Oliver : a friend and admirer of Captain Bobadi)
[Ben Jonson, Every Man in Hit Humour}.
Oobb, Tom : a member of the Quadrilateral Club [Dickens,
Barndby Rudge].
the ' boots ' in the Solly Tree Inn [Dickens. Hotly
Trte Inn].
Cocke : the prentice boy [attrib. to Still, (Jammer Gwton'i
Xeedle].
Cockle. Sir John : the miller of Mansfield, and keeper of
Sherwood Forest, who unwittingly arresta Henry
VIII, mistaking him for a poacher [The King and the
Miner of Mantfield].
Cockney, Hicholu : Prescilla Tomboy's guardian, a grocer
in the city.
— — — Walter : the grocer's son, who makes love to
Prescilla [The Romp, altered from Bickerstaffs Lovt
in the City].
Cockwood. Lady : under an assumption of religious de
votion she conceals a compromising intrigue [Etherage,
She Would if She Could].
Codlin, Tom : a travelling ' Punch and Judy ' showman
[Dickens, Old Curiotity Shop].
Coelebs : the hero of a novel [Hannah More, Codeot in
Search of a Wife].
Coelia : see Celia.
Coffin, Tom : a fine specimen of a sailor, ' heroic in action,
and of a noble spirit' [Cooper, The Pilot].
Colaz : Flattery personified [Phineas Fletcher, Purple
Island].
Coldbrand : a Danish giant slain by the Earl of Warwick
[Drayton, Polyolbion].
Coldstream, Sir Charles : a very blast hero, who sees nothing
to admire in the world [Charles Matthews, Uted Up].
Cole, Mrs. : this is intended for Mother Douglas, a woman
of bad character who lived by Co vent Garden [Foote,
The Minor].
Colein : the dragon which Sir Beria of Southampton slew
[Drayton, Polyoloion].
Colin Clout : tee Clout, Colin.
and Lucy : [Tickell, Colin and Lucy : a balladj.
and Phoebe : [John Byron, A Pattoral Poem}.
and Rosalinda : characters in the pastoral [Spenser,
Sliepherft Calendar].
Colkitto : a Highland chief hi Montrose's army. Also
known as ' Vioh Alister More ' and ' Alister M/Donnell '
[Scott, Legend o] Jfonlrote}.
COL 70 CON
Collcan, May : the heroine of an old Scottish ballad.
CclLns, Mr. : an intolerably vulgar and conceited toady
who, rejected by Lizzie Bennet, marries Charlotte
Lucas [Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice}.
Collet, Mary : one of the Little Gidding family [Shorthouse,
Join iHjlesant].
Colling wood : a man with such a desire to improve his
property that he planted acorns wherever he found a
vacant space on his estate [Thackeray, Vanity Foir\.
Colombo of RaTenstein : a duchess who refuses a prince
that she may marry an advocate [R. Browning,
Cdambe'i Birthday].
Colonna : a Neapolitan noble, much given to plain-speaking
[Shiel, Evadne ; or, The Statue].
Colvin, May : the heroine of an old Scottish ballad.
Comal : was the son of Albion and the lover of Galbina.
He slew his beloved in mistake,' rushed to battle in
despair, and was slain [Ossian, Fingal, ii.].
Comala : the daughter of Sarno, King of Inistore. She
fell in love with Fingal, but he fell in battle before the
marriage could take place [Ossian, Fingal].
Common, Dol : a friend of Subtle, the alchemist [Ben
Joiuion, The Alchemist].
Comnenus, Isaac : the hero of a story which Is founded
on history [Sir Henry Taylor, Isaac Comnenuf].
Comparing Pietro and Violante : the elderly couple who
had reared Pompilia as their own child, the man really
believing her to be so, and who, tempted by his social
position, induced the girl to marry Guido Franceschini
[R. Browning, The Ring and the Book].
Compejson : a forger who jilted Miss Haviaham, and was
drowned at Greenwich [Dickens, Great Expectation!}.
i : the god of revelry, and the son of Circe, who lured
the unwary to drink of his goblet [Milton, Comui, a
the Highland apprentice of Simon Glover, who
escaped death in the battle of the Clans which tools
place at Perth [Scott, Fair If aid of Perth].
Ooningsby : this character is supposed to be a portrait of
Lord Lytton. He is the hero of the tale [Beacons-
field, Coningtby].
- Arthur : the hero of the only novel by this author
[Sterling, Arthur Coningtby].
Conkey duckweed : tee Chickweed, Conkey.
Conlati : one of the sons of Morni. He was betrothed to
Cuthona, Rumaa' daughter, but she was kidnapped by
Toaoar of Ireland. Conlath and Toscar fought, and
both fell [Ossian, Conlath and Cuthona].
CON 71 CON
Connal : the son of Colgar and friend of CuiaiKiia [Os.-u.iu,
J-'inyal].
Conquest, Mrs. : a character in the comedy [Cibber, Love't
Last Slake}.
Conrad : the hero of the poem [Byron, Cortair].
a monk of ilarpurg, arid a Commissioner of the Pope
for the suppression of heresy [Charles Kingsley, Saint' »
Tragedy].
Conrade : the Marquis of Montserrat, murdered in his tent
by the Templar [Talisman].
a follower of Don John [Shakespeare, Much Ado
About Nothing}.
Constance : the heroine [Brome, The Northern Last].
daughter of Nonesuch, and In love with Loveby
[Drydeu, Wild Qallant].
the daughter of Sir W. Fondlove. She marries her
childhood's companion, Wildrake [Knowles, Love
Chase].
daughter of the Provost and married to a knight
of Fiauders [Knowles, Provost of Bruges].
the mother of Prince Arthur and widow of Geoffrey
Plantagenet [Shakespeare, King John].
— — — the subject of a narrative poem [William Sotheby,
Contlance de Cattile].
of Beverley : a Benedictine nun who fell in love
with Marmion, and who, for breaking her vows, was
walled up in the convent [Scott, Marmion].
Constant, Ned : a lover of Lady Brute, who renewed his
attentions after her marriage [Vanbrugh, Provoked
Wife].
Sir Bashful : unexpectedly wealthy through the
death of his elder brother ; he marries an excellent
woman but treata her with indifference, though loving
her, because lie tlu'nks it ' the thing ' [Murphy, Way in
Keep Him].
Susan : an old ballad quoted by Sir Toby Belch in
TwdjU SigiU.
Coastantia : the sister of Petruccio, Governor of Bolog-a
[J. Fletcher, The Chancel].
a girl befriended by Lady McSycophant, and in
love with her son [Macklin, Man of t,ie Worl,l\.
Constauza : she follows her father into exile, disguised as
a gipsy under the name of Pretioaa [.Vliddletou,
Spanish Gipsy}.
Contest, Lady : young, lively and beautiful ; the second
wife of Sir Adam.
Sir Adam : aa elderly man marriM, for his second
wife, to a young girl. After the marriage his lirst wit'e
COP t2 COR
reappears, saved from a shipwreck [Mrs. Inchbald,
ll'ntding bay}.
Cophetua : a mythical African King, who fell in lore with
and married a beggar-maid [Percy, RAvpte»\
Copley, Sir Thomas : one of the Karl of Leicester's train at
Woodstock [Scott, Kmilwvrth].
Copper. Captain : the real name of Michael Perez, a penni
less adventurer who gets ' hoist with his own petard '
[J. Fletcher, Rult a Wife and Have a Wife].
Copperfield, David : a posthumous child, who is mad*
miserable by his stepfather. After a chequered
existence he ends by marrying Agnes Wickfleld.
— — Dora : it* Spenlow.
Mrt. Clara : the mother of David, who for her
second husband marries Mr. Murd.'tone, who tries to
teach her ' firmness ' but breaks her heart instead
[Chas. Dickens, David Copperficld].'
Cora : the wife of Alonzo and friend of Rollo [Sheridan,
Pizam}.
intended for Dr. Titus Oatce [Dryden, Abialorn
and Achitophd].
Corbaccio : the confederate of Volpone. This character is
supposed to have been acted by Ben Jonson himself
[Ben Jonson, Volpone ; or, the Fox].
Cordelia : youngest of Lear's three daughters, and married
to the King of France. As angelic as her sisters are
fiendish [Shakespeare, King Lear].
Corflambo : the personification of sensual passion [Spenser,
Faery Queene].
Corinna : the daughter of Gripe and the wife of Dick
Amlet [Vanbrugb, Confederacy].
Corinthian, Tom : companion of Jerry Hawthorn (Tom
and Jerry) and sharing with him the role of hero
[Pierce Egan, Life in London].
Coriolanus, Caius Marcius : the haughty and passionate
but noble hero. He falls a victim to. his great qualities
almost as much as to his foibles [Shakespeare, Corio-
lanu*}.
Cormac II : King of Ireland, who succeeded his father
Artho on the throne [Ossian, Fingal; Dar-Thula and
Temora].
Cormalo : a chief who lived near Lake Lano and stole the
daughter of King Annir, for which deed he paid with
his life [Ossian, War of Inu-Thona].
Cornelius : a friend of Dr. Faustus, who persuades him to
sell his soul [Marlowe, Dr. Faustus].
Cornet : an attendant on Lady Fanciful [Vanbrugh, Pro
voked Wife].
COR 73 COU
Corney, Mrs. : matron of the workhouse »nere Oliver
Twist first saw the light. She married Mr. Bumble
[Dickens, Oliver Tiritl].
Cornflower, Henry : one of ' nature's gentlemen ' though
with a rough eiterior.
Mr*. : his wife, abducted by Sir Chas. Courtly
[C. I. M. Dibdln, Farmer1 i Wi/f].
Cornwall : the gloomy husband of Regan [Shakespeare,
A~m<7 Lear],
Coromboria, Vittori* : a very fiend in human shape [Webste? ,
The White Devil ; or, Vittoria Corombona].
Corporal Nym : tee Nym, Corporal.
Trim : see Trim, Corporal.
Corrouge : the sword of Sir Ortuel.
Corsand : a magistrate who presides at the examination of
Dirk Hatteraick [Scott, Guy Mannering].
Corsican Brothers : set Franchl.
Corvino : a Venetian merchant, the dupe of Mosca [Ben
Jonson, Volpone; or, The Fox].
Corydon : he wooed Pastorella, but had to stand aside for
Sir Calidore, who, to make him some amends, gave
him flocks and herds [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Costard : the clown [Shakespeare, Love't Labour' t Lett],
Costigan, Captain : a dram-drinking old scamp, the father
of Miss Fotheringay.
• Emily : an actress, with whom Arthur Pendennia
falls in love. Her stage name is Fotheringay
[Thackeray, Pendennit].
Cote Male-taile, Sir : the nickname of Sir Brewnor to
Noyre [Mallory, History of Prince Arthur}.
Cotta : intended for the Duke of Newcastle [Pope, Moral
Ettayt, Epistle ii.].
Courtall : a libertine, who tries his wiles upon Lady
Frances Touchwood, but ineffectively [Mrs. Cowley,
Belle1 1 Stratagem].
Courtland, Lord : the father of Lady Juliana, who, without
consulting his daughter, promises her hand to an aged
nobleman [Susan E. Ferrier, Marriage}.
Conrtley, Will : one of the characters in the Taller.
Courtly, Charles : the son of Sir Harcourt, a fashionable
young man, who cuts his father out in the affections
of Grace Harkaway.
Sir Harcourt : an elderly man of fashion, who is
suitor for the hand of an heiress named Grace Hark-
away, but is rejected in favour of his own son [Dion
Boucicault, London Aiturance].
Sir Charles : the abductor of Mrs Cornflower
fC. I. M. Dibdin, Farmer's Wife].
COJ 74 CRA
Coortly. Sir James : a gamester ; witty, light-hearted, and
unprincipled [Mrs. (Jentlivre, Basset-Table}.
Nice, Sir : tee Nice, Sir Courtley.
Coventry, Peeping Tom of : the one person who ' peeped '
.u Lady Uodiva as she rode through Coventry clothed
only in her own hair [Alfred Tennyson, Godiva}.
Coverdale, Miles : in this character the author to a large
extent painted his own portrait [Nathaniel Hawthorne,
mithalale Romance}.
Coverley, Sir Roger de : loyal to Church and King, and a
good landlord, he forms an ideal ' squire ' [Addison, in
Spectator}.
Cox : *ee Bor.
Crab : the guardian of Buck's fortune [Foot*, Englishman
Returned from Paris].
Crab -haw. Timothy : the servant of Sir Launcelot's Squire
[Smollett, Adventure* of Sir Launrftot Greaves}.
Crabtree : the gardener at Fairport [Scott, Antiquary\
the uncle of Sir Benjamin Backbite [Sheridan,
School for Scandal}.
an old deaf cynic ; a friend of Peregrine's [Smollett,
Peregrine Pickle].
Crackit, Toby : one of the burglars who took part in the
attempt upon Mrs. Maylie's house at Chertsey [Dickens,
filiver Twist}.
Cradlemont : King of Wales, who is vanquished by Arthur
[Alfred Tennyson, Coming of Arthur}.
Cradock, Sir : the husband of the only lady at King
Arthur's Court who could wear the mantle of chastity
[Percy, Reliques : Hoi/ and the Mantle}.
Craigdallie, Adam : a baillie at Perth [Scott, Fair Maid o)
Perth}.
Craigengelt : one of Bucklaw's companions [Scott, Bride
Cranbourne, Sir Jasper : the friend of Sir Geoffrey Peveril
[Scott, Peveril o/ the Peak].
Crane, Ichabod : a Yankee schoolmaster of cadaverous
appearance [Irving, Sketch Book : Legend of Sleepy
tloUoti'].
Cranstoun, Henry : lover of Margaret of Branksome, the
daughter of his hereditary foe. He wins her by im
personating William of Daloraine in a trial by comb.it,
in which he comes off victorious [Scott, Lay oj the
Latt Minstrel].
Cratcint, Bob : Scrooge's underpaid and overworked clerk,
who in spite of poverty is happy.
— — Tim : Bob's little lame sou [Dickens, C.'iristmat
Carol].
CRA 75 CP.E
Crawford, Henry : rejected by Fanny Price, he eventually
elopes with her cousin, Mrs. Rushworth.
Mary : the frivolous sister of Henry [Jane Austen,
MansMd Park}.
Crawley, Captain Rawdon : a dragoon and a ' blood about
town '. A man with few brains and many faults, he
yet loved his wife (Becky Sharp) truly, and when he
discovered her real character his heart broke.
Lady : Sir Pitt's second wife, the daughter of a
provincial ironmonger of little character.
.If in : the sister of the first Sir Pitt Crawley, who
disinherited Kawdon when he married a gover
ness.
Mr. Pitt : the brother of Rawdon ; an aggressive
' evangelical ' who behaved with the utmost pro
priety [Thackeray, Vanity Fair}.
Sir Pitt : a mean and vulgar, ignorant man, whose
daughters Becky Sharp was expected to teach.
Creakle, Mr : the schoolmaster to whom David Copperfleld
was sent by his stepfather [Dickens, David Copper-
fi-ld].
Credulous, Justice and Mrs. Bridget : the parents of
Lauretta. A foolish but good-natured old couple
[Sheridan, St. Patrick'! Day}.
Cregeen, Caesar : the father of Katherine, a self-righteous
oM scoundrel.
Kittherine : the heroine, who first marries Peter
Quilliam and afterwards Philip Christian [Hall Caine,
The Manxman}.
Crellin, Mona : an ignorant girl of low birth, who becomes
the wife of Thomas Wilson Christian [Hall, Caine, Trie
Manxman].
Cresseid : the heroine of a poem founded on the Trnjan
legend and published In the late fifteenth century
[Henrysoun, Testiment of Fair Cresseid].
Cresaida : a giddy girl who falls in love with Troilus and
afterwards deserts him [Shakespeare, Troiiu* and
Crestida}.
Cresswell, Madame : a woman of very bad character, whose
funeral sermon was written by the Duke of Bucking
ham [Scott, PeverU of the Peak].
Crete, Hound o! : a blood-hound [Shakespeare, Midrummer
A'igfU'l Dream}.
Crevecour, Count PhUip de : he carried Charles the Bol-l'a
defiance to Louis XI of France [Scott, Quentin l»\tr-
ward].
Crewler, Mrs. : a confirmed invalid, the wife of the Rev.
Horace Crewler and mother-in-law of Traddles.
CRE 78 ORO
Vrevler, Sophy : ' the dearest girl in the world ', afterwarda
Tommy Traddlea' wife [Dickens, David Copper fitld}.
Cricca : servant to Pandolfo [Tomkis, AUntmatar}.
Crimora and Connal : Crimora accidentally shot her sweet
heart, Oonnal, in trying to defend him. Th*y bolb
died and were buried in one grave [OssUn. Carrie
Tkura}.
Crimsworth, Edward : the brother of William Crtmsworth,
to whom he ia most cruel [Charlotte Bronte, Ik* fro-
fettor}.
Crispinella : sister to Beatrice, and a great contra** to
her; she ia bright, lively, and witty [Marston, LhUA
Courtcaan].
Crispinus : the hero ; a thoroughly bad poet, intended for
Mars ton, with whom Jonson had quarrelled [Hea
Jonson, Criipinut].
Crites : supposed to have been intended by Urn author
as a portrait of himself [Ben Jonaon, Cynthia' i
Croaker : a cynic who believes all life is vanity, but has a
good heart. He is Miss Richland's guardian.
- Lmniine : his son, who falls in love with On>i»
Woodville.
- Mrt. : a light-hearted, cheerful woman — the very
opposite to her husband [Goldsmith, Good-nctwtd
Man].
Croasse, La : intended for John Wilson Croker [Brougham,
Albert Lunel}.
Crocodile, Lady Kitty : Duchess of Kingston, who was tried
for bigamy [Foote, Trip to Calais}.
Croisnel, Renee de : a French girl, with whom Nevil Beau-
champ falls in love at Venice. She is forced to marry
an elderly French nobleman and is afterwards un
happy [George Meredith, Beauchamp't Career}.
Croft, Admiral : a fine old gentleman and one of the heroes
of Trafalgar [Jane Austen, Pertuation].
Cioftangry, Mr. Crystal : a gentleman who has seen better
days : said to be intended for the author's father [Scott,
Fair Maid of Perth}.
Crop, George : an honest farmer who cannot agree with
his wife Dorothy [Hoare, No Sony, no Supper}.
Cropland, Sir Charles : an extravagant and heartless
man of fashion [Colman the Younger, Poor Gentle
man}.
Crosbie, Mrs. : wife of the provost and a cousin of Red-
gauntlet.
- William : the provost of Dumfries ; a friend of
Mr. Fairford [Scott, Redgavntlet}.
CRO 77 CUL
Crosbie. Mr. : a cowardly, shallow character, whose follies
and wrong - doings lead however, to repentance
[Anthony Trollope, Small House at Allinyton].
Crotchet, Squire : a retired man of business who settles
in the country — an unscrupulous self-seeker [Peacock,
Crotchet Cattle}.
Crothar : the ' lord of Atha ' in Connaught [Ossian,
Temora].
Crowdero : one of the leaders of the mob at the bear-
baiting [Butler, Bvdibrat].
Crowe, Captain : the companion of Sir Launcelot in his
efforts to reform the world. His real avocation was
that of a captain of a merchant vessel [Smollett,
A dventures of Sir Launcelot Or eaves].
Croye, Countess E&meline of : aunt of Countess Isabella.
She marries William de la Marck.
— — IiabeUe, Countess of : a ward of the Duke of Bur
gundy, who marries Quentin Durward [Scott, Quentin
fHtrward].
Crorsado, The Great : intended for General Lord Fairfax
[Butler, Hudibrat].
Crummies, Misi Ninetta : ' the infant phenomenon '.
Mr. Vincent : the manager of the Portsmouth
theatre where Migs Belvawney acts.
Mrs. Vincent : hiB wife, a kindly woman [Dickena,
fiitholas Nicklehy].
Cruncher, Jerry, Senior : an odd-job man at Tellson's Bank
and a ' resurrection man '.
•^— Jerry, Junior : his son and assistant at night,
though not fully aware of the nature of the business
[Dickens, Tale of Tvxt Cities].
Crnpp, Mri. : the person with whom David lodged IB
Buckingham Street [Dickens, David Copperfidd].
Crnshton, The Hon. Mr. : a friend of Captain Dowler*s
[Dickens, Pickwick Papers].
Crusoe, Robinson : the shipwrecked sailor who lives in
solitude for years. His story is based on the adven
tures of Alexander Salkirk [Defoe, Robinson Cru-
Cnddle' Headrigg : see Headrigg, Cuddle.
Cuddy : a shepherd who admires Buxoma and sings h er
praises to the belittlement of Blouzelinda [Gar,
Pastoral I.].
— — — a herdsman [Spenser, Shepherd's Calendar].
Culling, Rosamund : the housekeeper of Lord Rompey.
whom he marries. She entertains a great affection
for Nevil Beauchamp [George Meredith,
Career}.
CUL 78 CYT
Cully, Sir Nicholas : a very foolish knight [Etherege,
Comical Revenge ; or, Love in a Tub].
Cumnor, Lady Harriet : Molly Gibson's friend [Mrs. Gaskell,
iritr* and Daughters}.
Cunobeline : son of Taaciovanus, and father of Caractacus,
King of the Silures. Coins still exist bearing his name
[Drayton, Poli/olbion].
Curio : a gentleman ia the train of the Duke of Ulyria
[Shakespeare, Twelfth Xiglti}.
Curryfin, Lord : an amiable young man, who has a mania
for trying dangerous experiments [Peacock, Oryll
Grange}.
Cnrtio : Petruchio's servant [Shakespeare, Taming of the
Shrew].
distance, Dame Christian : a gay widow for whose hand
Kalph Roister Doister is an unsuccessful suitor [UdaJl,
Ralph Roister bolster}.
daughter of the Emperor of Rome and betrothed
to the Sultan of Syria. She survives many terrible
adventures [Chaucer, Canterbury Tales : The Man of
Law's Tale}.
Cute, Alderman : ' resolved to put down everything ', suicide,
babies and poverty [Dickens, The Cliinus],
Cuthona : daughter of Rumar, betrothed to Conlath
[ O.s^ian, Conlnth and Cuthona] ; tee also Coiilath.
Cuthullin : son of Semo, regent of Ireland [Ossiau, Fingtii
and Death of Cuthullin}.
Cutter : a merry man ' about town ', and the leading
character in the comedy [Cowley, Cutter o) Coleman
Street}.
Cuttle. Cap. Edward : a retired mariner of extraordinary
sweetness of character [Dickens, Dombey and Son].
Cymbeline : a mythical King of Britain whom Shake
speare has taken as the subject of this play. Imogen,
the heroine, is his daughter [Shakespeare, Ctfnwe-
I if,"}.
Cymochles : the husband of the enchantress, Acrasia. lie
is slain by Arthur [Spenser, Faery Qiieene].
Cynetha : son of Cadwallon, King of Wales, whose eyes
were destroyed by his uncle Owen. He went vutli
Madoc to North America [Southey, Madoc}.
Cynthia : daughter of Lord and Lady Pliant, in love with
Mellefont [Congreve, Double Dealer}.
this has been the name of innumerable subjects of
poems, amongst them one by Richard Barnfield,
Sir \V. Raleigh, Michael Drayton, and Ben Jonaon.
Cythna : a character in the poem [Shelley, Rmolt ej It-
lam}.
DAG 79 DAM
Dacier, Percy : a rising politician who falls in love with
.Diana Warwick. He tells her a State secret, which she
gives away to a paper. Learning it from her lips, he
breaks from her and at once engages himself to another
woman [George Meredith, Diana of the Crost-
way»}.
Dagon : sixth in order in the hierarchy of hell [Milton,
Poradue Lost].
Dagonet, Sir : the fool of King Arthur's Court [Alfred
Tennyson, Idyll* of the King: Last Tournament].
Dainty, Lady : a fashionable lady attached to ' dogs,
doctors and monkeys ' [Gibber, Double Gallant].
Daisy, Solomon : parish clerk and bellringer of Chigwell
[Dickens, Barnaby Ritdge].
Dale, Lily : a character in the story, who is jilted by her
lover [Anthony Trollope, Small Home at Allington].
- • Parson : a clergyman of a sweet and kindly nature
[Lytton, My Novel].
——— Laetetia : a romantic girl, whose father rents a
cottage on Sir Willoughby Patterned estate. She
gradually has her eyes opened to the true character
of Sir Willoughhy and only engages herself to him
under protest [Oeorge Meredith. The. Egoist].
Dalgarno, Lord Malcolm of : son of the Earl of Huntinglen,
a very profligate young nobleman [Scott, Fortune* of
Nigel}.
Dalgetty, Ritt master Dngald : the Laird of Drumthwacket :
a wearisome pedant but excellent soldier of fortune
[Scott, Legend of Montrote}.
Dalton, Reginald : the hero of the novel, who marries
Helen Hesketh [Lockhart, Reginald Dalton}.
Damas, Colonel : one of the characters in the play [Lytton,
Lady of Lyon*}.
Damian : the lover of May, old January's wife [Chaucer,
Canterbury Tale* : The Merchant'* Tale}.
— — — a young squire, who aspires to become a templar
[Scott, Ivanhof].
Damiotti, Dr. Baptist! : a Paduan quack who possesses a
magic mirror [Scott, Aunt Margaret'* Mirror}.
Damocles : Kin? of Arcadia [Greene, Arcadia}.
Damon and Musidora : two lovers who misunderstood one
another, but at last were happy [James Thorn.''. n,
Seatons}.
and Pythias : 'the most excellent comedie of two
of the most faithfullest freendes ', of which the author
was Richard Edwards.
and Pythias : a tragedy [Bacim and Sheil, Damon
and Pytftiat}.
DAM 80 DAR
Damosel, The Blessed : the subject of a poem [Rossetti,
Blessed Damosd}.
Damply, Mrs. : a widow [Garrick, Male Coquette}.
D'Amville : the murderer of his brother, Montferrers
[Tourneur, Atheist's Tragedy].
Dan die Dinmont : see Dinmont, Dandle.
Dane, William : the villain who falsely accused Silas
Marner and took his wife, Sarah, from him [George
Eliot, Silas Marner].
Dangle : said to be intended for Thomas Vaughaii, a
playwright of mediocre abilities [Sheridan, The Critic].
Danhasch : one of the genii [Arabian Nights}.
Daniel : the son of Widow Lackitt, very stupid but very
wealthy [Southern, Oroonoko].
Danisburgh, Lord : the friend of Diana Warwick and
prime minister. Out of their friendship springs a
baseless scandal, which results in Mr.'Warwick bringing
an unsuccessful action for divorce against his wife
[George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways].
Dapper : a foolish clerk who goes to Subtle for aid In hi*
betting transactions [Ben Jonson, Alchemist].
Dapperwit : a foolish, vain and fast man [Wycherley ,
Love in a Wood].
Darby and Joan : a loving old couple, the subject of a
ballad [attributed to Matthew Prior, Happy Old
Couple}.
Daren, Car and Nancy : the Queen of Spades, and Queen
of Diamonds [Hardy, Te»* of the D' I'rberv tiles].
Darcy : this aristocratic hero is at first the embodiment
of snobbish pride and prejudice, but ends by marrying
Elizabeth Bennet out of pure admiration for her good
qualities [Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice].
Dardu-Lena : the daughter of Foldath, General of the Fir-
bolg or Belgae In the south of Ireland [Ossian, Tcm-
Daredevil : a boastful coward who, when in danger, casts
his principles aside and begins to pray. He is the
hero of the comedy [Otway, Atheist].
Dargonet : slain by Hugo the Little in a combat between
four against four [Davenaat, Gondibert.]
Darius, King : the leading character in a religious interlude,
"a prettie new enterlude both pithie and pleasant'
[King Darius].
Darlemont: the guardian of a deaf and dumb nephew —
Julio of Harancour — and false to his trust [Holcroft,
Ilea] and Dumb}.
Darnley : «he lover of Charlotte Lambert [Bickerstafl.
Hypocrite}.
OAR 81 DAW
Camay, Charles : Marquis 8k Evremonde, the lover ot
Lucie Manette, and the man for whom Sydney Carton
gave his life on the guillotine [Dickens, Tale of Two
Citiet].
Darnel, Aurelia : a character in the novel [Smollett, Ad'
venture* of Sir Launcelot Greaves}.
Dartle, Rosa : Mrs. Steerforth's companion, and In Iov»
with her son [Dickens, David Copperfteld].
Dashall, The Hon. Tom : the cousin and companion ot
Rob Tallyho, Esq. [Pierce Egan, Real Life in London].
Dashwood : a satirical character in the comedy [Murphy,
Knnw Tour Own Mind].
Elinor : the heroine of the story — the embodiment
of ' sense ', who marries Edward Ferrars.
Marianne : the ' sensibility ' of the story, who after
much tribulation marries Colonel Brandon.
Mr. John : the stepbrother of the heroine and her
sisters, who is always afraid his income may be en
croached upon by them [Jane Austen, Seme and
Smsibilit't}.
Daura : daughter of Armln and affianced bride of Armar.
He is drowned at sea and Daura dies of grief [Ossian,
Songi of Sclma].
Davenant, Charles : married to Marianne Dormer, his
father's first wife.
Lady: 'a faultless wife' and very beautiful.
Lord : first married to Marianne Dormer, and then,
whilst she still lived, to Louisa Travers [Cumberland,
The Mysterious Husband].
David : intended for Charles II [Dryden, Absalom and
Achitaphet].
King : brother of Madoc and King of North Wale* ;
he married Emma Plantagenet, and killed several of
his brothers [Southey, Madoc].
Copperfleld : tee Copperfleld, David.
Davilow. Mrs. : Gwendolen Harleth's mother [George
Eliot, Daniel Veronda].
Daw, Sir David : a wealthy Monmouthshire baronet who
pays court to Emily Tempest [Cumberland, Wheel of
fortune]
Sir John : a coxcomb [Ben Jonson, Epicene; or.
Silent Woman].
Friar Tobias : the hero of a popular song, talcing
the side of the friars against the followers of WicUfl
[Friar Tobias Daw].
.vawkins, John : one of Fagin's pupils, usually known as
the 'Artful Dodger', a young but very accomplished
thief [Dickens, Oliver Turitl].
W W.F. G
DAW £2 DED
Dawson, Bully : a London sharper alluded to in the
Spectator, No. ii.
Jemmy : the subject of a ballad, which tells of
Kitty's love for young Captain Dawson in the army
of the young Chevalier [Shenstone, Jemmy Datcton}.
Phoebe : ' the pride of Lammas Fair ' [Crabbe,
Parish Register}.
Day, Abel : a foolish creature who aspires to the hand of the
heiress, Arabella [Knight, ffonett Thieve*].
' Mr. : the henpecked chairman of the Committee
[Howard, The Committee].
Dazzle : an adventurer living on his wits, who cleverly
contrives to become a guest of Squire Harkaway, at
Oak Hall [Dion Boucicault, London Aituranre].
De Courcy ; an Irishman in love with an Italian woman
and her daughter [Maturin, Women].
De Crave, Horace : the easy-going, unscrupulous friend of
Sir Willoughby Patterne [George Meredith, Th*
Egoift].
De Qard : a noble and much travelled gentleman, who
goes In chase of Mirabel [J. Fletcher, Wild-Ooote
Chatr].
De L*Epee, Abb* : the man who took pity on Julio Haran-
eonr, when he was deserted, and brought him up
[Holcroft, Deal and Dumb}.
De Valmont, Count : the father of Florian and uncle of
Geraldine [Dimond, Foundling of the Forest].
\)ean, Mrs. : the housekeeper who tells the beginning of
the story [Emily Bronte, Withering Heights].
Deane. Lncy : the rival and cousin of Maggie Tulliver
[George Eliot, Mill on the Floss].
Deans, Davie : an Edinburgh cow-feeder, the father of
Effie and Jeanie.
— F.ffie : imprisoned and condemned to death for
child -murder. Through the efforts of her sister the
sentence is revoked and she dies in a convent.
— Jeanif. : the heroine. To save her sister she walks
from Edinburgh to London and obtains an audience
of the Queen [Scott, Heart of Midlothian].
Debarry, Sir Maximus : the Squire.
— — — Aumutiis : brother of Sir Maximiis.
Philin : the Squire's son [George Eliot, Felix Holt].
Debbitch, Deborah : the governess at the Peverils [Scott,
Pewril of the. Peak].
Dsborah, Miss : *" Jenkins, Miss Deborah.
Dedlock, Lady Honoria : a beautiful woman, but miserable
w'tli the secret of being the mother of an illegitimate
child.
DED 83 DES
DetUoek, Sir Lficetter : a proud, conservative man who
believes in ' family ', and especially in his own [Dickens,
Bleak House}.
Deerslayer : the nickname of Natty Bumpo, q.v.
Defarge, Madame Therese : a terrible woman who sits and
knits all day, but secretly aids towards the reign of
terror.
- Mont. Ernest : her husband, the keeper of a wine
shop, a meeting-place of the revolutionists [Dickena,
Tale of Two Cities].
Degore. Sir : the hero of an old English romance.
Delaval, Maria : daughter of Colonel Delaval and betrothed
to Mr. Versatile [Holcroft, Be'$ Much to Blame}.
Delmour, Lieut.-Col. Frederick : nephew of Lord Rossvilla
and younger brother of the heir apparent to the earl
dom. Proud and accomplished, but unprincipled
[Susan E. Ferrier, Inheritance}.
Delville : one of the heroine's guardians [Fanny Burney,
Cecilia].
Demetrius : the son of King Antigonus and in love with
Celia [Beaumont and Fletcher, Humorous Lieute
nant].
- intended for John Marston [Ben Jonson, Poetitter}.
- the young Athenian, who marries Helena [Shake
speare, Midsummer Night's Dream}.
Dempster, Janet : the heroine of one of the scenes from
Cli-ric'tl Lite. She is wretched In her home and nearly
succumbs to the allurements of drink, but is rescued
by a clergyman [George Eliot, Janet's Repenl-
Denham, Jenny : the ward of Dr. Shrapnel, who marries
Nevil Beauchamp. A fine type of girl [George Mere
dith, Beauchamp's Career].
Dennis, Ned : the hangman who took an active part is
the ' No Popery ' riots and was hung [Dickens, Barnaby
Dennison, Jenny : Edith Bellenden's maid, who marries
Cuddie Headrigg [Scott, Old Mortality}.
Depazzi : an idiotically foolish man, who plays a part 1»
the comedy [Shirley, Humorous Courtier\.
Dermat O'Dyna : noted for liis beauty and courage. He
eloped with the Princess Grainia, and together they
had many adventures [Old Celtic Romance}.
Deronda, Daniel the hero. Discovering that he is of Jewish
birth he resolves to restore his race to its lost position
among the nations [George Eliot, Daniel Dertmda}.
Desborough, Colonel : a Parliamentary Commissioner
[Scott, Woodstock].
OE3 84 DJO
Dttborough.Lncy: married secretlytoRichard Feverel. After
the marriage, Sir Austin Feverel keeps them apart, to
allow of the working of his system. This leads to
unhappy results, and Lucy dies [George Meredith,
Ordeal of Richard Feverel].
Deschappellen, Pauline : the daugh ter of a Lyons merchant ;
Beauseant, Glavis, and Claude Melnotte were all suitors
for her hand. After ' serving ' for two years Melnotte
won her [Lytton, Lady of Lyont].
Desdemona : the victim of a foul conspiracy which ended
in her being slain by Othello, who doted on her [Shake
speare, Othello].
Despair, Giant : he dwelt In Doubting Castle and took
Christian and Hopeful captive for sleeping in his
grounds. But Christian with his key, called ' Promise ',
set himself and his companion free [Bunyan, Pilfrim'$
Progrett].
Devereux : the hero [Lytton, Deter &ix\.
Dewy, Dick : the hero [Hardy, Under the Greenwood
Tree].
Diamond : a son of Agape, slain by Cambalo [Spenser,
faery Queene].
Diana : daughter of the woman with whom Helena stayed,
and with whom Bertram, Helena's husband, fell in
ove, she being blameless [Shakespeare, All's Well that
End* WeU}.
— — — de Lascours : the daughter of Ralph and Louise,
and affianced to Horace de Brienne, whom, however,
her sister Martha marries [Stirling, Orphan of th«
Frozen Sea].
of the Crossways : tee Warwick, Diana.
Warwick : ite Warwick, Diana.
Yernon : tee Vernon, Diana.
Diarmaid :=Dermat O'Dyna, q.v.
Dibutades : a potter whose daughter traced her lover's
shadow on the wall. He applied the same method
in his pottery and thereby produced sculpture in
relief [Ouida, Ariadne}.
Dick, Little : a pauper child with whom Oliver was boarded
out at a branch workhouse [Dickens, Oliver Twist].
" Dick," Mr. : tee Babley, Richard.
Didapper : a wealthy fop, very foolish, who has designs
upon Fanny [Fielding, Joteph Andrewt].
Diddler, Jeremy : a clever swindler who wheedles money
out of people, partly by his wit [Kenney, Raiting the
Wind].
Didier, Henri : the loyal lover of Julie L*aurgues [Stirling,
Courier of Lyont].
DID 85 DIP
Dido : the Queen of Carthage, who fell in love with Mneaa,
has been the subject of innumerable plays and poems;
amongst them are Nash and Marlowe, Dido Queen of
Carthage; D'Urfey, Dido and JEneat; Purcell. Dido
and Mneas, etc., etc.
Ditgo : a sexton who regrets the healthiness of the parish
wherein his lot is cast [Beaumont and Fletcher,
Spanish Curate].
— — Don : an elderly man who tries to train a country
girl as his future wife. Just as he thinks her properly
prepared she elopes with a younger man [Bickerstaff,
Padlock].
Diggery : a stage-struck servant who infects hia fellow-
servants with his own complaint [Jackman, All the
World-* a Stage].
Diggon, Davie : a shepherd who professes to have travelled,
and to have been shocked by the luxury of his kind, in
foreign lands [Spenser, ShepJiearde' I Calendar].
Diggory : waa ' taken from the barn to make a show at the
side-table ' [Goldsmith, She Stoopi to Conquer].
Dimmesdale, Arthur : a Puritan clergyman, reverenced as
a saiat, but secretly conscious of having sinned with
Hester Prynne [Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter].
Dimsdale, Sir Harry : a muffin-seller [Foote, Mayor of
Garratt].
Dinah : the coloured cook at Mr. St. Clair's [Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom't Calin].
Aunt : the aunt who left Tristram £1,000 [Sterne,
Tristram Shandy}.
Morris : tee Morris, Dinah.
Dinant : a sometime lover of Mrs. Champernel [Beaumon-t
and Fletcher, Little French Latoyer].
Dinmont, Dandie and Ailie : an old farmer and his wife.
Dandle (Andrew) was known as the ' Fighting Din-
inont of Liddesdale '. He owned a famous breed ol
dogs [Scott, Guy Manncring}.
Diogenes : a dog given to Florence Dombey by Toots in
memory of Paul, who had been fond of it [Dickens,
Dombey and Son].
Dion, Lord : the father of Euphrasia [J. Fletcher, Phuatter ;
or, Love Lies A -bleeding].
Dionysia : the wife of Cleon, governor of Tarsus, to whom
Marina is entrusted during her motherless infancy.
She is burnt to death [Shakespeare, Pcriclet, Princ*
of Tyre}.
Dionyaius : the tyrant of Syracuse, slain by Euphrasia
[Murphy, Grecian Daughter}.
Dipsas : a venomous serpent [Milton, Paradise Lost}.
DIR 86 DOE
Dirk Hatteraick : tee Hatteraick, Dirk.
Dirkovitch, Col. : a Russian soltiler and spy travelling ia
India [Kipling, Lift* Handicap}.
Dutafflna : betrothed to Bombastes, but she was tempted
to desert him for Artaxaminoua for half-a-crown
[Rhodes, Bombattct Furioso].
Diver. Colonel : the editor of the Xeic York Rowdy Journal
[Dickens, Martin Chuzdeu-it].
Jenny : she pretends to love Macheath, but helps
to betray him into the hands of the constables [Gay,
Beggar'i Opera].
Dizon, Reuben : the village schoolmaster [Crabbe, The
Borough}.
Dizzy : a character in the play [Garrick, Male Co
quette}.
Dobbin, William, Colonel : the awkward and shy but
large-hearted man of delicate feelings who loves
Amelia and serves her faithfully for many years with
out recompense, though she marries him at last
[Thackeray, Vanity Fair].
Dobbins, Humphrey : the servant of Sir Robert Bramble
[Colman the Younger, Poor Gentleman].
Doctor Dove : tee Dove, Doctor.
Slop : tee Slop, Doctor.
Squintum : tee Squintum, Doctor.
Syntax : tee Syntax, Doctor.
Dodger, The Artf nl : tee Dawkins, John.
Dodgson : a low-class lawyer [Tom Taylor, Contested
Elftion\.
Dods, Meg : landlady of the Mowbery Armt at St. Ronan's
Well [Scott, St. Konan't Well].
Dodson : the maiden name of Maggie Tulliver's three
aunts — Aunt Pullet, Aunt Glegg, and Aunt Moss
[George Eliot, Mill on the Floss}.
• a farmer who on his wedding day was summoned
by Death. Upon his protesting Death said he should
not be summoned until he had received three warnings—
which were lameness, deafness and blindness. The
last did not come till farmer Dodson was eighty [Mrs.
Thrale, Three Warning*].
and Fogg : the lawyers who, acting for Mrs. Bardell,
iue Mr. Pickwick for breach of promise [Dickens,
Piclncick Paper t}.
Doeg : intended for Elkanah Settle, because he ' fell upon •
Dryden with his pen, but was only a ' dtiver of asses •
[Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel].
DOG 87 DON
Dogberry : a city watchman who strives to teach hla
fellows how to do their duty, by avoiding it [Shake
speare, Much Ado About Nothing}.
Doggrell : a poet [Mrs.Cowley.TAe Guardian, omitted in the
later version of the play called Cutter ol Coleman Street],
Doiley, Abraham : was a charity boy who amassed a large
fortune and, uneducated himself, was determined that
his son should not labour under the same misfortune.
Elizabeth : his daughter, who marries Captain
Granger [Mrs. Cowley, Who'* the Dupe .«].
Dolabella : though a friend of Mark Antony he loved
Cleopatra [Dryden, All for Love].
Dollallolla, Queen : mother of Huncamunca, and wife ot
King Arthur, in the burlesque [Fielding, altered by
O'Hara, Tom Thumb].
Dolly Varden : tee Varden, Dolly.
Dolon : 'a man of subtle wit and wicked mind1, the father
of Guizor [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Dombey, Edith : Mr. Dombey's second wife ; the widow
of CoL Granger and daughter of Mrs. Skewton. She
elopes with Mr. Carker but leaves him at once.
Fanny : Mr. Dombey's first wife, the mother ot
Florence and Paul.
Florence : the despised and neglected daughter ol
Mr. Paul Dombey, and the loving companion of little
I'aul. She marries Walter Gay.
- Little Paul : Mr. Dombey's son and heir, a delicate,
pretty child with a ' wan and wistful face,' and thought
ful beyond his years. His health fails under the strain
of school discipline and he dies.
' Mr. Paul : proud, egoistic and pompoua, and in- .
different to the feelings of others, he neglects his wives
and daughter, but dotes on his son, who dies [Dickens,
Dombey and Son].
Dominic, Friar : the leading chapter in the play which
was designed to lay bare the vices of the priesthood
[Dryden, Spanish Friar].
Dominie Sampcon : tee Sampson, Dominie.
Dominique : an old gossip ; the footman at the Franvals
[Holcroft, Deaf and Dumb}.
Donald : Mr. Mordent's steward [Holcroft, Deserted
Daughter; changed to The Steward}.
Donegild : mother of Alia, King of Northumberland, and
the person who tried to get rid of Custance and her
boy [Chaucer, Canterbury Tales : Man o) Lav/* Tale],
Doaica : a Finnish girl, who at the sound of a ' death-
•pectrt* feU UieltfM into her lover's arm* [Soutliey,
DON 83 DOR
Donne, The Eev. Mr. : Curate of Whinbury, under Dr.
Doultby, a vulgar upstart [Charlotte Bronte, Shirley].
Donnerhugel, Rudolph : one of the Swiss envoys to Charles
the Bold [Scott, Anne of Oeierstein].
Donovan : a thoughtful youth who passes through a
phase of unbelief [Edna Lyall, Donovan].
Donnithorne, Arthur : the man who ruined Hetty Sorrel,
and who rode up with her reprieve just as she was
ascending the scaffold [George Eliot, Adam Bede].
Dony : a dwarf belonging to Florimel [Spenser, Faery
Qntene].
Donzel del Phebo : the hero of a Spanish romance, who
was ' most excellently fair', and whose lady-love was
Eosiclear [Mirrour of Knighthood].
DooJan, Morgan : a journalist [Thackeray, Pendennis].
Doone, Lorna : the one girl in a family of outlaws dwelling
on Exmoor. Her brothers terrorized the entire
neighbourhood [Blackmore, Lorna Doone].
Doorm : an earl whom Geraint slew for his impertinence
to Enid [Alfred Tennyson, Idyllt of the King : Geraint
and Enid].
Dora : the subject of an idyll [Alfred Tennyson, Dora].
Dorastus and Faunia : the hero and heroine of the romance
upon which the Winter' t Tale was founded [Greene,
Pandosto and the Triumph of Time].
Dora.x : the name taken by Alonzo when he deserted
Sebastian of Portugal to join the Emperor of Barbary
[Dryden, Don Sebastian].
Doricourt : betrothed to Letitia Hardy. A fashionable
man about town, but also a man of honour [Mrs.
Cowley, Belle"! Stratagem].
^— — the name of a character in the drama [Congreve,
Way of the World].
Dorigen : a noble lady who, from pity, married Arviragus
[Chaucer, Canterbury Talcs : The Franklin's Tale]'.
Dorimant : a libertine : intended for the Earl of Rochester
[Etherege, Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter}.
Dorinda : daughter of Lady Bountifm and loving Aimwell
[Farquhar, Bemut Stratagem}.
D'Ormeo : the Prime Minister of both King Victor and
King Charles [R. Browning, King Victor and King
Charles].
Dormer, Captain : engaged to Louisa Travers, she, being
told by mischief-makers that he was false to her,
married Lord Davenant instead.
. Marianne : his sister, and married to Lord
Davenant uuder a falae name [Rich. Cumberland,
Zlytltritnu Hialand}.
DOR 89 DOR
Dormer, Carolina : the orphan of a London merchant
who loses her fortune through the dishonesty of her
manager [Colman the Younger, Heir at Law}.
Dornton, Harry : of a fine nature, spoilt through want of
restraint. AVhen on the brink of utter ruin he is saved
by his marriage with Sophia Freelove.
• Mr. : a wealthy banker, who sees his son on the
road to ruin but has not the heart to restrain him
[Holcroft, Road to Ruin].
Doron : a character which some have supposed to be in
tended for Shakespeare [Greene, Menaphon].
Dorothea : ' the peerless Queen of Scots ' [Greene, Jennet
the Fourth].
• a woman who gives evidence of the most devoted
heroism [Massinger, Virgin Martyr].
Dorothy, Old : the housekeeper of Simon Glover [Scott,
Fair Maid of Perth}.
Dorriforth : a Roman Catholic priest, the guardian of Miss
Milner, who is in love with him. Ultimately ha ia
released from his vows and marries her [Mrs. Inehbald,
A Simple Story].
Porrillon, Miss Maria : daughter of Sir William, very
beautiful and accomplished, but frivolous. Married
to a man she loves, she reforms.
• Sir William : a wealthy Anglo-Indian, with an
only daughter [Mrs. Inehbald, Wives as They Were and
Maids as They Are}.
Dorrit, Amy: known as 'Little Dorrit', she spent her
childhood in the Marshalsea when her father was a
prisoner. She married Arthur C'lennam.
— — Kdward : known as ' Tip ' the brother of Amy ;
an idler and a spendthrift.
— — — Fanny : elder sister of Amy and a ballet dancer,
who afterwards marries Mr. Sparkler.
• Frederick : the uncle of Amy, who left off wasliing
when dragged down by his brother's ruin, and con
soled himself by playing a clarionet.
— — — Mr, Wm. : a weak, shy man who is known as the
' Father of the Marchalsea '. He dies a rich man,
having become heir to a large estate [Dickens, Litde
Dorrit}.
John : the hero, and ti.le of an old ballad.
John : the name of a ci a acter in the comedy.
Dory : Sir George Thunder's servaut ; faithful, but noisy
[O'Keefe, Wild 0<tf«J.
0'03 93 DOV
D'Otborn, Count : the governor of Giant's Mount Fortres*
where the 'State Prisoner', Ernest de Fridberg, was
incarcerated [Stirling, State Prisoner}.
Dot : see Perrybingle, Mrs. Mary.
Douban : Uie doctor who healed tke Greek king of leprosy
[Arabian Nights}.
Dongal Cratur, The : an untamed but faithful follower of
Rob Roy [Scott, Rob Roy}.
Douglas, Adelaide Julia Geraldine : one of the twin daugh-
te»8 of Henry and Lady Juliana Douglas.
Archibald, Major : elder son of the Laird of
Glenfern and brother of Henry Douglas.
— — Edward : son of Henry and JAdy Juliana Douglas,
who marries Lady Emily Lindore.
i . • Mary : one of the twin daughters of Henry and
Lady Juliana Douglas, and the 'heroine of the
tale.
Mitt Orizzy : one of the three maiden aunts of
Henry Douglas, and only distinguishable ' by her simple
good nature ' and general mudtlle-headedness.
Miss Jaeky : reckoned a ' very sensible woman '
and greatly esteemed for her oratorical powers, but
obstinate, illiberal, and interfering. An aunt of
Henry Douglas.
Miss Nicky : one of Henry Douglas's three maiden
aunts, who, being the youngest, was fain to content
herself with a subordinate role in the household.
Mrs. : wife of Major Archibald Douglas, and
afterwards the guardian of Mary Douglas, the heroine
[Susan E. Ferrier, Marriage].
Clara : beautiful in mind and body, and in love
with Alfred Evelyn, whom she eventually marriea
[Lytton, Money].
Ellen : the Lady of the Bleeding Heart [Scott,
Lady of the Lake}.
Jim : an Englishman of great courage, who took
part in the defence of Delhi [Flora A. Steele, On tie
Face of the Waters}.
Ooustenwivel : an astrologist and wielder of the divining
rod [Scott, Antiquary}.
Dove, Doctor : the hero of the novel, who has a horse
sailed Nobbs [Southey, Doctor Dove].
Lady : a termagant, who over-stepped the linuU
of Sir Benjamin's patience at last.
Sir Benjamin : a little, feeble, henpecked knight.
Sophia : daughter of Sir Benjamin, engaged to
Robert Belfleld though loving Andrew, whom she
marriw after all [Cumberland, Brothers].
DOW 91 DRU
Dowlas, Daniel : an old Gosport shopkeeper who unex
pectedly succeeds to a peerage and large incoiu::.
Just as he is about to enjoy his new honours tue
rightful heir appears.
— — — Dick : his son, a wild ne'er-do-well, who falls in
love with Cicely Homespun [Colman the Younger,
Har at Law}.
Dowler, Captain and Mrs. : a noisy coward, whom Mr.
Pickwick meets at the White Horte Cdlar, and ni«
wife [Dickens, Pickwick Papers].
Dowling, Captain : a great drunkard who dies tip-*/
[Crabbe, The Borough].
Downer, Billy : a porter, shoeblack and philosopher ; the
character from which the play takes its name [Selby,
Unfinished Gentleman].
Downright : a straightforward, honest, country squire
[Ben Jonson, Every Man in Hit Humour].
Dred : a runaway negro-slave living in the Dismal Swamp
[Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred ; later edition called
A'ina Gordon].
Dowsabel : the daughter of Sir Cassemen [Drayton,
Dotctabd}.
Doxy, Betty : the girl whom Captain Macheath advises to
' stick to good wholesome beer ' [Gay, Beggar'* Osrra\.
Drawcansir : a boasting bully who spares ' neither friend
nor foe ' [Duke of Buckingham, Itehcarsal].
Dreary, Wat : ' an irregular dog, with an underhand way
of disposing of hia goods ' [Gay, lieggar'i Opera}.
Drood, Edwin : left an orphan very young, with his future
bride selected for him by his father. The story was
never finished [Dickens, Mystery of Edwin Drood].
Dromio of Ephesns and o! Syracuse : twin brothers who
are attendants upon twins, an arrangement which
causes many complications [Shakespeare, Comedy o/
Errort].
Drugger, Abel : a tobacconist, a very innocent person, who
puts himself in the hands of Subtle the alchemist
[Ben Jonson, Tobacconist}.
Drugget : a wealthy haberdasher, one of whose daughters
has married a baronet.
• Mr*. : a wise and loving wife who humours her
husband's foibles [Murphy, Three Weeki A/ttr
Marriage].
Drum, the Laird o' : an old Scottish ballad celebrating tue
loves of Alexander Irvine and Margaret Coutts.
Drummle, Bentley : a disagreeable, ill-tempered m.iu,
a pupil of Mr. Pocket's, who married Miss Havishaiu'*
adopted daughter Eatella [Dickens, Great Expectation*}.
DRY 92 DUN
Drybob : a ridiculous sort of creature who trie* to pass
for a wit [Thomas Shadwell, Humorist].
Dryfesdale, Jasper : an old steward at Lochleyen Castle
who tries to poison Mary Stuart and her retinue [Scott,
The Abbot].
Dnbosc : a thief who robs the Lyons Mail [Stirling, Courier
of Lyont].
Dnbourg, Clement : a clerk in Osbaldistone's office.
Mont. : the father of Clement, a Bordeaux Mer
chant, and agent in that city for Mr. Osbaldistone
[Scott, ftob Hoy].
Dubrie, St. : Archbishop of the City of Legions, who set
the crown upon King Arthur's head [Alfred Tennyson,
Idylls of the King : Coming of Arthur].
Duchomar : in love with Morna, who loved Cathba ;
him he slew, then sued for MornaVhand again, but
she stabbed him to the heart [Ossian, Fingal}.
Dudley, Captain : a very poor though accomplished and
noble-minded English officer.
Charles : his son, in love with Charlotte Rusport.
Louisa : beloved by and, in the end, married to
Belcour, a wealthy West Indian [Cumberland, West
Indian}.
Dndu : one of the ladies in the harem [Byron, Don Juan].
Duessa : represents Falsehood, and is intended for Mary
Queen of Scots [Spenser, Faery Queenc].
Duioy : a French servant who supplies the motive to the
comedy ; his boastfulness and railings against women
induce some of them to fasten him into a tub
[Etherege, Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub].
Dumachus : the impenitent thief [Longfellow, Golden
Legend].
Dumaine : a French nobleman in the train of King Henry
of Navarre [Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost].
Dumbello, Lady : an aristocratic but mindless doll [Anthony
Trollope, Small House at Ailinglon].
Dumbiedikes, Old Laird of : a taciturn and obstinate old
Young Laird of : a bashful young man in love with
Jeanie Deans, who marries Keuben Butler [Scott,
Heart of Midlothian].
Duncan : the* meek ' king of Scotland, who was murdered
by Macbeth [Shakespeare, Macbeth].
Dunder, Lady : wife of Sir David ; a comfortable, homely
person, fond of cooking.
Sir David : the father of Harriet and Kitty ; a
whimsical old gentleman [Colman the Youngei Wayt
and Means].
DUN 93 EAS
Dundreary, Lord : a very indolent, very gentlemanly
noodle [Tom Taylor, Our American Coutin}.
Dnnrommath : the lord of Uthal, who carried ofl Oithon*,
the affianced bride of Gaul, and was slain by him in
revenge [Ossuts, Oithona,}.
Dunstane, Emma : an invalid ; the sympathetic friend of
Diana Warwick [George Meredith, Diana of (h« Cro»$-
wayt}.
Donthalmo : the lord of Tentha, who slew Rathmor whilst
he was banqueting [Ossian, Callhon and Colmal].
Dupely, Sir Charles : a man, who, priding himself on his
power of reading character, proposed to Lady Bab
Lardoon, a woman of fashion, thinking she was a simple
country girl [Burgoyne, Maid of the Oakt].
Dnpre : the servant of Mons. Darlemont [Holcroft, Deaf
and Dumb}.
Durance, Colney : a cynical, middle-aged, but loyal friend
of the Radnor* [George Meredith, One of our Con-
guerort}.
Durandarte and Belerma : the characters in a ballad which
first appeared in The Monk [Lewis, Durandarte and
Darazzo : a lively old man, full of fun. The guardian of
Caldoro [Massinger, The Guardian].
Durbeyfleld, Tess : she is seduced and then executed for
the murder of her seducer [Hardy, Test of the If Urber-
villet}.
Durden, Dame : the heroine of a popular glee.
Dame : the pet name for Esther Summeraon
[Dickens, Bleak Houte].
Duretete, Captain : a young man of a ponderous humour,
who is shy with ladies, but not so with maids [Far-
quhar, Inconstant}.
Durward, Qnentin : a young Scott who by much courage
and address made bis way at the Court of Franc*
[Scott, Quentin Durward].
Dusronnal : one of Cuthullin's two chargers, the other
being SuUn-Sifadda [Ossian, Fingal].
Duval, Dennis : the title of an unfinished novel by W. M.
Thackeray.
Earnes. Johnny : an amiable but weak character [Anthony
Trollope, Small House at Allingi'm].
Earine : a shepherdess with whom Eglamour was in love
[Ren Jonson, Sad Shepherd.
EarnscliiJ, Patrick : the youug laird [Scott, Black Dtcarr,-
Easy, Lady : his wife, who loving him dearly reforms his
character.
EAS 94 EDYV
Ea*n. Sir Charlm : resolved ' to follow no pleasure that
rises above the degree of amusement ' eo lazy was h«
[Gibber, Careless Husband].
Midshipman : the most popular of this author's
heroes ["Marryat, Midshipman Easy].
Ector de Maris, Sir : the brother of Sir Launoelot [MaUory,
History of Prince Arthur].
Edgar : the son of Gloucester and his legal heir, though
disinherited in favour of an illegitimate brother [Shake
speare, King Lear].
- the master of Ravens wood, who fell In love with
Lucy Ashton, who was forced by her father to inarry
the Laird of Bucklaw [Scott, Bride of Lammrrnvxn-].
Edging, Mistress : an indiscreet and mischief-making
waiting-woman [Gibber, Carelett Husband].
Edie OchUtree : tee Ochiltree, Edie.
Edith : the daughter of Baldwin, tutoi to the Dukes ol
Normandy [Beaumont, Bloody Brothi-r],
Lady : the mother of Athelstane the ' Unready ',
thane of Coningsburgb [Scott, Ivanhoe].
the ' maid of Lorn ', who after many vicissitudes
married Lord Ronald [Scott, Lord of the Isles].
Plantagenet, The Lady: married the Earl of
Huntingdon. She was a kinswoman of Richard land
waiting-woman to Queen Berengaria [Scott, Talisman],
Edmonton, Witch of : see Sawyer, Mother.
Edmund : a natural son of the Earl of Gloucester, in whose
favour Edgar was disinherited, and with whom both
Goneril and Regan were in love [Shakespeare, King
Lfar].
Edmunds, John : condemned to death for crime, but hie
sentence commuted to fourteen years' transportation.
The hero of ' The Convict's Return ' [Dickens, Pickwick
Papers].
Edom O'Gordon : a Scottish ballad founded on a true evp-it.
Edson. Ir a man who takes lodgings with Mrs. Lirriper
for himself and wife, and then deserts his wife [Dickens,
Mrs. Lirriper' 's Lodgings ; also Airs. Lirriper' 's Legacy].
Edward, Sir : .commits a murder, and having reason to
believe his secret known to his secretary, swears him to
secrecy [Colman the Younger, Iron Chett].
Edward : an oM Scottish ballad generally attributed to
Lady Wardlow.
Edwardea. Mr Murray : a friend of Hugh Flaxman's, who
first finds work for Robert Elsmcre in bis new snhf-re,
and after Robert's death carries out Robert's plans in
the East End of London [Mrs. Humphrey Ward,
Robert Elsmere].
FDW S5 EGL
Ldwin : despised by hie beloved, Edith, on account of
his misshapen body, the fairies come to bis reacne, and
he finally triumphs over his rival, Sir Topaz [Pamell,
Edwin of the Green : a Fairy Tale]
" the hero in a play in which are also represented tne
characters of St. Dunstan and Leolf [Sir Henry Taylor,
Edwin the Fair}.
a lovely, studious youth who dwelt in the ' North
eountrie' [BeatUe, The Minstrel}.
- and Elgitha : the hero and heroine of an unsuc
cessful tragedy [Fanny Burney, Edwin and ElrrUha}.
and Emma : the hero and heroine of a ballad
[Mallet, Kduin and Emma].
and Angelina : the hero and heroine of the ballad
[Goldsmith, The Hermit}.
——— of Deira : the subject of a long narrative poem
[Alexander Smith, Edwin of Deira].
Edyrn : son of Nudd, who tried to win^Enid for his wife,
and when he failed in this, did his best to ruin her
father [Alfred Tennyson, Idylli of the King : Geraint
and Enid}.
Eger, Sir : one of three heroes of an old English romance in
verse [-Sir Eger, Sir Grahams and Sir Qraysteel}.
Egerton, Audley : the rival of Henry L'Estrange for the
hand of Nora Avenel [Lytton, My Kovd}.
Egeua : the father of Hermia [Shakespeare, Midsummer
Xighf$ Dream}.
Egilona : the wife of Roderick the last of the Goths. She
afterwards married Abdal-Aziz, the Moorish Governor
of Spain [Southey, Roderick}.
Egla : a Moorish woman, servant of Amaranta [J. Fletcher,
Spanish Curate].
Eglamour : the person who helps the Duke of Milan'*
daughter, Silvia, to escape [Shakespeare, Two Gcnttt-
men of Verona}.
Sir, of Artois : the hero of an old English Romance
of which no French original has been discovered
[Arthurian Cycle}.
Sir : the hero of a humorous ballad [Rowlands,
printed in The Melancholic Knight}.
Eglantine, Madame : the prioress who spoke French ' after
the scole of Stratford-atte-Bow ', and who tells the
Prioress' Tale [Chaucer, Canterbury Talft}.
- a daughter of King Pepin and married to her cousin
Valentine [Valentine and Orion}.
Eglett, Lady Charlotte : the kindly sister of Lord Ormont
Strong-minded and full of character and common-
sense [George Meredith, Lord Ormont and Hit Aminta\.
ELA 98 ELS
Elaine : ' the lily maid of Astolat ', who loved Sir Launcelot
[Alfred Tennyson, Idyll* of (he King : Launcdot and
Elaine].
Elbow : a blundering, foolish constable [Shakespeare,
Measure jar Measure].
Heazar : a dreadful man, insolent and blood-thirsty
[Marlowe, Lust's Dominion}.
Elene : the subject of an ancient poem [attrib. Cynewulf,
Elene ; or. The Finding of the Cross}.
Elfrida : the heroine of a tragedy baaed on the Greek
model [Mason, Elfrida}.
Elidure : surnamed ' the pius ', one of the sons of Morvidus
[Drayton, Polyolbion}.
Elissa : the half-sister of Medina and Perissa [Spenser,
Faery Qutene].
Elizabeth : daughter of the King of Hungary, the heroine
[Charles Kingsley, Saints' Tragedy?.
Ella : the King of Northumberland, who married Custance
[Chaucer, Canterbury Tales : The Man of Lavft Tale].
Ellen : see Orson and Ellen.
Burd : she followed her betrayer as his page, and
gave birth to a son in a stable [Percy, Reliquet : Child
Waters}.
Elliot, Anne : the heroine of the story ; a refined and
womanly conception [Jane Austen, Persuasion}.
Hobbie : a farmer at Heugh-foot, and betrothed
to Grace Armstrong [Scott, Black Dwarf].
Elmore, Margaret : the daughter of Matthew, who has to
renounce her lover on account of her father's crime
[Lovell, Love's Sacrifice].
Eloisa : the heroine of a poem founded on the pathetic
story of Peter Abelard the priest and Heloisa, the niece
of Fulbert [Pope, Epistle from Eloisa to Abdurd}.
Elphin : a Welsh prince, who is the victim of numerous
misfortunes, but surmounts them at last [Peacock,
The Misfortunes of Elphin}.
Elpinus : the personification of Hope [Phineaa Fletcher,
Purple Island].
Elshender the Eecluse : known as * the Canny Elshi,'
or 'The Wise Wight of Mucklestane Moor1 [Scott,
Black Dwarf}.
Elsie : the daughter of a Bavarian farmer, who offered to
give her life to save that of Prince Henry of Hoheneck
[Longfellow, Oolden Legend].
Elsmere, Mrs : the generous, sympathetic, eccentric
Irish mother of Robert.
— — — Rnbart : a man of many enthusiasms and of in
tellectual strength, who begins life as a keen Church of
EL3 97 EMI
England rector, but resigns his office for conscience
sake [Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Robert Eltmere].
Elspat Lady : the heroine of an old ballad which tells how
Lady Elspat obtains the release of her lover, who ia
wrongfully imprisoned by her mother.
Elspeth, Anld : the servant of Dandle Dinmont [Scott, Qvy
AtanneHng].
- Old : of Craigburnloot, the mother of Saunders
Mucklebacket, and at one time in the service of the
Countess of Glenallan [Scott, Antiquary}.
Ebpie : in love with Philip [Clough, Bothie of Tober-na-
Hsworthy : the clerk of St. Koques, and uncle of Rosa.
- Rota : a pretty, vain, empty-headed girl, who is
betrayed by Tom Wodehouse [Mrs. Oliphant, Chronicle*
of Carling/ord: Perpetual Curate}.
Elton Mr. : a vulgar clergyman, who marries a still more
vulgar wife [Jane Austen, Emma}.
Elvira : the heroine of a play which is probably founded
on an old Spanish drama [Earl of Bristol, Elvira ; ort
The Want not Ahoayt True}.
- young and married to an old man ; she has an
intrigue with Lorenxo, who turns out to be her OWB
brother [Dryden, Spanish Fryar].
- married to Clodio, the son of Don Antonio [Gibber.
Love Make* a Man}.
- gives up all for the love of Pizarro, whom she tries
to influence for good, but in vain [Sheridan, Pizarro}.
Emilia : heroine of the same story as that of Palamon and
Arcite, which is introduced into U\e play [lieaumout
and Fletcher, Two Noble Kinsmen}.
• beloved by Palamon and Arcite [Chaucer, Canter
bury Tale* : The Knighfi Tale].
- a beautiful woman beloved by both Palamon and
Arcite [Dryden, Palamon and Arcite].
- in attendance on Hennione [Shakespeare, Wint>r'»
Tale].
- wife of lago and persuaded by him to secure the
handkerchief given by Othello to Dcsdemona. Upon
Desdemona'e death Emilia reveals the whole plot and
is killed by lago [Shakespeare, Othello].
- beloved by Peregrine [Smollett, Peregrine PieUe}.
Emily : betrothed to Colonel Tamper, whose duty sum
moned him to Havannah. On his return, to test
Emily's affection, he assumes lameness, from which
deceit many comic situations ensue [Colman the Eldt r,
The Deuce i* in Him}.
- the heroiue [Mrs. Radcliffe, Mytteriet of Cdolpho].
W.W.F. H
EMI 98 EPI
Emily, Little : the niece of Daniel Peggotty ; she is be
trayed and deserted by Bteerforth [Dickens, David
Copperfifld].
Emma : *ee Henry and Emma.
Plantagenet : ' the Saxon ', wife of David, King of
North Wales [Southey, 3/orfoc].
Em incline : a girl who for long labours under th« stigma
of illegitimacy ; this is removed and she enters upon
a large inheritance [Mrs. Charlotte Smith, Emmeline ;
or. The Orphan of the Cattle].
Erapedocles : a dramatic poem founded on the character
of the historical philosopher, lawgiver and physician
[Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna}.
Empson : flageolet-player to Charles H [Scott, PeverU of
the Peak].
Enanthe : the mistress of Prince Demetrius. She assumes
the name of Celia [Beaumont and FItetcher, Humorout
Lieutenant].
Endell. Martha : a poor girl through whom Little Emily
is restored to her family [Dickens, David Copperfield].
Enderby, Mrs. : mother of Mrs. Rowland and Philip
Enderby.
Philip : the lover of Margaret Abbotson [Harriet
Martineau, Deerbrook].
Endless : a scamp of a lawyer [Hoare, Ko Song, no Supper].
Endymion : a youth who fell in love with Diana, the
Moon [John Keats, Endymion]. Many authors have
chosen Endymion as their subject, and Lord Beacons-
field published a novel by that name.
Eneas, the Wandering Prince ol Troy : an old English
ballad founded on the story told by Virgil [Percy,
Rdiquet : Queen Dido ; or, The Wandering Prince of
Troy}.
Enfleld, Mrs. : the mistress of a house of ill-fame [Holcroft,
Deserted Daughter].
Engelred : the squire of Sir Reginald Front de Boeuf
[Scott, Ivanhot].
Enguerrand : a crusader, and the brother of the Marquis
Enid : the daughter of Yniol, and hardly-used wife of
Geraint. A type of spotless purity [Alfred Tennyson,
Idyllt of the King : Geraint and Enid].
Enooh Arden : ire Arden, Enoch.
Epicene : the ' silent woman ' who, after her marriage,
suddenly turns into a termagant and then proves to
be a boy [Ben Jonson, Epicene],
Epinogris, 6ir : son of the King of Northumberland
[Malory, History of Prince Arthur].
EPP 93 ESP
Eppta : the litUe child adopted by Silas Marner, the weaver.
She grows up and marries Aaron [George Eliot, SUat
llarner}.
the name of ons of Josiah Cargill's servants, and
also that of one at the Mowbray Amu [Scott, St.
Ronan't Weil].
Ereok : a Knight of the Round Table wedded to Enite
[Arthurian Cycle].
Ereenia : a beneficent ' spirit ' or ' glendoveer ' [Southey,
Curie oi Kehama}.
Erictho : a witch [Marston, The Wonder of Women ; or,
Sophonuba].
Erfllyab : the deposed Queen of the Hoamen, an Indian
tribe dwelling on the Missouri [Southey, if odor].
Ernast de Fridberg : the prisoner in the fortress of Giant's
Mount, whose escape is contrived by his daughter
Ulrica [Stirling, Pritoner of State}.
Eromena : the heroine of a prose version of Chamberlayne's
poem entitled rharronida [Eromena; or, The Noble
Stranger].
Erota : a beautiful princess, beloved by Philander, Prince
of Cyprus [Beaumont and Fletcher, Lam of Candy}.
Erragon : the King of Lora [Ossian, Battle of Lara}.
Error : a female monster who dwelt in ' Wandering Wood ',
who was slain by the Red Cross Kuight [Spenser,
Faery Queene].
Errua : a legendary hero, whose superior wit enables him
to pass triumphantly through mauy adventures
Esealus : a noble at the Court of the Duke of Vienna
[Shakespeare, Measure for Measure}.
Prince of Verona [Shakespeare, I?om<o and Juliet].
Escanes : a Tyrian noble at the Court of Pericles [Shake
speare, Periclet, Prinre of Tyre],
Escot, Mr. : ' the deterioralionist ' ; an eccentric member
of the house-party at Squire Headlong's [Peacock,
Headlong Hall}.
Esher, Sir Ralph : the hero of the novel [Leigh Hunt, Sir
Ralph Either].
Eskdale, Lord : supposed to b« intended for Lord Lonsdale
[Beaconafleld, Coning tby}.
Esmond, Henry : a cavalier in the reign of Queen Anne,
who is deprived of his rightul inheritance, and after
wards voluntarily relinquishes it and eiiiiRratrstoVirginia
with his wife, Lady Castlewood [Thackeray, Esmond}.
Espriella : the reputed author of some imaginary letters
supposed to have been written by a Spaniard [Southey,
Lettcri from £nylan'i].
ETE 100 EUP
Etelia : the adopted daughter of Miss Havisham, and the
heroine of the story [Dickens, Great Expectation*}.
Estemere : King of England, the hero of an ancient legend
[Percy, Religues : King Estemere}.
Esther : housekeeper to ifuhldenau and in lore with Hans,
a fellow servant [Knowles, Maid of Mariendorpt}.
Estifania : a low-class woman who palms herself off as an
heiress [J. Fletcher, Kule a Wife and Have a \f »/«].
Estmere : tee Estemere.
Estrildis ; daughter of the Emperor of Germany and
captured in war by Locrin, King of Britain [Drayton,
Polyolbion}.
Ethelinda : the heroine of the novel [Mrs. Charlotte Smith.
Lthdinda}.
EUarre : beloved by Pelleas she rejects him for Gawain
[Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the Kyig : P&tat and
EUarre}.
Euarchus : this is supposed to be a portrait of the poet's
father [Sidney, Arcadia}.
Eubulus : one of the characters in the play [Morton and
Buckhurst, Gorboduc}.
Eudocia : daughter of the Governor of Damascus [John
Hughes, Siege of Damascus}.
Eudon, Count : a partisan of the Moor, whose chief, how
ever, ordered his head to be struck off [Southey,
Roderick}.
Eudoxia : wife of the Emperor Valentinian [Beaumont and
Fletcher, Valentinian}.
Eugene Aram : tee Aram, Eugene.
Eugenia : the wife of Count Valmont and the mother of
Florian.the 'foundling' [Dimon<l,Foundling of the Forest}.
Eugenie : the witty but penniless uephew of llorose [Ben
Jonson, Epicene ; or, Silent Woman].
;enius : supposed to be a portrait of John Hall Steven
son, a friend of the author [Sterne, Life and Opiniont
of Tristram Shandy].
Eumenes : Governor of Damascus, the father of Eudocia
[John Hughes, Siege of Damascus}.
Eumnestes : the personification of Memory [Spenser,
Faery Queene]
Eupiirasia : daughter of Lord Dian, in love with Philaster
[Beaumont and Fletcher, Philaster ; or, Love Lies
Bleeding}.
represents the authoress [Clara Reeve, Progress of
Romance}.
• the daughter of Evander, the King of Syracuse.
She rescued her aged father from starvation by feeding
him from her own breast [Murphy, Grecian Daughter}.
EUP 101 EVE
Euphues : a young Athenian, who after a life of pleasure
In Italy returns home convinced of the vanity of life
[Lily, Suphnet].
Eorytion : a man who never slept either by night or day,
but wandered about amongst his herds with his two-
headed dog, Orthros [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Eustace : an attendant on Sir Beginald Front de Boeuf
[Scott, Ivanhoe].
Charles : secretly married and concealing his wife
in a friend's room. This leads to misconstruction
[Poole, Scapegoat}.
Father : the Abbot of St. Mary's [^Monastery].
Jack : a young man who obtains access to the girl
he loves by assuming the guise of a music master
[Bickerstaff, Love in a Village].
— — — Lady : an opulent and aristocratic Becky Sharp
[Anthony Trollope, Eustace Diamonds].
Eva : the daughter of a slave-owner and beloved by her
father's slaves [Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom't
Cabin].
the daughter of Torquil of the Oak [Scott, Fair
llaid of Perth].
Evadne : the wife of Amintor, who married her by order
of the King although he was betrothed to Aspasia
[Beaumont and Fletcher, Maid's Tragedy],
— — the sister of Colonna, betrothed to Vicentio, whom,
after many trials, she marries [Shiel, Evadne; or
The Statue].
Evandaie, Lord : in the Duke of Monmouth's army. One
of Edith Bellenden's -suitors [Scott, Old Mort<a.-
i*y].
Evander : the King of Syracuse, who was superseded by
Dionysius the Younger [Murphy, Grecian DauglUer}.
Evangeline : the daughter of Benedict BellefoDtaine and
betrothed to Gabriel Lajeuneese. The story is founded
on the expatriation of the French colonists from
Nova Scotia [Longfellow, Evangcline}.
Evangelist : the personification of a successful preacher
[Bunyan, Puyrim'i Progress].
Evaai, Sir Hugh : a Welsh parson and schoolmaster
[Shakespeare, Iterry Wives of Windsor].
William : a giant in the service of Charles I, as
porter [Scott, Pevcru of the Peak].
Evanthe : wife of Valeric. The Duke of Naples attempt*
her virtue but without avail [J. Fletcher, Wife for a
Month].
Evelina : the heroine, who marries Lord Orville [Fanoy
Burney, Evelina].
EVE 102 FAQ
Evelyn, Alfred : loves Clara Douglas, who returns his
affection, but, on the score of poverty they are unable
to marry. An immense fortune becomes his and
alters the complexion of affairs [Lytton, Money].
- Hope : see Hope, Evelyn.
- Sir George : a man of fortune and noble character,
who marries Maria Dorrillon [Mrs. Inchbald, Wives at
They Were and Maids as They Arc}.
Evir-Allen : the daughter of Branno and sought by many.
She was the mother of Oscar, Fingal's grandson [Osaian,
Fingal}.
Evremonde, Marquis d' : the uncle of Charles Darnay
[Dickens, Tale, of Tiro Citi**}.
Ewain, Sir : the son of King Vrience and Morgan le Fay
[Mallory, Ilutory of Prince Arthur],
Ewart, Nanty : captain of the smuggler's boat [Scott,
Excalibur : King Arthur's mystic sword [Alfred Tennyson,
Idytts of the King : Coming of Arlnur].
Eyre, Jane : a governess who wrestles bravely against
heavy odds and at last marries Mr. Rochester, a very
' strenuous ' hero [Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre].
Ezechias : a play founded upon the Second Book of Kings
[Udall, Ezechiat].
Ezzelin, Sir : the knight who, at Lord Otho's table recog
nizes Conrad the Corsair, in Lara. A duel is the result,
and Ezzelin is never more seen [Byron, Lara],
Fa«. Gabriel : a huntsman, and the nephew of Meg Merrl-
lies [Scott, Guy Mannering}.
Fabian : one of Olivia's servants [Shakespeare, Twelfth
Fabritio : a soldier ; the friend of Captain Jacomo [Beau
mont and Fletcher, The Captain}.
Face : Lovewlt's manservant, who tampers with alchemy
and fortune-telling during his master's absence from
home [Ben Jonson, Alchemist],
Faddle, William : a penniless ne'er-do-well [Edward Moore,
Foundling}.
Fadladeen : chamberlain to Aumngzebe's harem — very
bombastic [Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh].
Fadladinida : wife of King Chrononhotonthologos [Carey,
Chrononhotontholooo*}.
Fag : Captain Absolute's steward, who ' scruples not to
tell a lie at his master1* command, but it pains his
conscience to be found out ' [Sheridan, Rival*}.
Faggot, Nicholas : Matthew Foxley the Magistrate'*
clerk [Scott,
FAG 133 FAL
Faggus, Tom : a highwayman, and the cousin of John
Ridd [Blackmore, Lorna Doone}.
Fagin : an old Jew who trains thieves and lives upon
their spoils [Dickens, Oliver Twitt}.
Fainall, Mr. and Mrs. : a couple who lead a cat and .leg
life together, each trying to over-reach the other
[Congreve, Way of the World].
Fainasolis : daughter of the King of Shetland, who fled
to Fingal for protection against Sora. Bora shot her
with an arrow [Oasiau, Finyal, m.].
Fair Maguelone : tee Magalona, The Fair.
Maid ol Perth : tee Glover, Catherine.
Maid ol the Exchange : [Thomas Heywood, The
Fair Maid ol the Exchange, with the Merry Humour t
and Pleatant Postages of The Cripple of Fenchurch,
Furnithed with a Variety of Delectable Mirth].
Margaret and Sweet William : an old ballad.
Penitent, The : tee Calista.
Fairbrother, Mr. : counsel for Effle Deana at her trial
[Scott, Heart of Midlothian].
Fairfax, Jane : a young governess, clever but very poor,
who marries Mr. Frank Churchill [Jane Austen, Emrn-i ;.
Fairfleld : the father of Patty, 'the maid of the mill'.
Patty: the miller's daughter, the heroine, aitt-r
whom the play is named.
« Ralph : an ignorant booby, jealous of his sister's
superior mind, and in love with Fanny, a gipsy
[Bickerstaflf, Maid of the MM].
Leonard : beginning life as a literary hack, he
developes into an eminent author [Lytton, My Xovtl\.
Fairford, Mr. Saunders : a lawyer ; the father of Allan.
Allan : the friend of Darcy Latiiner, whose sister
he marries [Scott, Redgaunttet].
Fairleigh, Frank : the hero of a novel, and the name under
which ita author wrote when editor of the Londi,^
Magazine [Srnedley, Frank Fairleigh].
Fairservice, Andrew : the self-seeking and humorous
gardener at Osbaldistone Hall [Scott, Rob Ilo'j].
Faithful : Christian's travelling comiwmion on his way to
the Celestial City [Bunyan, Pilgrim' » Proyritt].
Jacob : the hero of a nautical story [Marryut,
Jacob FaiUtful].
Faithless Sally Brown : tee Brown, Sally.
Nelly Gray : tee Gray, Nelly.
Falconer, Major : the brother of Lady Bothwell [Scott,
Aunt Margaret's Mirror].
• Mr. : a friend of the old baron of Brad wartime
[Scott, Wavcrley].
FAL 104 FAR
Falconer, Mr. : a serious, eccentric, good-hearted young
man [Peacock, Gryll Orange].
Mrs. : a rugged Scottish Caivinlst [Macdonald,
Robert Falconer].
Faliero, Marino : the hero of the drama ; a Venetian doge
[Byron, Marino Faliero}.
Falkland : the most interesting character in the book.
A good man goaded on to commit a murder, the memory
of which ruins his whole subsequent life [Godwin,
Caleb WQliams].
— — the hero of this author's first novel, which he after
wards withdrew from publication [Lytton, Falkland].
Falsetto, Signor : the ' fine weather" friend ' of Fazio
[Milman, Fazio].
Falstaff, Sir John : the boon companion of Prince Hall,
witty, unprincipled, and a coward [Shakespeare, Merry
Wives o1 Windsor and Henry IV; also the hero of
Original Lcttrrt of Sir John Falstaff and His friends,
by James White : and of the Comical Gallant ; or,
The Amours of Sir John Falstaff, by John Dennis].
Fanciful, Lady : a vain beauty who flirts with Heartfree
until her affectations alienate him from her [Vanbrugh ,
Provoked Wife].
Fan-Fan : the maker of sweet stuffs who makes love to
Cliristine, maid to the Countess Marie [Stirling,
Prisoner of State].
Fancy, Sir Patient : the hero of the comedy [Aphra Behn,
Sir Patient Fancy].
Fang : a sheriffs officer [Shakespeare, Eenry IV, pt. 11.].
Mr. : the magistrate who was upon the point of
wrongfully convicting Oliver when Mr. Brownlow
intervened on his behalf [Dickens, Oliver Twist],
Fanny : the heroine [Fielding, Joseph Andrews].
Miss : daughter of a wealthy merchant ; she
secretly marries Lovewell [Colman and Garrick,
Clandestine Marriage],
Fardarongha : a miser in whom the tenderer instincts are
still alive [Carleton, Fardarougha the Miser ; or, Tht
Convicts of Lisnamona].
Farebrother, the Rev Camden : an unpopular rector
[George Eliot, Middlcmarch].
Farina : the hero of the book bearing that name [Georg*
Meredith, Farina].
Farintosh, Beau : a society fop [Robertson, Schooll
Marquis of : aspired to the hand of Ethel New-
come [Thackeray, The Newcomes],
Farrell, Aminta : known as ' Browny '. She marries Lord
Onnont, who is many years her senior, and who
FAR 105 FAU
neglects her, with the result that she elopes with
Weyburn [George Meredith, Lord Ormont and Hit
Aminta].
Fashion , Sir Brilliant : a man who does everything he i§
called upon to do with a fashionable air [Murphy,
Way to Keep Him].
Sir Hovelty : the hero of this comedy, who in
Vanbrugh's Relapie (its sequel) appears as Lord
Foppington [Gibber, Love't Last Shift].
. Tom (' Young ') : a younger brother of Sir Novelty
Fashion (Lord Foppington), whom he supplants as
the lover of Miss Hoyden the heiress [Vanbrugh, The
Relapte ; Sheridan, Trip to Scarborough].
Fastolle, Sir John : lieutenant-general of the Duke of
Bedford, not to be confounded with Sir John Falstafl
the ' fat knight ' [Shakespeare, Benry VI, pt. i.].
Fastrada ; the daughter of Count Rodolph and one of
Charlemagne's nine wives [Longfellow, Golden Legend].
Fat Boy : his real name was Joe. He divided his time
between sleeping and eating, but contrived to see
more than he was meant to see [Dickens, Pickwick
Papcrt].
Fata Morgana : a sort of fairy who dwelt at the bottom of
a lake ; the reputed sister of King Arthur [Arthurian
Cycle].
Fathom, Ferdinand, Count : an utter villain, whom the
author depicted as ' a beacon for the benefit of the
inexperienced and unwary ' [Smollett, Adventure* of
Ferdinand, Count Fathom].
Fatima : the mother of Prince Camaralzaman [Arabian
A'iyhti].
a holy Chinese woman who lived in seclusion and
healed the sick. A magician won her secrets from her,
murdered her, and then dressing up to repr
got access to Aladdin, who, divining his trick, slew him
[Arabian Jfiyhti].
• the last of all Bluebeard's wives, who was saved
by the timely arrival of her brothers at Bluebeard's
castle [Perrault, Contes de Ftes].
Faulconbridge, Philip : a natural son of Richard I, of
generous temper, but hating all ' foreigners ' [Shake
speare, King John].
Faulkland : the morbid.
worrying lover of Julia Melville
[Sheridan, Rivali].
Fauntleroy, Lord : a little child, bom In America, who,
coming to England, charms away the melancholy and
fierceness of his grandfather, to whose title he is heir
{Frances II. Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy].
FAU 106 FEN
a famous magician who sold his soul to the
devil on condition that during twenty -four years
he might enjoy himself unconditionally [Marlowe,
TrafficaU Hillary of Doctor Fauttvt}.
Fawnia : the heroine [Greene, Pandotto ; or, Triumph of
Time}.
Fax, Mr. : ' the champion of calm reason, the indefatigable
explorer of the cold clear springs of knowledge '
[Peacock, Melineourt}.
Fazio : a Florentine, condemned to death for aiding at
the death of Bartoldo, a miser, whose money he stole
[Milman, Fazio],
Featherstone, Peter : an old man, a miser, whose chief
delight consisted in tormenting his would-be heirs
[George Eliot, Middlemarch].
Featherstonhaugh : the subject of a ballad, which was
palmed off, by its author, upon Sir W. Scott as
medlieval [Surtees, Death of Featherslonhauyh].
Fedalma : the heroine, daughter of a gipsy chief and
beloved by a Spanish noble [George Eliot, Spanith
Feeble, Francis : one of Sir John Falstaffs recruits, a
miserable, half-starved woman's tailor [Shakespeare,
Henry IV, pt. ii.].
Feeder, Mr. : Dr. Blimber's usher, who marries Miss Dum
ber and takes over the school [Dickens, Dombey and
Son}.
Feenix Cousin : an old ' buck ', and the nephew of Mrs.
Skewton [Dickens, Dombey and Son].
Feign well, Colonel : the suitor for Anne Lovely's hand,
who at last obtained the consent of all her four guar
dians [Mrs. Ceutlivre, Bold. Stroke for a Wife}.
Felician, Father : the priest and schoolmaster of Grand
Pre [Longfellow, Evanydine}.
Felix : the monk who for a hundred years listened to
the song of a milk-white bird [Longfellow, Golden
Legend}.
- Don : a Portuguese nobleman who loved Violante
[Mrs. Centlivre, The Wonder\.
- Holt : tee Holt, Felix.
Fell, Alice : the motive of a ballad [Wordsworth, Alice
FeU ; or, Poverty].
Feltham, Black : a highwayman [Scott, Fortunes of Nigd}.
Feneila : a girl who, that she may be a more effectual spy,
pretends to be deaf and dumb. She is the daughter
of Edward Christian [Scott, Perevil of the Peak].
Fenellan, Dartrey : the chivalrous friend of the Badnors,
who marries Nesta Victoria.
FEN 107 FER
FeneBan, Simeon : a wit. The friend of Victor Radnor and
brother of Dartrey Fenellaa [George Meredith, One
of Our Conqueror*}.
Fenton : suitor of ' sweet Anne Page ' [Shakespeare, Merry
Wivet oi Windtor].
Feramorz : the name assumed by the Cashmere prince when
he disguises himself as a minstrel [Thomas Moore,
LaUa Rookh}.
Ferda : son of Damman and friend of Cathullin, general
of the Irish army under Cormac I [Ossian, Fingal, ii.J.
Ferdinand : a Spaniard in love with Leonora [Jephson, Tmo
titrinjs to Tour Bow].
the son of Alonso, King of Naples, who ia in love
with Miranda [Shakespeare, Tempest}.
King of Navarre [Shakespeare, Love't Labmu't
Lott}.
Count of Calabria, brother of the Duchess [Webster,
Duchiss of Mcafi.}.
— Don : in love with Clara, the daughter of Don
Guzman [Sheridan, Duenna}.
Fern, Will : a kindly, honest man who tried to live a good
life in the face of heavy odds [Dickens, Chime*].
Fernando : a Venetian Captain in the service of Annophel
[Beaumont and Fletcher, Lati.-t of Candy}.
- married to Isoline, and on the night of then" marriage
slain in the massacre of the Sicilian Vespers [Knowles,
John of Proeida}.
a man who is persuaded that he has experienced
death, burial, and the torments of purgatory [Southerne,
Fatal Marriage}.
Fernandyne : the original character from which that of
Jacques was drawn [Shakespeare, As You Like Jt}.
Ferragus : the giant who protected BeUisant after her
separation from Alexander, Emperor of Constanti
nople [ Valentine and Orson}.
Ferrar, Nicholas : founder of a religious society in Little
Gidding [Shorthouse, John Inglftant}.
Farrardo Gonzaga : a rillain who tried to raise up strife
between Leonardo, Duke of Mantua, and his wife
Mariana [Knowles, The Wife}.
Ferrars, Edward : lover, and afterwards husband, of Elinor
Daahwood.
Robert : an empty-headed coxcomb, the brother
of Edward Ferrars [Jane Austen, Sente and Sensi
bility].
Ferraagh, Sir : he who carried off the lady of snow and
wax, the false Florimel, from Braggadoccio [Spenser,
faery
FER 108 FID
Ferret : a backbiter and slanderer [Cherry. Soldier'i
DauglUer}.
• Level's most efficient, qnick-wittsd •erv&nt [Ben
Jonson, New Inn].
- a morose, surly, silent Ban [Smollett, Sir Launce-
lot Greavet].
Ferrej : tee Gorboduc.
Ferroll, Paul : in love with Elinor Ladylift He is parted
from her through the machinations of Laura Chanson,
whom he marries. On discovering her duplicity he
murders her [Mrs. Archer Clive, Why Paul FerroU
EiUed hit Wife].
Fernmbras, Sir : tee Fierabras.
Feste : Olivia's Jester, gifted with a fine voice, a fertile
wit, and a great love of money [Shakespeare, Twelfth
Festus : meant for the presentment of a soul ' gifted ',
'beguiled', 'stricken', and 'purified' [Bailey,
Fettut], •
- the friend of Paracelsus, before he started on his
quest [R. Browning, Paracflsut].
Fetnab : the favourite of Haroun-al-Rasckid [Arabian
Sibils}.
Feverel, Richard : son of Sir Austin ; he casts his father's
theories aside and marries Lucy Desborough. How
ever, he again falls under their influence, and leaves
his wife for a time, with bitter consequences.
- Sir Austin : the father of Richard Feverel. He
tries to bring him up on a ' system ' with disastrous
results [George Meredith, Ordeal of Richard Feverd}.
Fezon : daughter of the Duke of Aquitaine, she whom the
Green Knight desired to marry ; but Orson overthrew
the Green Knight and married Fezon himself [Valen
tine and Orion].
Fidele : the name under which Imogen set out on he*
journey to Milford Haven [Shakes peare, Cymbeline].
Fidelia : the heroine of a story published in NOB. 77, 78
and 79 of the Adventurer in 1753 [Hester Chapone,
Fidelia].
- her real name was Harriet Raymond ; she was
motherless and the woman to whose care he was com
mitted sold her to one Villiard, and informed her
father of her death. In the end the treachery was
revealed and Harriet married to Sir Charles Belmont
[Edward Moore, Foundling].
- in love with Manly, whom she follows in the dis
guise of a boy [Wycherley, Plain Ltaier\
HO 109 FIR
Fidessa : the companion of Sansfoy, the ' faithless Saracen '.
Fidessa was really Duessa, the daughter of Falsehood
and Shame [Spenser, Fairy Queene].
Pido : the personification of Faith [Phlneaa Fletcher,
Purple Mono}.
Fielding, Mary : engaged to Edward Plummer, whom,
after many crosses in their love, she marries.
Mn. : the mother of Mary, a peevish woman,
much s«t upon her own dignity [Dickens, Cricket on
the Hearth}.
Fferabras, Sir : a Saracen who slew the giant who guarded
the thirty-arched bridge of Mantible.
Fiflne : th« gipsy who attracU Don Juan [Browning,
Fifine at the Fair).
Figaro: the lover of Susan, the Countess Almaviva's
waiting woman [Holcroft, Follies of a Day].
Filch : a very skilful pickpocket, whom Mrs. Peachum
declares will ' be a great man in history ' if he is not
hung first [Gay, Beggar'* Opera}.
Filer : a ' lean and hungry ' man, devoted to statistics
[Dickens, Chime*}.
Fillan : the son of Fingal and Clatho, the moat artistically
drawn character in the poem [Ossain, Temora].
Fillpot, Toby : he ' among jolly topers bore off the bell '
[Fawkes, Toby Fillpot}.
Filomena, Santa : intended for Florenc« Nightingale
[.Longfellow, Santa Filomena}.
Fincbing, Mrs. Flora : a wealthy widow of middle age,
too voluble, but good - hearted [Dickens, Little
Dorrit}.
Findlayson, C. B. : a plucky engineer [Kipling, Bridge
Builders}.
Fingal : the son of Comhal ; he was King of Morven, on
the North-West Coast of Scotland. His soldiers were
called Feni, and it is after them the Feniant were
named [Ossian, Fingal}.
Finney, Mr. : the attorney who acted for John Bold in his
crusade against vested interests hi Barchester [Anthony
Trollope, The Warden].
Fion : a stupendous giant celebrated in Gaelic song.
Fionnuala : daughter of Lir, who was changed into a swan,
which haunted the lakes and rivers of Ireland [Thomas
Moore, Irish Melodies : Sony of Fionnuala].
Fipl : old Martin Chuzzlewit's agent, who engages Tom
Pinch as librarian [Dickena, Martin Chuzzi>-wti}.
Firour Schah : son and heir of the King of Persia, who owned
a magic horse which would carry him anywhere instan
taneously {Arabian Nights].
ns 110 FLE
Fisk : intended for Nicholas Flak [Butler, Hudibras].
Fitzborn : supposed to be intended for Sir Robert Peel
[Beaconsfleld, Vivian Gray}.
Fitz-both : Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, in love with
Marian, the heroine [Peacock, Maid Marion].
Fitzdottrel : selfish, cunning, conceited, from a simple
Norfolk squire he changes into an impostor [Ben Jonson,
DerO it an Ass}.
Fitz-Fulke, The Duchess of : a ' graceful, graceless grace '
[Byron, Don Juan].
Fitzpatrick, Mrs. : one of the characters in the novel
[Fielding, Tom Jones].
Fitzurse, Lord Waldemar : one of Prince John of Anjou'f
suite [Scott, Icanhoe].
Fladdock, General : an American much devoted to titles.
[Dickens, Idartin Chuzzlewit].
Flagon, Moll : a low camp follower. The part being unfit
for a woman to play Liston used to take it [Burgoyne,
Lord of the Manor].
Flaaiberge : the sword taken from Anthenor, the Saracen,
by Maugis [Romance of Mauyu fAygremont et de
Viwm son Frere\
Flamborough, Solomon : a neighbour of the Primrose
family — a fanner.
The Mitsts : Solomon's daughters — honest, homely
girls [Goldsmith. Vicar of Wakefield].
Flammer, The Hon. Mr. Frisk : a young Cantab of small
means and large requirements [Selby, Unfinished
Gentleman].
Flammock, Rose : daughter of Wilkin. She waited on
Lady Eveline.
Wilkin : a soldier at the Castle of Garde Doloureuse
[Scott, Betrothed].
Flanders, Moll : of great beauty, but of blemished reputa
tion [Defoe, Fortunes of iJoU Flanders].
Flash, Captain : a coward, and a boaster [Garrick, Mist in
Jfer Teens].
Sir Petronel : an adventurer who wishes to leave
the city for the wilds of Virginia [Chapman, Marston
and Jonson, Eattvxnrd Bo I].
Flaw : one of the Cozeners [Foote, Cozeners].
Flazman, Hugh : a liberal-minded young aristocrat who
ultimately marries Rose Leyburn [Mrs. Humphrey
Warde, Robert Elsmere].
Fleance : the son of Banquo. He escaped to Wales and
there married a Welsh princess, and from tln-Tii we re
descended the royal House of Stuart [Shakespeare,
Macbtth].
FLE 111 FU
Ffedgeby, Mr. : a foolish young dandy, nicknamed ' Fas
cination Fledgeby ' by his friends [Dickens, Our
Mutual Friend}.
Fleecebumpkin : Sir. Ireby's bailiff [Scott, Two Drover i].
Fleeceem, Mrs. : intended for a Mrs. Rudd, who was a
woman of evil reputation [Foote, Cozenert].
Fleetwood : the hero of the novel [Godwin, Fleetwood ; or,
New Man of Feeling}.
Earl of : a wealthy and pampered young nobleman,
who, in a moment of impulse, engages himself to
Carinthia Kirby. He marries her, then deserts her.
When he afterwards tries to win her back he fails, and
so becomes a monk [George Meredith, Amazing Mar-
rtage}.
Fleming, Agnes : the mother of Oliver Twist [Dickens,
Oliver Ticist}.
Archdeacon : the clergyman to whom Meg Mur-
dochson confessed [Scott, Heart oi Midlothian}.
— — Dahlia : the pretty daughter of a Kentish farmer.
She goes to London on a visit to her uncle, Anthony
Hackbut, and gets led away by Edward Blancore.
She is rescued by her sister.
Farmer : the stern but really tender-hearted father
of Rhoda and Dahlia Fleming.
• Khoda : the sister of Dahiia. A simple, strong-
hearted girl. She eventually marries Robert Arm
strong [George Meredith, Khoda Fleming].
• Lady Mary : Mai<l of Honour to Mary Queen of
Scots [Scott, The Abbot].
• Sir Malcolm : at one time a suitor for the hand of
Lady Margaret de Hautlieu (Cattle Danqerovt}.
• Rose : generally kno^n as Rose Maylie, q.v.
•• Paul : in this narrative poem the hero, being
disconsolate through the death of a fri^n.l, war..lci.->
from country to country for years, until he at last
finds comfort in some words he sees graven on a tablet
in a tiny chapel [Longfellow, Hyperion],
Flibbertigibbet : the fiend that ' snuints the eye and makes
the hare-lip ', etc., etc. [Shakespeare, King Lear].
• the grandson of Gammer Sludge. He acts the
part of imp in the entertainment at Kenilworth [Scott,
Kenilworlh}.
Flimnap : theTremier of Lilliput [Swift, Voyage to LiUi^ut}.
Flint, Lord : Minister of State to an Indian Sultan [Mrs.
InchKil.l, Such Thing* Are}.
— — — Sir Clement : an old bachelor, who, whilst professing
disbelief in human nature, finds his owr happiness in
doing kindly acts [Burgoyne, The Hcirett}.
FU 112 FLO
Flint, Solomon : a rich old miser, a • fusty, shabby,
money-loving, water-drinking, mirth-marring, amorous
old hunk ' [Foot*, Maid of Bath\.
Flintwinch, ASery : an old servant of Mrs. Clennam's who
married Jeremiah Flintwinch.
— — Jeremiah : first Mrs. Clennam's servant, later her
partner [Dickens, Little Dorrit],
Flip : a drunken commodore [Charles Shadwell, Fair
Quaker of Deal}.
Flippant, Lady : a widow on the look-out for a second
husband [Wycherley, Love in a Wood].
Flippanta : a maidservant of Clarissa's, who aids and
abets her in her follies [Vanbrugh, Confederacy}.
and Lissardo : two servants — one a maid in love,
the other a man, puffed up with vanity [Mrs. Centi-
livre, The Wonder}.
FMte, Mis« : a little half-crazed womjJn who haunts the
Court of Chancery [Dickens, Bleak ffoute}.
Flockheart, Widow : the landlady of the rooms in the
Canongate where the Baron of Bradwardine, Waverley
and M'lvor dine [Scott, Waverley].
Flora : Donna Violante's maid [Mrs. Centlivre, The Wonder].
niece of Farmer Freehold. Her beauty attracts
Heartwell, and she marries him [Kemble, Farm-Home}.
Florae, The Comte de : an impecunious but light-hearted
Frenchman [Thackeray, The Neweomet].
Floranthe, Donna : the lady to whom Octavian loses hia
heart [Colman the Younger, Octavian].
Florentine or Florent : a knight who promises to wed an
old hag on condition that she tells him the answer to a
riddle, on the solution of which his life depends [Gower,
Confettio Amantit].
Floreski, Count : a Pole who loves and wins Lodoiaka
[Kemble, Lodoiska}.
Florez : the son of Gerrard, the king of the beggars. He
enters trade and become a wealthy merchant in
Bruges, and marries Bertha, the supposed daughter
of the Burgomaster [J. Fletcher, Beggar't Buih}.
Florian : discovered and adopted by the Count de Valmont.
Klorian charms all who know him and marries Geniidine,
De Valmont's ward [Dimond, Foundling of the Forest],
Floribel: the heroine of the tragedy [Keddoes.Bride's Tragedy].
Florimel : the personification of Grace and Chastity
[Spenser, Faery Queene].
Florinda : the heroine of the tragedy [Shiel, Apottate}.
daughter of Count Julian. Violated by Boderick,
Count Julian revenged the injury to his daughter by
driving Koderick from the throne [Soutiiey, Koderidc}.
FLO 113 FON
Florio John : tee Holofernes.
Florival, Mdlle. : the daughter of a French doctor. She
fell in love with Major Belford [Colman the Elder,
Deuce it in Sim],
Florlzel : the son of Polixenes, King of Bohemia, whc
fell in love with Perdita.whom he married [Shakespeare
Winter's Tale}.
Flosky, Mr : a transcendentalist, said to have been in
tended for S. T. Coleridge [Peacock, Nightmare Abbey],
Ftowerdale, Sir John : the father of the heroine, and a
friend of Colonel Oldboy [Bickerstaff, Lionel and
Clarista].
Fluellen : a pedantic, hot-tempered Welsh captain, full ol
valour and very faithful [Shakespeare, Henry V].
Flor : the bride of Cassivelaun, with whom Caesar was in
love [Alfred Tennyson, IdyUi o/ the King : Geraini and
Enid].
Flute : the bellows-mender who plays the part of Thisbe
[Shakespeare, Midsummer Ni'jkt't Dream].
Flatter : a silly, effeminate fop whom no one regarded
[Mrs. Cowley, BeUe't Stratagem].
Sir Fopling : this character is said to have been
drawn from that of the son of a Herefordshire baronet
[Etherege, Man of Mode}.
Fly : a questionable character who had been a wandering
gipsy, but afterwards earned a living as keeper of
reckonings, etc., at the Inn [Ben Jonson, New Inn].
Fogg : tee Dodson and Fogg.
Foible : the lady's-maid of Lady Wiahfort, who married
Mirabell's footman [Congreve, Way of the World].
Foigard, Father : an Irishman who belonged to a gang of
thieves [Farquhar, Beaux? Stratagem}.
Foker, Mr. Henry : a dashing young Cambridge under
graduate [Thackeray, Pendennit],
Folair, Mr. : one of Mr. Crummle's Company at the Ports
mouth Theatre [Dickens, Nicholat Nickleby}.
Foldath : general of the Belgae la the south of Ireland
[Ossian, Temora].
Folio :=.Thomas Rawlinson [Addiaon, Tatter, No. 158].
Folliott, The Rev. Dr. : a jovial old clergyman, of th«
muscular Christian type, and a hater of shams. A
character said to have been drawn to propitiate the
clergy, whom the author had ridiculed in previoiw
works [Peacock, Crotchd Cattle}.
Follywit : a mischievous young spark who is for ever
playing tricks upon his grandfather, Sir Bounteous
Progress [Middleton, A Mad World, My Matiert\.
Foadlewife ; a banker [Congreve, Old Bachelor].
W.W.F. I
FON 114 FOS
Fondlove, Sir William : a sprightly old man of sixty who
fancies himself to be still iu his youth and who marries
a widow of forty [Knowles, Lore-Chant].
Foot-breadth : the sword of Thoralf Skolinson the Strong, of
Norway.
Fopling Flutter, Sfr : tee Flutter, Sir Fopling.
Foppington, Lord : a character in Cibber, The Carrlf*i
Butband and Love't Lout SKft ; Vanbrugh, The
Rdapie (a sequel to them) ; Sheridan, Trip to Scar-
borough.
Ford, Master : the husband of one of the ladies with whom
Falstaff is in love.
— — — Mrt. : wife of above ; she turns the tables upon
Falstaff and holds him up to ridicule [Shakespeare,
Merry Wive* of Windsor'].
Foresight : a wealthy London citizen w,ho practised astro
logy [Congreve, Lore lor Love].
Forester, Mr. : an admirable but despondent man with a
strong trait of eccentricity in his nature. He intro
duces Sir Oran Hauton to Society [Peacock, J7rfm-
court}.
Lady Jemima : wife of Sir Philip, who discovers
her husband's evil habits by means of ' the enchanted
mirror.'
Sir Philip : a knieht of low character. [Scott,
Aunt Maraarfft Mirror}.
Forobosco : a MouMabank [J. Fletcher, Fair Maidofthe Inn].
Fortinbras : the Prince of Norway [Shakespeare, Uarnlet}.
Fortunatuf : the hero of an old Italian tale, on whom
Fortune bestowed an inexhaustible purse. There are
many versions of the story, and the character has come
to represent good fortune, and is constantly referred
to in all European literature.
Fortnnio : the companion of Fidele [Monday, Two JtcUitm
Gentlemen].
Foscari, Francis : the Doge of Venice for thirty-five years
[Byron, Two Fos<-ari}.
Fots, Corporal : an old soldier who, after he had left the
army, continued in the service of Worthington, his old
master [Colman the Younger, Poor Gentleman].
Fossile : supposed to have been intended for Dr. Wood
ward, a physician who devoted much time to anti
quarian subjects [Pope, Gay and Arbuthnot, Three
Ifourt after Marriage}.
Foster, Anthony : the Earl of Leicester's agent at Cumnor
Place [Scott, KenHu-orlh}.
Mr. : 'the perferti'oilian ' — one of the cranks who
met at Squire Headlong's [Peacock, Headlong Ball},
rot 115 FR\
Foiherintray, Miss : »« Costipan, Emily.
Fountain : one of Lady HeartweU's suitors [J. Fletcher,
Wit Without Mone>,}.
Ponrdelia : the personification of France [Spenser, Faery
Queene].
Fowler : a clever but unprincipled man, who is reformed
by being gulled into thinking he is dead and suffering
as a disembodied spirit for his vices [Shirley, Witty
Fair One}.
Poxchase, Sir Harry : a candidate for Parliament opposed
bv Colonel Promise and Lord Chase [Fielding, Pat-
quin].
Foxlev. Squire Matthew : the magistrate who examined
Dirsie La timer [Scott, Rtdgauntltt}.
Fradubio : the wooer aud winner of Duessa [Spen'wr,
Ffih-'i Qitrenel
Frail. Lady : re^lly Lady Vane, a ' person of quality ', who
Imd many adventures [Smollett, Peregrin*
PiMe].
- Mrs. : a woman of bad repute, who married
Tattle [Congreve, love /or Love'].
F-ampnl, Lord : nee Goodstock, The Host.
Frances : daughter of the Burgomaster of Bruges [J.
Fletcher, Btyyar't Buih].
Franoesca : daughter of Menotti, the Governor of Corinth
[Byron, Siege of Corinth}.
.the subject of a dramatic poem [Leigh Hunt,
Francesco da Rimini}.
Franceichini, Qnido : the head of a noble but poor family
of Arez7x> who, for the sake of her money, married
Pompilia, reputed daughter of Pietro and Violante,
an elderly couple of obscure position. He treated her
with cruelty and she fled. He pursued and killed her
[R. Browning, Ring and the Book].
Francesco : the hero of an early novel [Greene, Franteteo'i
Fortune*}.
a character almost parallel to that of lago In
Othctto [Massinger, Diike of Milan].
Franchi, Louis dei, and Fabian dei : the Corsican brothers.
A translation from the French. The mysterious
sympathy existing between these twins is the motive of
the play [Dion Boucicault, Cortican Brother*}.
Francis : the Confessor of Simon Glover [Scott, Fair Maid
of Perth].
a monk quartered at Pamur [Scott, Quentin Dvr-
vjard}.
- a faithful and Incorruptible servant [B. Thompson,
The Stranger].
FRA 118 FR2
Francisco : the son of Valentine ; both loved the same
girl, who chose the son [J. Fletcher, Mont. Thomas}.
• a musician [J. Fletcher, The Chances],
the younger brother of Valentine [J. Fletcher,
Wit Without Money}.
Frank : a girl who was desperately in love with the woman-
hater, Captain Jacomo [Beaumont and Fletcher,
The Captnh,].
Mildmay : toe Mlldmay, Frank.
Frankenstein : a man who tries to create a man from
sundry chemicals and succeeds in creating a monster
that he himself loathes [Mrs. Shelley, Frankenstein}.
Frankford, Mr. : a man, whose wife having proved unfaith
ful, made her a liberal allowance and sent her from
home. On her death-bed he forgave her.
— Mrs. : the wife of the above [Heywood, Woman
KiUed by Sindnest].
Franklin, Lady : a widow of great goodness of nature, who
married Mr. Graves, a melancholy widower [Lytton,
Money}.
Frankly : one of the characters in a comedy [Cibber,
Hejusal: or, Ladief Philotophy}.
Charles : in love with Clarinda, whom he wins
[Hoadley, SutpMout Btuband}.
Franval, Madame : the mother of Marianne and opposed
to her marriage with Captain St. Alme [Holcroft, Deaf
and Dumb}.
Frateretto : a fiend ; he is mentioned by Edgar [Shake
speare, King Lear],
Frederick : Celia's father, the usurping duke [Shakespeare,
At Ya* Like It}.
the usurping King of Naples ; brother of Alphonao,
the rightful king [J. Fletcher, Wife for a Month}.
Don : a Portuguese merchant [Mrs. Centlivre, The
Wonder}.
Freehold : an old-fashioned gentleman-farmer who hates
' men of fashion '.
- Aura : the daughter of the farmer, who marries
Modely.
Flora : the niece of the farmer who marries
Heartwell [Kemble, Farm-H<nue}.
Freetove, Lady : ' as mischievous as a monkey, and a*
cunning too ' [Colman the Elder, Jfalout Wife].
Sophia : the daughter of Widow Warren, witn
whom Harry Dornton is in love [Holcroft, Road to
Rum}.
\ : the friend of Manly and hJs lieutenant [Wycherley,
Plain firaler].
FRE 117 FRO
Freeman, Sir Charles : the friend of Aimwell, and a brother
of Mrs. Sullen's [Faxquhar, Beaux' Stratagem}.
• Charles : a friend of Level's [Townley, High Life
Below Stair t],
Freeport, Sir Andrew : a ihrewd yet perfectly honourable
and upright London merchant [Addison and Steele,
Spectator, Essays 174, 232, 549, etc.].
Friar Dominic : a comic character written in ridicule of the
priesthood [Dryden, Spanish friar}.
Laurence : tee Laurence, Friar.
of Orders Grey : the subject of a ballad compiled
from fragments [¥trcj,Reliqius: a Friar of Orders Grey.
Tuck : tee Tuck, Knar.
Friars, The : two Wars who detect each other in love
intrigues [Dunbar, The Friars of Berwick}.
Fribble : • a despicable coxcomb troubled with weak nerves
[Garrick, Mitt in Htr Teen*}.
a surly and conceited man ; a haberdasher by
trade [Charles Shadwell, Eptom Wetti}.
Friday, Man : Robinson Crusoe's faithful coloured com
panion on the deaert island [Defoe, Robinson Cru
soe].
Friendly, Sir John : a simple country gentleman [Vanbrugh,
The Relapse}. The same character under the name
of Townley appears in Sheridan's adaptation of their
play, Trip to Scarborough}.
Dinah : the affianced wife of Edward Blushing.
ton, the ' Bashful Man '.
Sir Thomas : her father, a gouty old baronet
[Moncrieff, Bashful Man}.
friscobaldo : ' a picture of a broken-hearted father with
a sneer on his lips and a tear in his eye ' (Haz)itt)
[Dekker, ffonest Whore].
Tritchie, Barbara : an old old woman who at the risk of her-
own li/e defended the American flag [Whittier, Barbara
Friithit}.
Pritz : an old gardener whose on y love and sole source of
conversation is flowers [Stirling, Prisoner of Mate}.
Frolic, Sir Frederick : a man of good birth and good spirit,
but aimless in life and given over to pleasure [Etherege,
Comical Revenge ; or, Lore in a Tub}.
Front de Boeuf, Reginald : tee Boeuf, Front de.
Froth, Lady: a lady of literary proclivities and question
able morals.
' Lord : her husband, most gallant and attentive
in spite of his wife's shortcomings. He thought
nothing was more ' unbecoming a man of quality
than a laugh ' [Congreve, Double Dealer].
FRO 118 GAL
Froth, Master: a very foolish creature of no marked
character [Shakespeare, Meanire for Measure].
Frolhal : son of Annir, overthrown by Fineal in single com-
Ji.it. Utha was hU sister [Oosian, Carrie- Thura}.
Fmgal, Luke : an ill-natured hypocrite ; the brother of
>ir John [Massinger, City Madam].
Fuclgtt. Foaming : said to be intended for a likeness of
Lord lirougham [Beaconsfield, Vivian Grey].
Family : a series of humorous and satirical pocuis
m tiie form of letters from Phil Biddy, Bob Fudge and
Pheiim Connor to their friends at home [Thorn**
Moore, Fudge Family in Paris].
Fulgcntio : a rising man at the Sicilian Court with a
reputation for bribery [Massinger, Maid o/ Hanous}.
Fulmer : a shiftless, unsuccessful man.
Patty : a swindler and scandal-monger, passing
lierself off as FuLmer's wife [Cumberland, We*
Indian}.
Fr.ugoso : a man distinguished for his ill-luck [Ben Jonson,
L'vrif Man in llis Humour].
Fungus, Zachrry : the principal character, played by the
author himself [Foote, The Commissary}.
Furor : the personiricuiiun of Intemperate Anger [Spenser,
f fieri/ yvrene].
Fustr-s : Minister of State to the King of Utopia, who kills
for having slain the King [Rhodes, Bw
flaberlanzie Man, The : the hero of a ballad ; a wandering
lit-ggar who carried a bag or gaberlunzie [ascribed to
James V of Scotland, Gaberlunzie Man}.
Gabor : he helped to rescue Count Stralenheiin from the
waters of the Oder instead of being his murderer, ad
was inspected [Byron, Werner}.
Gabriel Lajeunnesse : iff Lageunnesse.
Gadabout, Mr-*. : one of the female characters in the play
l<;.-irr:v k. Lying Valet}.
Gadshy, Captain : an officer of Hussars stationed in India
[Ki! ling, Story of the Uadsbyt].
Cateri=, Sir : nephew to King Arthur. Taken captive by
Sir Turguine he was rescued by Sir Launcelot du
Lac [Mallory, Hittory of Prince Arthur].
Qaiour : the Emjwror of China and father of Badoura
[Arabian Xijklt].
Galahad, Sir : the purest of all King Arthur's Knights — tha
only one wli.i ha- 1 a full vnion of the H.-;!y Gra
Tennyson, Id.jlU of the Jfiny : Tin- ht^g (Jruill.
GAL 113 GAR
Galahalt : the son of Sir Brewnor ; a quite distinct charac
ter from Sir Galahad, though also a Kaight of the Uouad
Table [Arthurian Cycle}.
Galaniyse : the charger given to Grande Amoure by
Melyzyua [Hawes, Pasic-tyme of Pleasure].
Gala pas : an enormous giant wliom King Arthur slew
[Miillory, Hittory of Prince Arthur}.
Galatea : a statue modelled by Pygmalion with which he
fell In love and which became animated [Gilbert,
Pygmalion and Galatea}.
— — — — a lady in the suite of the princess [Beaumont and
Fletcher. Phylaiter ; or, Love Lies Hleed-
ing}.
Galathea and Phillida : two girla who dress up as men,
meet one another and fall in love with one another
[Lyly, Galathea].
Galatine : Sir Gawain'a Sword [Mallory, Uittory of Prince
Arthur}.
Galbraith, Major Duncan : an officer in the militia [Scott,
Rob Koy\.
Galoshio : a clown [J. Fletcher, Nice Valour}.
Gamelyn : the youngest of the five sons of Sir Johan di
Boundys, who was very cruelly treated by his eldest
brother. He ends by becoming the king's chief ranger,
and seeing lii« jwrsecutor executed [Chaucer, Canter
bury Talrt : The Coke1! Tale of Gameiyn).
Game Chicken, The : a low teacher of fencing, betting,
etc., who gives Mr. Toots some lessons in those arts
[Dickens, Dombey and Son}.
Samrner Gorton : tee Gurton, Gammer.
Gammon, Master : a servant of the Flemings, known aa
Mas' Gammon — ' the slowest old man of his time '. A
deliberate but trustworthy creature [George Meredith,
lihoda Fleming}.
Oily : a low-claes, hypocritical solicitor [Warren,
Ten Thousand a year}.
Gamp, Sarah : a drunnen sick nurse of the old type, who
nurse* Martin Chuzzlewit through a fever [Dickens,
Martin Chuzzlewit}.
Ganderetta : the heroin* of a burlesque [Somerville, Hob-
binoi}.
Ganem : the hero of a tale called ' The Slave of Love '
[Arabian Night*}.
Gann. Caroline : the heroine, whom we meet agate In anot her
story from the same pen, i.e. Tke Adventwn of Philip
[Thackeray, A Shabby Vented Story}.
Gara?antua : a giant who swallowed five pilgrims, staves and
all, m a salad {History of Garagantua}.
GAR 120 GAU
Gardiner, Mr. and Mrs. : the good and sensible aunt and
uncle of the Bennets, who aid in the rescue of Lydia
[Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice].
Gareth : the son of Queen Bellicent. He bound himself
by an oath to serve as a scullion in King Arthur'8
kitchen for * year and a day. He married Lynett*
[Alfred Tennyson, IdyUt of the King: Gareth and
LynrUe].
Gargery, Joe : a blacksmith of fine nature, married to a
termagant [Dickens, Great Expectations].
— -^ Mrt. : Joe's wife, and Pip's sister ; an ill-tempered
virago [Dickens, Great Expeditions}.
Garland, Mr. : a little, fat, kindly man whose horse Kit
Nubbles holds, and to whom Kit goes as servant after
he leaves Little Nell.
Mr. Abd : his son, articled to Mf. Witherden, and
afterwards his partner.
Mrt. : his wife, as placid and kindly as himself
[Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop].
Garth, Caleb : a yeoman of singularly direct and truthful
character.
Mary : the daughter of Caleb, who marries Fred
Viney [George Eliot, Middlemarch].
Gartha : the sister of Prince Oswald, who does her best
to stir up civil war [Davenant, Oondibert].
Gas, Charlatan : this character is supposed to be intended
for Canning [Beaconsfleld, Vivian Grey].
Gash ford, Mr. : a detestable man, the secretary of Lord
George Gordon. To satisfy his private spite he eggs
the rioters on to burn Haredale's house. He ends by
committing suicide [Dickens, Barnal'/ Hudge\.
Gaster, Rev. Dr. : a self -satisfied and worldly cleric, whose
main wish is for personal comfort. One of those
visiting Squire Headlong [Peacock, Headlong
Hall].
Gaspard : the faithful servant of Count de Valmont
[Dimond, Foundling of the Forest].
Gaudiosa, Lady : high-minded and brave, she was the
devoted wife of Pelayo [Southey, Roderick].
Gaul: the son of Morni and affianced to Oithona, who
died before the wedding-day [Ossian, Oithona].
Gauntgrim : a wolf [Lytton, Pttyr mt of the Rhine].
Gauntlett, Emilia : the heroine [Smollett, Peregrine Pickle];
see also Emilia.
Gauvaine or Gawain : a bold but irreverent Knight of the
Kound Table [Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the Kinq :
Pelleas and Etlarre]. This character is the subject of
many other poems and romances. '
GAW 121 GEO
Gawrey : a woman with wings which served her as ctothing
as well as mean* of progression [Paltock, Peter WHkin.t\.
Gawtrey, Stephen : a man of honest purpose but strong
passions, who offends against law and society [Lytton,
Right and Morning}.
Gay, Lucien : supposed to be intended for Theodore Hook
[Beaconsfleld, Coninytby].
Walter : an honest youth hi the employ of Dotnbcy
and Son, who suffers shipwreck, but survives, and
marries Florence Dombey. Captain Cuttle is his
great friend [Dickens, Dombey and Son].
Gayless : the penniless lover of Melissa [Garrick, Lyingfalct}.
Qayville, Lady Emily : sister of Lord Qayville, in love with
Mr. Clifford.
Lord : betrothed to the heiress, Miss AUcrip, but
loving Miss Alton, whom he ultimately marries [Bur-
goyne, The Htirett].
Gazette, Sir Gregory : an absurd man who, having no
comprehension of politics, yet delights in political
news [Foote, The Knightt].
Gazingi, Miss : a member of Mr. Crummle's Company at the
Portsmouth Theatre [Dickens, Nicholtu Niddeby].
Geddes, Joshua : an elderly quaker who befriends Darsie
Latimer when he is overtaken by the tide in the Solway
Firth [Scott, Kedgaunttit}.
Geierstein, Anne ol : daughter of Count Albert and BarueeM
of Arriheirn, the ' Maiden of the Mist1.
Count Albert: brother of Count Arnold. He ap
pears under various disguises, i.e. as president of the
secret tribunal, as a monk, and as the black priest of
St. Paul.
Count Arnold : his brother. [Scott, Anne of
Geicrstein].
Geith, George : a man full of moral courage and an un
flagging devotion to duty [Mrs. Traflord (lliddell),
George Geith].
Gelert : the favourite dog of Llewellyn that, by killing a
wolf, saved his master's child.
Gellatley, Davie : a half-witted, at the same time shrewd,
servant of the Baron of Bradwardine [Scott, Waverley].
Geaeral, Mrs. : a widow lady engaged by Mr. Dorrit to
teach his daughters [Dickens, Little Don-it].
Genevieve : the subject of a ballad [S. T. Coleridge, <?«*«-
vieve].
George Barnwell : tee Barnwell, George.
Captain : the keeper of a shooting gallery, ' •
fine, bluff-looking man of a frank free bearing ', whose
real name is Rouncewell [Dickens, fileak ffoute].
fiEO 122 GIA
G»orge-a-Greene : a boon companion of Robin Hood, a
piuner of Wakefleld [Greene, Hillary of Giorge-a-
Vrcfne, the Pinner of Waktfifld}.
Geraint, Sir : a Knight of the Round Table who proves but
a sorry husband, at first, to Enid, his wife [Alfred
Tennyson, IdyUi of the King : Geraint and Enid}.
Qeraldin, Lord : son of the Earl of Glenallan. He marries
Isabella Wardour [Scott, Antiquary}.
Geraldine : the heroine of a ' romance of the age '. She is
noble, but falling in love with a peasant poet bestows
her hand on him [Elizabeth B. Browning, Lady
Geraldine't Courtthip].
a young man who finds, on returning from long
travels, the girl he loves married to an old man, who
treats him with great hospitality — a hospitality which
he resolves not to abuse [Heywo&d, The Englith
TravMer}.
Fair : supposed to be Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, who
married the Earl of Lincoln. Henry Howard, Earl of
Surrey, addressed love sonnets to her.
The Lady : the ' serpent-woman ' whom Christabel
met in the forest [8. T. Coleridge, Chrittabel}.
Lady : an orphan and the ward of her uncle, Count
de Valmont, She marries Florian, ' the foundling ',
who turns out to be her uncle's son [Dimond, Foundling
of the fore*].
Oersrdine : the lover of Maria [Middleton, Family of Love}.
Gflrrard : the father of Florez, the merchant of Bruges,
and himself king of the beggars. He assumes the
name of Clause [J. Fletcher, Beggar' '$ Bulk}.
a scented fop who assume* the role of a dancing-
master so as to prosecute an intrigue with Hippoiua
under the eyes of her guardians [Wycherley, Gentieman
Danring Matta-\.
Gertrude o! Wyoming : the heroine, daughter of the
patriarch Albert. The story relates to the destroying
of the Pennsylvanian village of Wyoming by Indiana
[Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming}.
Queen ol Denmark : the mother of Hamlet, married
to his uncle [Shakespeare, Hamlet}.
O«rnndio : the hero of a Spanish romance [Isla, Lite of
Friar Gerund}.
Geryonep : a monster with three bodies, whom King
Arthur slew [Spenser, Faery Quecne}.
Giafflr : father of Zuleika. He shoots Zuleika's lover,
Selim, and she dies of grief [Byron, Bride of Abi/dot].
Giant Despair : tee Despair, Giant.
GIA 123 GIL
Giant Grim : »•<• Grim, Giant.
Slay-good : tee Slay-good, Giant.
Giaour, The : Leilah lalls in love with him and flees from
the harem ol Hassan. Hassan pursues the level's uu j
is slum by the Giaour. On his death-bed the Cii.-uuix
confesses his crime, and at his own request is buried
without a name [Byron, Giaour],
Giauhare : was the daughter of the King of Samaudal
[Arabian Wights].
Gib : a cat [wrongly attrib. Bp. Still, Gammer Gurton't
A'tedle].
Gibbet : a convict who « left his country for his country's
good ' [Farquhar, Beaux' Stratagem].
Gibbie Galbraitb, Sir : the hero of the tale [Macdonald, Sir
Gibbif].
- Guse : a half-witted boy in the service of Lady
Belk-uden [Scott, Old Mortality}.
Gibby : the awkward blundering servant of Colonel Briton
[Mrs. Ceutlivre, The Wonder].
Gibson. Dr. : the medical man of Hollingford.
Molly : Dr. Gibson's motherless daughter [.Mrs.
Gaskell, Wive* and Daughttrt].
Giglio, Prince : one of the two heroes of a ' fireside panto
mime ' [Thackeray, Rote and the Ring].
Gilbert : hero of a ballad [Longfellow, Kir Humphrey (JO.-
bert].
Sir : a Knight of the Round Table, whose sword and
cerecloth had a wonderful healing power [Malluiy.
History of Prince Arthur].
with the White Hand : one of Robin Hood's com
panions mentioned in Lyttdl Gtxte of Rot>im
Hoile.
GJderoy : a famous robber who flourished in the seven
teenth century and is said to have exercised his talents
upon Oliver Cromwell and Cardinal Richelieu. Hia
feats are celebrated in a Scottish ballad.
Giles : a hard-working but rough farmer who loved Tatty,
' tha Maid of the Mill ' [Bickeraiiff, M aid o/ <*«
AIM].
Mr. : Mrs. MayUe's butler and steward [Dickens,
Oliver Ticitt].
- - the hero of the poem, which is arranged in four
parts after the seasons of the year [Bloomtleld, Farmer'*
hoy].
Gideon : a journeyman roper, discharged by his
master, aud afterwards imprisoned, under an unjust
law, lor hawking his own manufacture* [Miller, Gideon
Giles, the Koper],
GIL 124 GLE
Gilfll. The R*v. Maynard : the hero, who, only a crusty,
commonplace, conacientions country parson, to out
ward seeming, ' had known all the deep secrets of de
voted lore, had struggled through its days and nishta
of anguish, and trembled under its unspeakable joys '
[George Eliot, Scents of Clerical Lt/e : Mr. Qilfit't
Love-Story}.
Qilflory, Mrs. General : a widow, lively, good-natured and
uncultured [WooLf, Mighty DoUar}.
Gill, Harry : the farmer who forbade Goody Blake to
carry home sticks from hi* land [Wordsworth, Goody
Blakt and Sorry GUI}.
Gills, Solomon : a ship's instrument maker, and the uncl«
of Walter Gay [Dickens, Dombey and Son].
Gilpin, John : a draper and ' train-band Captain ' of
' famous London town ' [Cowper, JohA GOpin}.
Gimcrack. Sir Nicholas : the hero of the comedy — a man
full of scientific crotcheta [Thomas Shadwell, The
Virtue*].
Ginevra : a young bride who in a game of hide-and-seek
hid herself in an old chest, which closed with a spring.
She was never found until years afterwards when tl»e
chest was sold; there lay her skeleton [Kogers,
Italy}.
the subject of this ballad is the same as that by
Rogers [Bailey, Ginevra}.
Qins's Baby : a poor little gutter-child [Jenkins, Gituc'i
Baby}.
Glasher, Mrs. Lydia : the woman whom Grandcourt had
wronged, and who was the mother of hia children
[George Eliot, Daniel Deronda}.
Glass, Mrs. : a tobacconist in London who befriended
Jeanie Deans [Scott, Heart of Midlothian}.
Glauce : Britomart's nurse [Spenser, Faery Qutene].
Giaucus : the chief male character in the novel [Lytton,
iMtt Days o! Pompeii}.
Glee-Maiden : a girl called Louise, to whom the king's son
makes love. After his death she throws herself over
a precipice [Scott, Fair Jfnid of Perth].
?, Mrs. : •
Glegff, Mrs. : one of M-iggie Tulliver's aunta [George Eliot,
Mill on the Flogs].
Glenallan, Lord : unsuccessful suitor for the hand ef Mary
Douglas [Susan E. Ferricr, Marriage}.
Glenalvon : the heir to Lord Randolph, slain by Noval
[Home, DoHfflvs]-
Glenarvon, Lord :=Lord Byron, in a norel where nearly all
the characters are drawn from life [Lady C. Lamb,
dlcnarvon}.
GLE 125 6NO
Clencairn, Kiss Mall? : Mrs. Pringle's correspondent
[Gait, Arythire Legatee»].
Glendinning, Sir Halbert : the Knight of Avenel, Lady
Mary's husband [Scott, Tht Abbot}.
Qlendiiinings, The : a family of modest pretentious raised
to a position of eminence through pure merit [Scott,
Monattery.]
dower, Owe
Qleadower, Owen : a highly accomplished Welsh
chief, descended from King Llewellyn [Shakespeare,
Henry IV, pt. i.].
Glenfern, The Laird of : father of Henry Douglas [Susan
E. Ferrier, Marriage].
Qlenroy, Chief o! : a proud, prejudiced and {irascible
Highland chieftain wrapped up in a son and nephew
to the exclusion of his daughter [Susan E. Ferrier,
Destiny}.
Qlenthorn, Lord : the personification of Ennui, the natural
result of over-indulgence [Maria Edgeworth, Ennui}.
Olenvarloch, Lord : «ee Olifaunt, Nigel.
Glibun, Arery : the hero of the story [R. H. Newell (Orpheus
0. Kerr), Avery Glibun; or. Between Tico Firet}.
Oioriana : ' the greatest, glorious queen of Faery-land*.
She sends her knights out on their various missions
and represents Queen Elizabeth in the allegory [Spenser,
Faery Queene].
Qlossin. Gilbert : an unrighteous lawyer [Scott, Guy Man-
nering}.
(Hover, Catherine : the heroine, who has many admirers
but gives her hand to Henry Smith, the armourer.
- Simon : father of Catherine [Scott, Fair Maid of
Perth].
Glowry, Mr. : the father of Scythrop and owner of Night
mare Abbey [Peacock, Nightmare Abbey].
- Scythrop : son of above, a misanthrope, in love
with Marionetta O' Carroll and Celinda Toobad at the
same time. Supposed to be intended for P. B. Shelley
[Peacock, Nightmare Abbey}.
Glumdalca : in a burlesque ; she is queen of the giants and
in love with Tom Thumb [Fielding, Tom Thumb the
Oreat].
Glumdalclitch : a girl of nine who i* forty feet high.
Gulliver was oommited to her care during his visit to
Brobding-nag [Swift, Qullii-er't Travels}.
Glycine : a character in the tale [3. T. Coleridge, Zapolya].
Gnotho : an old man who wanU to avail himself of ' The
Old Law ' in order to exchange an old wife for a young
one [Matsinger, Middleton and Rowley, Old Lav}.
608 126 GON
Gobble, Justice: an insolent magistrate [Smollet, Str
r.aitni-ctnt Grfava],
Gobbo, Lau7ioe!ot : the boy who forsakes Shyloek'g service
for Raflsnnio's.
Old .- Launcelot's father, an old, blind man [Shake
speare, Merchant of Venice],
Gobilvve, Godfrey : the assumed name of False Report — a
hideous dwarf [Hawes, Patte-ti/me of Pltatttre].
Godfrey, Sir Edmondbnry : a magistrate who actively
denounced the plots of the papists and was, in revenge,
slain by them [Scott, Peveril of the Peak].
Miss : the daughter and heiress of an Indian
official [Foote, The Liir].
Godiva. Lady : wife of Leofrlc, Earl of Mercia. She under
took to ride naked through the town if her husband
would remit a tax which weighed heavily on the people.
She actually did as she had promised, first ordering
that all doors and windows should be closed and none
look out. All obeyed her except one, who was ever after
known as ' Peeping Tom '.
Godmer : a British giant whom Canutus §lcw [Spenser,
Faery Quernf].
G^dolphin : the hero [Lytton, GodolnMn}.
Gold Hair : a story about a young girl of Pornic who waa
buried near the high altar in the church. Years after
wards, when the pavement was removed, thirty
double louis were discovered to have been buried hi her
hair [R. Browning, Gold Hair}.
Goldfinch, Charles : a common, low man who carries on
a flirtation with Widow Warren and plots with her to
destroy her husband's will [Holcroft, Road to Ruin}.
Goldiebirds. Messrs. : the firm to whom Sir Arthur Wardoui
owes money [Scott, Antiquary}.
Goliath : the second character in the poem [Drayton,
I/ftrid and Goliath].
Golizhtly. Mr. : the would-be borrower [J. M. Morton, Lend
Me five ShMingt}.
Golfho : loved Birtha, the daughter of Astragan, but
Birtha loved Gondibert [Davenant, Oondibert].
Gomaz : a rich old banker married to a young wife, who
amuses herself with one Lorenzo, who proves to be
her own brother [Dryden, Spanish Friar].
Gondibert, Duke : in a faction fight limited to two repre
sentatives on either side, Gondibert slew Oswald,
and his own wounds were healed by Astragon, to whose
daughter, Birtha, he is affianced [Davenant, Gondi-
brrt].
Ooneril : eldest daughter of King Lear and wife of the
Duke of Albany [Shakespeare, King Lear].
GON 127 GOT
Gonzalo : counsellor to the King of Naples [Shakespeare,
T«npe«}.
— a Venetian nobleman [J. Fletcher, Lairs of Candy).
Goodchild, Charlotte : a wealthy orphan with many suitors ;
of these only one remains faithful upon hearing that
her fortune ia lost, and that is Sir Callaglian O'Bral-
laghan [Macklin, Love d-la-Modt}.
Goodenough, Dr. : a physician [Thackeray, Adventure
of Philip].
Qoodiellow. Robin : a knavish sprite, the son of Oberon,
King of the Fairies, often called ' Puck '.
Goodlucke, Oawin : one of the characters in the play
[Udall, Ralph Router Doitter].
Goodstock, The Host : assumes the position of a gentle
man, and pretends to be the landlord of the Light
Heart Inn at Barnet [Ben Jonson, New Jnn}.
Goodwill : a tradesman who bad amassed a fortune. He
had one only child, his daughter Lucy.
— — Lucy : a girl of sixteen, whose father tries to force
her into a family marriage so as to keep his money
in the family. She declines and marries Thomas, a
footman [Fielding, The Virgin Unmatktd].
Goody, Blake : tee Gill, Harry.
Gorboduc : a mythical British king, father of Ferrer and
Porrei. On this tradition our first historical play was
based [Morton and Buckhurst. TheTragfdy of Gorboduc].
Gorbrias : the father of King Arbaces [Beaumont and
Fletcher, King or Ko King],
Gordon, Lord George : the leader of the ' no Popery ' riots
at the close of the eighteenth century [Dickens,
Jlarnabv Rudge].
Gorlou : lord of Tintagel, and husband of Iirrayne ; he is
the traditionary father of King Arthur [Alfred Tenny
son, Jdyllt of the King : Coming of Arthur].
Gosling, Giles : landlord of the Black Bear at Cumnor
[Scott, Kcniluvrth].
Goswin : a wealthy merchant of Bruges, a son of Gerrard,
king of the beggars. Betrothed to Bertha, not knowing
her to be the daughter of the Duke of Brabant [J.
Fletcher, Beggar' 't Bush].
Gotham, The Men o! : the heroes of an attempt to foil King
John in a plan to pass through Gotliam, whereby the
villagers would have been put to great eipense [Merry
Talet of the Men of Gotham].
Gottlieb : a poor farmer with whom Prince Henry of
Hoheneck lived when he became a leper. Elsie Ms
daughter, it was, who offered her life lor the Prince
[Longfellow, Golden Legend}.
GOU 128 GRA
Qoorlay, Ailsie : one of the sibyls present at Alice Gray'i
death [Scott, Bride of Lammermoor].
Gow, Henry : otherwise Henry Smith, the armourer who
married Catherine Glover [Scott, Fair Maid of Perth}.
Gowan, Henry : an artist, who marries Miss Minnie Meagles
Mr*. : his mother, a stately old lady [Dickens,
Little Dorrit}.
Gowkthrapple, Maister : a Covenanting preacher and
' chosen vessel ' [Scott, Waverley}.
Gracchus, Caius : the hero of the tragedy [Knowles, Caiui
Gracchus].
Grace, Lady : sister of Lady Townly, and engaged to Manly,
an unpretending, home-loving woman [Vanbrugh and
Cibber, Provoked Husband}.
Gradgrind, Mr. Thomas : a retired hardware merchant
devoted to ' facts and calculations ',
• Mn. : his wife, a nervous, peevish invalid.
— — — Louisa : his eldest daughter, married to Joslah
Bounderby, and devoted to Tom.
— — — Tom : his son, a sullen, self-indulgent young man,
who ends by robbing a bank and trying to throw sus
picion on another [Dickens, Hard Times}.
Grawne, Adam : the hero of a Scottish story [Mrs. Oliphant,
Adam Graeme of Mossjray}.
Magdalene : the grandmother of Roland.
Roland : the heir of the Avenels, and page to
Mary, Queen of Scots [Scott, The Abbot}.
Graham, Mary : the companion of old Martin Chuzzlewit,
and betrothed to the younger Martin [Dickens, Martin
Ohuzzlev-X}.
Grahame, Colonel John : afterwards Viscount Dundee,
serving hi the Duke of Monmouth's army.
Comet Richard : his nephew [Scott, Old Mortality}.
Sir : ttt Eger, Sir.
The : the hero of an heroic poem [Blacklock, Tht
Grahame].
Grandamour : the hero of an alleg orical romance [Hawea,
Passe-tyme of Pleasure}.
Grandconrt, Henleigh : the man who marries Gwendolen
Harleth, the heroine [George Eliot, Daniel Deronda}.
Grandison, Sir Charles : intended for an ideal English
gentleman. The original of the character is supposed
to have been Robert Nels«n, author of ' The Whole
Duty of Man ' [Richardson, Sir Charlet Grandison}.
Graneangowl, Eev. Mr. : Sir Duncan Campbell's chaplain
at Ardenvolir Castle [Scott, Legend of Jtfontrost].
Granger : one of the characters in the comedies [Southern,
Maid i Last Prayer ; and Cibber, The Refusal],
GRA 129 GRA
Granger, Edith : see Dombey, Edith.
Captain : loves Elizabeth Dpiley, an old trades
man's daughter, whose father wishes her to marry *
scholar [Mrs. Cowley, Who's (he Dupe I].
Grantam, Miss : the friend of Miss Godfrey, and herself
engaged to Sir James Elliot [Foote, The Liar].
Grantljr, Bishop : Bishop of Barchester, ' a bland and kind
old man, opposed by every feeling to authoritative
demonstration and episcopal ostentation '. The
warm friend of Mr. Harding. Father of the Archdeacon
[Anthony Trollope, The Warden].
The Rev. Dr. Theophilus : Archdeacon of Bar-
cheeter, a stern and inflexible pillar of the church,
possessed of ' all the dignity of an ancient Saint with
the sleekness of a modern Bishop '.
Mrs. : who had been Susan Harding. The arch
deacon's wife, and the only person to whom he ever un
bent [Anthony Troilope, The Warden}.
Grantmesnil, Sir Hugh de : one of the challengers at the
tournament [Scott, Iranhoe].
Grantorto : the personification of Rebellion [Spenser,
Faery Queene].
Gratiano : a friend of Antonio and Bassanio [Shakespeare,
Merchant ol Venice}.
the brother of Brabantio [Shakespeare, Othello].
Granville, Juliet : the heroine ; married to a man she
despises, from whom she runs away, and who pursues
her relentlessly until his death [Fanny Burney, The
Wanderer].
Gi-aveairs, Lady : a lady of doubtful character [Gibber,
din-lets Hwband}.
the hero [Cooper, The Pilot].
Gray, Auld Robin : a ballad [Lady Anne Barnard,
Avid Robin Gray].
. . Duncan : wooed Maggie, but she turned him a deaf
ear, so off he went ; then she fell sick and was like to die,
BO Duncan came back to her [Burns, Duncan Cray}.
Dr. Gideon : the Middlemas Surgeon.
Mcnie : his daughter, who had a narrow escape
from spending her life in the harem of Toppoo Saib.
Rescued by Hyder All, she returned to her oivn country
[Scott, Surgeon'* Daughter].
Lucy : a little chill ; the subject of a ballad [Words
worth, Lucy Gray ; or, Solitude].
Mary : tee Bell, F.essie.
Nelly : the title of a humorous poem [TboOMM
Hood, Faithlest XMy Gray}.
W.W.F. K
GRA 130 GRE
Gray, Old Alice : a tenant on the Ravenswood estate
[Scott, Bride of Lammcrmoor}.
• Eobin : waa the name of a herdsman In the service
of Lord Balcarras [Lady Anne Barnard, A aid Robin
Gray].
Rosamond : the heroine of a ' miniature romance '
replete with grace and fine feeling and quite unique
of its kind [Lamb, Rotamond Gray and Blind old Mar-
ford}.
Gray-Steel, Sir : tee Eger, Sir.
Greatheart, Mr. : Christiana's trusty guide when she and
her children set out for the Celestial City [Banyan,
Ptifrim't Proyreti, pt. ii.].
Greaves, Sir Launcelot : a young English squire of high
ideals and fine character, who sets forth to right the
wrong and uphold the good ; an English Don Quixote
[Smollett, Adventuret of Sir Launcdot Greavet}.
Greedy, Justice : a ' lean and hungry ' man, who could be
bribed to give any verdict for the sake of a good meal
[Massinger, New Way to pay Old Debt*].
Green, George a- : tee George a-Green.
Mr. and Mrs. Paddington : a clerk of Somerset
House, and his wife [J. M. Morton, // / had a Thvutand
a Year}.
— — — Knight, The : overthrown by Gareth at the en
trance to Castle Perilous [Mallory, Hittory of Prince
Arthur}.
i Verdant : an Oxford undergraduate, the object of
many practical jokes [Cuthbert Bede (Rev. E. Bradley)
Verdant Green}.
• Widow : a wealthy widow of forty. She had first
married for money, but the second time ' to please her
vanity ' [Knowles, Love-Chate}.
Greenhorn, Mr. Gilbert : an attorney, Mr. Gabriel Grinder-
son's partner.
Gregory : a faggot-maker, who began his education in
a charity school, and then improved it whilst acting as
servant to an Oxford undergraduate. The play is an
adaptation from Moliere [Fielding, Mock Doctor}.
Qrossbury, Mr. : the M.P. to whom Nicholas applies for a
situation as secretary [Dickens, Nicholas Xickleby}.
Gremio : one of Bianca's suitors [Shakespeare, Taming
of the Shretc}.
Grendel : half monster, half man, he haunted marshy
places. Beowulf went forth at the head of a band of
warriors and slew him [Beowulf}.
Grenville, Sir Richard : he commanded the Revenge ' at
Florcs in the Azores ' — one ship against fifty-three
ORE 131 GRI
[Alfred Tennyson, The Revenge]. The same hero to
commemorated in Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho I
Qresham, Beatrice : one of the characters in the nove)
[Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thome}.
Grewgious, Hiram, Esquire : ' a particularly angular man ;
Miss Rosa Bud's guardian [Dickens, Edtcin Drood].
Srey, Agnes : the heroine of the novel [Anne Bronte,
Ayms drey].
Elliot : the central character in the play [Wallack,
Roftdale}.
— — — Henry : the Provost of St. Anselm's ; a philosopher.
The teacher and inspirer of Robert Elsmere [Mrs.
Humphry Ward, Robert Sltmere].
— Lady Jane : this unfortunate Queen has been made
the subject of several tragedies, amongst others one by
Nicholas Rowe, Ross Neil, and Alfred Tennyson.
Mr- and Mrs. : a provincial corn and timber mer
chant and his wife. Worldly people but dwsent.r*.
and given to picking holes in their neighbours [Harriet
Martineau, Dterbrook}.
Valentine de : in love with Hero Sutton, whom he
uian-i^s [Knowles, Women'* Wit ; or, Love't Dityuiies].
Vivian : this character is said to have been in
tended by the author for a portrait of himself [Beacons-
field, Vivian Grey].
GrWe, Arthur : an old miser, who wished to marry Madeline
Bray, who refused him [Dickens, A'icholas Nickle-
by].
Oridley, Mr : ' the man from Shropshire ' mined by a suit
in Chancery [Dickens, Bleak House].
Oriflet, Sir : knighted by King Arthur at Merlin's request
[Mallory, History of Prince Arthur].
Grim, Giant : slain by Greatheart for stopping pilgrims on
their way to the Celestial City [Bunyan, Pil^rim'i
Progress].
the hero of a curious old comedy, writer unknown
[J.T., Orim the Collier of Croydon].
Grime : a usurer, the partner of item [Holcroft, Deserted
Daughter].
Grimes, Peter : a drunken thief and a murderer [Crabbe,
The Borough].
Grimwig, Mr. : Mr. Brownlow's testy old friend, who was
always offering to ' eat his head' [Dickens, Oliver
Twist}.
Grinder, Mr. : a showman [Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop].
Grinderson, Mr. Gabriel : an attorney, the partner of Mr.
Greenhorn [8cott, Antiquary].
Grip : Barnaby Rudge' raven [Dickens Ba naby Rudye].
GRI 132 GRU
Gripe : one of the characters taken from Moliere's play,
Lei Fourberies de Scapin. In the French play Gripe
is called Geronte [Otway, Cheats a) Scapin].
a close-fisted scrivener, married to Clarissa. He
entertained too strong a regard for his friend Money-
trap's wife [Vanbrugh, Confederacy].
' an old usurer [Wycherley, Ijove in a Wood].
. Sir Francis : the elderly guardian and admirer of
Miranda, an heiress, but she prefers Sir George Airy, a
younger man [Mrs. Centlivre, Busy Body].
Grippy, Leddy : the heroine [Gait, Entail].
Griselda, Patient : a type of wifely devotion and patient
submission. The daughter of a charcoal-burner, she
becomes the wife of a marquis [Chaucer, Canterbury
Talet : The Clerk' t Tale}.
Oriskinessa : wife of Artaxminous, King-of Utopia [Rhodes,
Bombastcs Furioso].
Grizzle, Lord : the first peer of the realm at King Arthur's
Court, and in love with the Princess Huncamuiica
[Fielding, Tom Thumb].
Gromn, Thomas : one of the jury in the case of Bardell t».
Pickwick [Dickens, Pickwick Paper*].
Groom, Squire : a gentleman-jockey who, having wasted
his substance on horses and dogs, etc., strives to re
trieve bis financial position by marriage [Mackliu,
Love a-la-Mode}.
Groveby, Sir Harry : the nephew of old Groveby of Gloom-
stock Hall, and engaged to Maria [Burgoyne, Maid
of the Oaks].
Grovelgrnb, Dr. : one of the characters in the novel
[Peacock, Mdincourt].
Grove, Jem : landlord of the Valiant Soldier Inn [Dickens,
Old Curiosity Shop].
Grub, Emily : the handsome daughter of Jonathan, who
marries Captain Bevil of the Guards.
Jonathan : a wealthy stock-broker.
Mrt. : his wife, who would fain forget sordid things
and figure as a woman of fashion. [Win. O'Brien,
Crots Purposes].
Gabriel : the hero of the story of ' the Goblins who
stole a Sexton ' [Dickens, Pickwick Papers}.
Grudden, Mrs. : a general factotum attached to the Ports
mouth Theatre Company [Dickens, Nicholas Nickle-
by]-
Grneby, John : the servant of Lord George Gordon [Dickens,
Barnaby Budge}.
Grumio : one of Petrucchio's servants [Shakespeare,
Taming of the Shrew],
GRU 133 GUM
Grundy, Mrs. : the person of whom Mr*. Ashfleld, the
farmer's wife, stood in awe, always wondering what
she would say [J. M. Morton, Speed the Plough].
GryD, Morgana : the charming niece of Squire Gryli. She
marries Mr. Falconer [Peacock, Oryll Orange}.
Gualberto, St. : the heir of Valdeepesa, who was trained to
believe in the avenging of blood, but one day, whilst
lying in wait for Anselmo, the wickedness of the belief
struck him, and throwing aside his dagger he entered
a convent [Southey, St. Gvalberto].
Dubbins, Margery : the girl who was loved by Moore of
Moore Hall [Carey, Dragon of Wantley].
Guendolen : a fairy, of human parentage, with whom King
Arthur fell in love. He deserting her she attempt d
to destroy him by poison [Scott, Bridal of Triermain].
Gnenever, cr, Gninever : daughter of King Leodegrance of
Camelyard. She married King Arthur but was not
true to him [MaUory, Hittory of Prince Arthur}.
Guenevra : the wife of the dwarf Nectabanus [Scott,
Talitman}.
Oneet, Stephen : Maggie Tulllver's lover [George Eliot, 3/iO
on the Flosi}.
Guiderins : the elder son of Cymbeline, kidnapped as an
infant by Belarius [Shakespeare, Cymbeline}.
Guildenstern : one of Hamlet's friends, who tries to turn
his thoughts into a happier channel [Shakespeare,
Hamlet}.
Guinevere : King Arthur's Queen, who loves Sir Launcelot
and breaks her faith with the King [Alfred Tennyson,
JdyUt of the King : Guinevere}.
Guisla : the sister of Pelayo and in love with Numacian, a
renegade [Southey, Roderick}.
Guizor : the bridge-ward of PoUente's estate, bound to let
no man pass without paying ' the passage-penny '.
He was slain by Sir Artegel [Spenser, t'aery Qutrne].
Gulbeyaz : the Sultana, who causes Juan to be introduced
into the harem dressed up as a woman [Byron, Don
Juan}.
Gulchenrous : son of All Hassan the ' most lovely youth ID
the world' [Beckford, Vathek}.
Gulliver, Lemuel : first a surgeon, then a sea-captain, who
visits Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and HouyhnhuT/is
[Swift, Oulliver'i Travel*].
Gulnare : wife of the Sultan, who aids the Corsair in his
escape from prison and follows him disguised a* a
page [Byron, Cortair}.
Gumbo: the coloured servant who came wi»h Harry
Warringtou to England [Thackeray, Virginiutu].
GUM 134 HAD
Gummidge, Mrs. : ' a lovelorn creeture ' ; the widow of
IVgeotty's partner [Dickens, David Copperfifld].
Guppy. William : clerk in the firm of Kenge ft Carboy
[Dickens, Bleak House].
Gnrney, Gilbert : the hero. The novel is mainly auto-
!'ini?rapliic,il [Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney].
Gurth : a swineherd and a thrall of Cedric's [Scott, Ivanhoe}.
the most devoted of King Harold's brothers
[I,ytton, Harold].
Gorton. Gammer : the heroine of an old comedy. Whilst
mending her man Hodge's breeches she loses her
needle, and upon its discovery the fun of the piece
turns [wrongly attrib. Bishop Still, Gammer Gurton'$
Needle].
Gine, Oibbie tee Oibbie, Ouse.
Gust'-r : maid-of-all-work to the Snagshys. Overworked
an.) siren to fits [Dickens, Bleak Bouse].
Guthrie, John : an archer in Louis Xl'a Scottish Guard
[Scott, Quentin Duncard].
Guy Mannerin" : see Mannering, Guy.
Sir, Earl of Warwick : an English knight who per
formed many feats of valour and has been the hero of
song and romance for many generations. Chaucer
and Drayton mention him.
Gnyon. Sir : personifies Temperance [Spenser, Faery Queene],
Gwendolen Harleth : see Hrvrleth, Gwendolen.
Gwenhidwy : a mermaid [Alfred Tennyson, IdyUt of ih«
Kino : The Holy Grail].
Gwynn, Bliss : governess at the Westgate House Establish
ment for Young Ladies [Dickens, Pickwick Paper*].
Gyneth : daughter of King Arthur, who married De Vaui
npon awakening from a trance that had lasted 500
years [Scott, Bridal of Triennain].
Gyp : Blushington's college servant, who helped himself
freely to Blushington's goods [Moncrieff, Bashful Man].
Hackbnrn, Simon ol : Hobble Elliot's friend [Scott, Black
Dwarf].
Hackbnt, Anthony : the brother-in-law of Farmer Fleming.
Thought to be wealthy, he is in fact only the messenger
of a bank. In a fit of madness he steals money [George
Meredith, Khoda Fleming}.
Hackum, Captain : an inhabitant of Alsatia (a low Thames-
side quarter of London), and a bully [Thomas Shadwell,
Squire of Alsatia].
Hadgi. Abdallah el : the Soldan's envoy [Scott, Talisman].
Hadwin, Mrs. : Mr. Frank Wentworth's landlady [Mr*.
Oliphant, Chronicle* of Carling/ord : Perpetual Citrate].
HAF 135 HAM
Hafed : the leader of a band of patriots resolved to liberate
their country, or die in the attempt [Thomas Moore,
Latta Kookh].
Haiatalnefous : daughter of King Armanos ; one of Prince
Camaralzaman's two wives [Arabian Nights}.
Haidee : ' the beauty of the Cyclades ', the daughter of a
Greek pirate. She loved Don Juan [Byron, Don
Juan].
Hajji Baba : tee Baba, Hajji.
Hakeem, or, Hakem : the chief of the Druses [R. Browning,
Rtturn of the Druse*].
Hakim, Adonbec el : the Saladin, who, assuming the dis
guise of a physician, goes to his enemy, Coeur de Lion,
to cure him [Scott, Talisman].
Halcro, Claud : the bard of Magnus Troll [Scott, Pirate}.
Hales, The Rev. Struan : a fox-hunting parson, the uncle
of Alice. He took for his motto, ' Ride on, ride on '
[Blackmore, Alice Lorraine].
Halifax, John : a boy whose sole inheritance was a book with
the inscription in it, "John Halifax, gentleman',
showing that his ancestry was good, and this inspired
him to struggle up from sheer poverty to a position of
affluence [Dinah Muloch, John Halifax, Gentle
man].
Halkett, Cecilia: an heiress, between whom and Nevil
Beauchamp there is great friendship. She eventually
marries a very steady, ordinary Englishman [George
Meredith, Bcauthamp's Career}.
Hall, Father : an intriguing priest [Shorthouse, John
Inglfsant}.
The Eev. Cyril : Vicar of Nunnely, ' near-sighted,
spectacled, . . . abstracted. To old ladies he was
kind as a son. To men of every occupation and grade
he was acceptable ' [Charlotte Bronte, Shirley}.
Haller, Mrs. : she deserted her husband, Count Waldbourg,
for years, but by the instrumentality of friends, and
the sight of their children, they were reconciled [B.
Thompson, The Stranger],
Bamako : a madman [Scott, Talisman].
Hamartia : the personification of Shi [Phineas Fletcher,
Purple Island}.
Hamet : the son of a Chinese Mandarin [Murphy, Orphan
of China].
a black slave of Sir Brian de Bois Guilbert [Scott,
Ivanhoe].
Hamlet : essentially a man of thought, called upon by
circumstances to be a man of action [Shakespeare
Hamlet}.
HAM 136 HAR
Hamley. Osborne : elder son of Squire Hamley, secretly
married to a French girl.
— — — K&jrr : second son of Squire Hamley, who marries
Molly Gibson [Mrs. Gaskell, Wiret and Daughtert].
Haminerlein, Clans : one of the Liege insurgents, a smith
[Scott, (jucntin Durioard].
Hamond : stabs the Duke of Normandy, and is himself
stabbed by Rollo [J. Fletcher, Bloody Brother).
Handford, Julius : tee Harmon, John.
Handy, Abel : a discontented pensioner of Hiram's Hospi
tal [Anthony Trollope, The Warden}.
Lady Nelly : wife of Sir Abel, raised from the
position of a domestic servant. Extravagant and
overbearing.
Robert : son of Sir Abel, by his first wife, marri«d
to Farmer Ashfleld's daughter Susaa.
— — Sir Abel : an inventor always behind the age in his
inventions [J. M. Morton, Speed the Plough}.
— — Andy : the hero of a novel [Lover, Handy Anty],
Hannah : the heroine [Mrs. Inchbald, Nature and Art}.
Hannibal and Scipio : the subjects of a tragedy acted in
1635 [Nabbes, Hannibal and SHpio}.
Hanno : a slave [Dr. J. Moore, Ztlueo],
Hans : in love with Esther, and in the end marrying her
[Knowles, Maid of Mariendorpt}.
Happer : the miller who serves St. Mary's Convent.
- Myiie : his daughter, who gets up as a page and
in that guise serves Sir Pitrcie Shapton [Scott,
Monastery],
Happnck : brother of the enchantress Ulin, and the in
tending assassin of the Sultan. His intentions being
detected he is himself killed [Ridley, Tale* of thr Genii].
Happy Old Couple : tee Darby and Joan.
Harapha : a descendant of Anak, who went to mock at
Samson in prison, but whose courage failed him [Milton,
Samson Ayonistei].
Hareourt : a character in the play [Wycherley, Country
Wife}.
Hardcastle, Miss Kate : a pretty girl who assumes the r61e
of chambermaid so as to ' conquer ' the shyness of
young M;irlow.
Mr. : Tony Lumpkin's step-father, and father of
Kate, who ' stoops ' to win young ilarlow.
Mrs. : his wife, the mother of Tony Lumpkin, a
foolish, fond and vain eld woman [Goldsmith, She
Stoop* to Conquer].
Farding. Eleanor : the heroine, who marries John Bold .
Xne JUv. Septimus : her father, sometime Minor
HAR 137 HAR
Canon of Barchester, afterwards Precentor of the
Cathedral, and Warden of Hirem'8 Hospital. The
hero, who upon conscientious grounds resigns a lucra
tive post [Anthony Trollope, The Warden}.
Hardy, Letitia : betrothed to Dorincourt, whose affection
she secures by a ' stratagem '.
Mr. : father of Letitia, a rathf-r foolish though
meritorious man [Mrs. Cowley, Belie't Stratagem].
Hardy-dardy: the jester in a curious old miracle play
[Godly Queen Better].
Haredale, Emma : Geoffrey's niece and ward, her father
having been murdered. She loves Edward Chester.
-^— Mr. Geoffrey : a papist, and the uncle of Emma.
He killed Sir John Chester in a duel, and, escaping,
took refuge hi a monastery.
Reuben : the murdered father of Emma [Dickens,
Barnaby RuAge\.
Eargrave : a man of fashion, and the hero of the story
[Mrs. Trollope, Hargrave}.
Harkaway, Grace : an heiress [Dion Boudcault, London
Assurance],
Harleth, Gwendolen : the heroine ; she marries Grand-
court [George Kliot, Daniel Deronda}.
Harley : a man of great sensibility and genuine goodness,
but too retiring to give his noble sentiments effect
[Mackenzie, Alan of Feeling].
Adrian : known as the ' Wise Youth '. A relation
of the Feverels, with whom he lives. Though existing
mainly for pleasure, he is cunning enough to do so under
a cloak of great respectability [George Meredith,
Ordeal of Richard Feverel}.
Harlow, HIM : the heroine of a farce, aged forty-two
[Murphy, Old Maid].
Harlowe, Clarissa : has been described as ' the sweetest
martyr hi fiction ' [Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe].
Harmachis : directly descended from the Pharaohs, and
a model of manly strength [Haggard, Cleopatra].
Harmon, John : he sometimes took the name of Handford,
sometimes Rokesmith. Heir to the Harmon estates, he
is attacked, thrown into the Thames, and supposed to
be dead. Eventually he regains his own [Dickens,
Our Mutual Friend].
Harmony, Mr. : a universal peace-maker [Mrs. Inchbald,
Every One has hit FauU].
Harold : the central figure of this historical romance
[Lytton, Harold].
• the last Saxon Ki^g, to the hero ot this drama
[Alfred Tennyson, Harold],
HAR 138 HAR
Harold, Child* : supposed to be autobiographical, but thia
Lord Byron denied. It is the picture of a man sated
with the world, who roams from place to place seeking
distraction [Byron, Childe Harolfi Pilgrimage].
the Dauntless : son of Witikind the Dane, ' rocked
on a buckler and fed from a blade ' [Scott, Harold the
Dauntlett].
Haroun &1 Raschid : Sultan of the Saracen Empire and
hero of many eastern tales [Arabian Night*}.
Harpalus : the hero of an old pastoral ; the lover of
Phillada [in Rongt and Sonnttt].
probably intended for the Earl of Dorset [Spenser,
Colin Clout's Come Home Again].
Harpier, or Harper : a familiar spirit referred to in the
mediaeval demonology.
Harriet : daughter of Sir David and La4y Bunder. She
loved Scruple, and to avoid marriage with Lord Snolta
arranges an elopement [Colman the Younger, Wayt
and Means].
Harrington : the hero of the novel [Maria Edgeworth,
Harrington].
Evan : the son of a country tailor, with all the
instincts of a gentleman. After many remarkable
episodes, he finally marries Rose Jocelyn. the rich
daughter of a county family.
Mrs. Melekisedec : the mother of Evan Harrington.
Her husband was a kind of gentleman-tailor, but she
sternly sets herself to prevent Evan following hi his
father's steps [George Meredith, Evan Harrington].
Harris, Mr. : a showman, better known as ' Short ' or
' Trotters ' [Dickens, Old Cvriositu Shop].
Mrs. : the often -quoted but purely imaginary
friend of Sarah Gamp [Dickens, Martin Chuzdetcit].
Harrison. Dr. : a wise philanthropist [Fielding, Amdia].
Harrowby, Dame : wife of John.
John : a Kentish farmer, tactless but very kind-
hearted.
Mary : daughter of John.
Stephen : his son, who suiters from warlike en
thusiasm [Colman the Younger, Poor Gentleman].
Harry. Blind : the blind friend of Henry Smith, the
armourer ; a minstrel [Scott, Fair Maid o/ Perth],
Sir : the servant of a baronet, who tries to assume
the airs and habits of his master [High Life Bdovo
Stairt}.
Harthouse : tries to persuade Louisa, the wife of Bounderby,
to elope with him, but fails [Dickens, Hard Timet}.
HAR 139 HAW
Hartley, Adam : apprenticed to Dr. Gray, and in love with
Menie. his daughter. He goes to India and rises
rapiilly in his profession [Scott, Surgeon's Daughter}.
Mike : an Aniinomian weaver who attempts to
shoot Robert Moore [Charlotte Bronte', Shirley}.
Hartwell, Lady : a widow with many admirers [J. Fletcher,
Wit Without Money}.
Hassan: owner of the seraglio in which wa* Leila who
loved the Giaour, who slays Hassan [Byron, Giaour}.
Abu : hero of the tale, ' The Sleeper Avxikened ',
the son of a Bagdad Merchant [Arabian Nights}.
^—^ Al : an Arabian Emir of Persia, and father of
Hinda [Thomas Moore, LnUa Ronkh}.
Al Habbal : became fabulously rich through his
wife finding a huge diamond in a fish that he caught
\Arabian Night*}.
Hastie, Robin : a smuggling Inn-keeper [Scott, Red-
gauntlet}.
Hastings : the friend of young Harlow, who elopes with
Mi.* Neville [Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer}.
Harwell : a benevolent physician who devoted himself
to work in Indian prisons [Mrs. Inchbald, Such Things
Are}.
Hatchway, Lieutenant: a retired naval officer who lived
with Commodore T-unnion [Smollett, Peregrine Pirkl*}.
Hatteraick, Dirk : half smuggler, half pirate, and wholly
a villain [Scott, Guy Mannering}.
Haut-ton, Sir Oran : a tame monkey prepared by the hero
for entrance into Parliament [Peacock, Mdincmtrt}.
Hautlieu. Lady Margaret de : disguised as Sister Ursula and
betrothed to Sir Malcolm Fleming [Castle Danrirrmtt}.
Havelok the Dane : son of Birkabegn. King of Denmark,
and reared by a fisherman, who rescued him from the
sea. Through various adventures he succeeds to hii
father's throne [// n-rlok the Dane}.
HavLham, Estella : Miss Haviaham's adopted child, who
married Bentley Drummle.
Mis* : a very eccentric old maid, the daughter of
a wealthy brewer [Dickeus, Great Expfctations}.
Hawdon, Captain : father of the girl known as Esther
Summerson.
— — Erther : known best as Esther Summerson, the
daughter of Hawdon and Lady Dedlock. She Is a
ward in Chancery and marries Allan Woodcourt
[Dickens, Bleak House].
Hawk. Sir Mulberry : an unprincipled knave and gambler
who had a marked talent for ruining young men
[Dickens, Nicholas Kictoeby].
HAW 140 NEC
Hawkeye : the name given to Natty Bumpo, the Deer-
sUyer, by the Red Indiana [Cooper, Dcerdayer}.
Hawthorn : a universal favourite who found his own
happiness In doing good to others [Bickerstaff, Lote
in a Village].
— — Jerry : a rustic, the co-hero with Corinthian Tom
[Pierce Egan, Life in London}.
Hayston, Frank : the laird of Bucklaw, to whom Sir Wm.
Ash ton promised Lucy, and to whom he was married,
only to be assassinated on his bridal night [Scott,
[Bride o/ Lammermoor].
Hazeldean, Squire : ' a blufl old English squire ' [Lytton,
My A'ot-t/J.
— — — Jock o' : the hero of an old ballad modernized by
Sir Walter Scott
Hazelwood Charles : son of Sir Kobert, who marriei Lucy
Bertram.
Sir Robert : an old baronet [Scott, Guy Mannering].
Headlong, Caprioletta : the Squire's sister, who acted a«
hostess to his guests.
Squire Harry : a Welsh squire who gathers round
him, at Ms ancestral home, a large number of eccentric
people [Peacock, Headlong HaU\.
Badrfcg, C
Headrteg, Cuddie : a ploughman who saves himself from
an ignominious death by astuteness, when under
examination [Rcott, Old Mortality].
Headstone, Bradley : a schoolmaster who lores Lizzie
Hexam, and dies in a hand-to-hand fight with Rider-
hood [Dickens, Our Mutual Friend}.
Heartall, Frank : falls in love with a widow, whom he
marries.
Governor : a peppery but simple-minded old bache
lor, Frank's uncle [Cherry, Soldier' t Daughter}.
Heartfree, Jack : a railer against women ; nevertheless
he falls in love [Vanbrugh, Provoked Wife].
HeartweU : falls in love with Flora Freehold, whom he
marries [Kemble, Farm-Hou*e}.
Heathohff : an example of how ill-usage in youth may
utterly warp an otherwise respectable character [Emily
Bronte, WuOnring Heiglitt}.
Heathen Chinee, The : the hero of a humorous poem
[Bret Harte, Heathen Chinee}.
Heatberblutter, John : gamekeeper to the Baron of Brad-
wardine [Scott, Waverley}.
HeathSeld, Alfred : a young medical student engaged to
Marion Jeddler [Dickens, Battle of Lift}.
Hector de Mares : a brother of Sir Launcf lot du Lac, and a
Knight of the Round Table [Arthurian Cycle].
HEG 141 HEM
Hector ot the Mist : an outlaw killed by Allan M'Aulay
[Scott, Legend of Montrose],
Hedon : a self-indulgent, voluptuous courtier [Ben Jonson,
Cynthia'i Revels].
Heeltap, Crispin : a cobbler [Foote, Mayor of Garratt].
Keep, Mrs. : the mother of Uriah, and very like him.
Uriah : an oily, detestable hypocrite, who always
pretends to be ' unable ' [Dickens, David Copperftdd].
Heidelberg, Mrs. : a vulgar, rich woman, the widow of a
Dutch merchant, keeping house for her brother, Mr.
Sterling [Colman and Garrick, Clandestine Marriage].
Helbeck, Alan : a Roman Catholic landowner, in love with
Laura [Mrs. Humphry Ward, Helbeck of Banntedale}.
Helen : the heroine of the novel [Maria Edgeworth, Helen].
beloved by Modus [Knowles, Hunchback}.
Burd : see Burd, Helen.
Lady : loved Sir Edward Mortimer, who, in aveng
ing an insult, murdered her uncle. He confessed his
crime to her and died [Colman the Younger, Iron Ghent}.
oi Kirconnell : the heroine of a Scottish ballad, ot
which many versions have been printed.
— — Queen ol Corinth : in love with Amphialus [Sidney,
Arcadia}.
Helena : an Athenian woman in love with Demetrius
[Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream}.
• the daughter of Gerard de Narbon. She loved
Bertram, who scorned her love, and after marrying her
at once left her to go to the wars. She won him to her
hi the end [Shakespeare, All's Wttt that Ends Well}.
Helinore, Dame : wife of Malbecco ; she eloped with Sir
Paridel [Spenser, Faery Qtteenel
Hellebore : the president of a Medical College ; a part
played by the author himself [Foote, Devil Upon Two
Stick*}.
Hellicanus : minister of Pericles, who left him to govern
in his own absence from Tyre. The Crown was offered
to Hellicanus, but he remained true to Pericles [Shake
speare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre}.
Helstone, Caroline : a fatherless girl, brought up by her
uncle, the Rector. She marries her counin, Robert
Moore [Charlotte Bronte, Shirley]
the Rev. Mo.uhfirtm : Rector of Briarfleld. A
brave, conscientious, fiery old man, but unsympathetic,
with a poor opinion of women in general, and a violent
Tory. Generally called a ' clerical cossack ' [Charlotte
Bronte, Shirley}.
Hempskirke : serving as captain in the army of the usurp
ing Earl of Flanders [J. Fletcher, Beggar's Bush}.
HEN 142 HER
Henri, Mdlle. : first pupil, then wife of the ' Professor,
[Charlotte Bronte, The Protestor],
Henriqne. Don : the reputed husband of Violante, and
father of Ascanio [Beaumont and Fletcher, Spanish
Citrate].
Henry : a soldier who deserts on hearing that his affianced
bride is about to marry another. Condemned to
death he is reprieved through the efforts of his be
loved [Thomas Dibdin, The Deserter].
— — nephew to Sir Philip Blandford, who had at
tempted the life of Henry's father for the sake of
winning Henry's mother to wife [J. AI. Morton, Speed
the Plough}.
and Emma : the characters in a poem modelled
on the ballad of the tfv* Brown Maid [Prior. Henry and
Emma].
- Poor : the leper prince, for whose sake Elsie offers
to forfeit her life [Longfellow, Golden Legend].
Henslowe : Squire Weiidovcr's low-minded agent [Mrs.
Humphry Ward, Kobari Eltmere].
Hepar : the personification of the Liver [Phineas Fletcher,
Purple Island].
Heraud, Sir: a character in the romance [Sir Guy of Wartricfc].
Hercules : the hero of a play adapted from the Greek of
Seneca [Jasper Heywood, Hercules Fwens}.
— — — the subject of a moral poem [Shenstone, Judgment
of Hercules].
—— Oetaeus : a play written in the Alexandrine
measure and adapted from the Greek of Seneca
[Studley, Hercules Oetaeus}.
Hereward : one of the Varangian Guard of the Emperor of
Greece [Scott, Count Robert of Paris}.
the Wake : the ' last of the English,' who for long
held out against William of Normandy [Charles
Kingsley, Hereward the Wake}.
Herman : the deaf and dumb jailer of the Giant's Mount
dungeon [Stirling, Prisoner o/ State].
Hemiegyld : a convert to Christianity through the teaching
of Constance. She had the power of restoring sight
to the blind [Chaucer, Canterbury Tales : Man of
Lav's Tale}.
Hermegild : a friend of Oswald's and in love with Oswald's
sister, Gartha [Davenant, Gondibert}.
Hermesind : the daughter of Pelayo and Gaudiosa, be
trothed to Alphonso [Southey, Roderick],
Hermia : daughter of Egeus and betrothed 10 Demetrius,
though she marries Lysander [Shakespeare, JMid-
tummer A'ighfs Dream}.
HER 143 HEX
Hermion : wife of Damon, the Pythagorean [Bamim and
Shiel, Damon and Pythias].
Hermione : wife of Damon and Pythias [Baaiin and Shiel,
Damon and Pythias].
- daughter of Menelaoa, King of Sparta. Loved by
Orestes but loving Pyrrhus. She died by her own
hand [Philips, Distressed Mother}.
— — — privately married to Lord Dalgarno [Scott, For
tunes of Nigel].
wrongly suspected of infidelity by her husband
Leontes, she is parted from him for sirteen years,
and then restored to him as a living statue [Shake
speare, Wintcr'i Tale].
Hermit, The : see Edwin and Angelina.
— — The : the hero of a book written In imitation ol
Robinson Crusoe, of which the authorship is not known
[The Hermit; or.UnparalleledAdventwet of PhilipQuarU].
Hermite, Tristan 1', or, Tristan ol the Hospital : Provost-
marshal of France [Scott, Qw-ntin Iturward ; also,
Anne of Gcierstein].
Hermstrong : the hero of the tale, which is a sequel to one
entitled A/an at He It [Bage, Man as He Is Not}.
Hero : daughter of the Governor of Messina. A quiet,
serious girl on the eve of her marriage to Claudio
denounced as unfaithful to him. Her innocence is
proved and the marriage proceeds [Shakespeare,
Much Ado About Nothing}.
and Leander : a long narrative poem in six sestiada
[Marlowe and Chapman, Hero and Leander].
Herrios, Lord : a friend and supporter of Mary, Queen of
Scots [Scott, The Abbo!].
Hesketh, Helen : the heroine [Lockhart, Reginald Dalton}.
Ralph : landlord of the ale-house where the fight
takes place between Eobin Oig and Harry Wakefield
[Scott, Tvx> Drovers}.
Hesperus, Sir : known as the Green Knight, g.v.
Hester : the subject of this poem was a Misa Savory,
a quakeress [Lamb, Hester].
Hetty Sorrel : see Sorrel, Hetty.
Hew : see Hugh of Lincoln.
Hexhara, Charley : son of Jeese, a pupil of Headstone's.
Selfish and cold.
Juse : a ' waterside character ', whose chief
occupation is the recovering of dead bodies from the
Thames. Generally called ' Gaffer '.
Lizzie : daughter of Jeese. She rescues Eugene
Wrayburn from a watery grave, and marries him
[Dickens. Our Mutual Friend}.
HEY 144 HIP
Heylizg, George : a prisoner for debt In the Marshalsea,
and hero of ' The Old Man't Tale about a Queer Client '
[DSckens, PicJacick Papert].
Hiawatha : a Red Indian, the prophet and teacher of his
tribe [Longfellow, Hiau<aiha].
Hickathrift, Thomas or Jack : a poor labourer who killed
a huge giant with an ailetree and cartwheel ; the
hero of a popular old English story.
Hick Scorner : the hero derives his name from his inveterate
habit of scoffing at religion. He is the chief character
in an old Morality play [printed by Wynkyn de VVorde,
Hick Scorner].
Hieronimo : the leading character in the drama, which i«
very bombastic in style [Kyd, Hieronimo].
Higden, Mrs. Betty : an old woman who kept a ' minding-
school ' and a mangle, in a back street of Brentford,
and loathed the idea of a workhouse more than death
[Dickens, Our Mutual Frimd].
Highland Mary : the original of this song was a servant in
the family of a Mr. Hamilton [Bums, Highland Mary}.
Hilda : an artist and a native of New England [Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Marble Faun].
Hfllary, Tom : afterwards Captain Hillary. He was
apprenticed to the Town Clerk, Mr. Lawford [Scott,
Surgeon's Daughter],
Hinchcliffe, Henry Salt : an engine room artificer full of
resource and courage [Kipling, Their Lawful Occasions].
Hinehnp, Dame : a peasant present at the execution of
Meg Murdochson [Scott, Heart of Midlothian}.
Holmes, Sherlock : a marvellous detective and unraveller
of plots [Conan Doyle, Adventuret oi Sherlock
Holme*].
Hinda : daughter of the Emir of Persia and beloved by
Hafed [Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh].
Hint. Betty : the prying servant of the Mac Sycophants
[Macklin, Man of the World].
Hippolita : the bride of Theseus [J. Fletcher, Two Noble
Kinsmen].
— — the leading female character in the comedy, with
whom the dancing master carries on an intrigue
l^vcherley, Gentleman Dancing Matin}.
Hippolyta : a wealthy woman who entertains a dishonour
able passion for Arnoldo [J. Fletcher, Custom of tht
Country].
betrothed to Theseus, Duke of Athens [Sbakesaeare,
Jfidtummcr Niyht's Dream}.
Hirpolytns : the hero of a play adapted froci tii« Greek
of Seneca [Studley, /
H!R 145 HOM
Hiwn : the heroine, but of doubtful character [Peele,
Turkish Mahomet and Hyren, the Fair ffreeJc].
Hokbididance : one of the five fiends that possessed ' poor
Tom ' [Shakespeare, King Lear],
Hobbinol : intended for Gabriel Harvey, a physician and
old college friend of the author's [Spenser, Shepheardt'
Calendar],
Hocus, Humphry : the attorney who acted for John Bull
against Lewis Baboon. Intended for the Duke of
Marlborough [Arbuthnot, History of John Butt}.
Hodeirah : the husband of Zeinab and father of Thalab»
[Southey, Thalaba}.
Hodge : Gammer Gurton's husband, whose garments she
was mending when she lust her needle [attrib. wrongly
to Bishop Still, Gammer Gurton's Ncr.dle}.
Hoel : the son of King Hoel, kidnapped by Ocellopan, an
Aztec, and coniined in a cave [Southey, Ma-
doc].
Hoffmann : the hero of a most gory tragedy [Chettle,
Hoffmann ; or, Rcacngc /or a Father}.
Hohensteil-Schwangau, Prince : the hero of this poem
tries to describe the events of his reign as they appear
in his own eyes or measured by the generally accepted
rules of conduct [R. Browning, Prince HohenftcU-
Schwanyau}.
Holdenough, Nehemiah : a Presbyterian preacher [Scott,
Woodstock}.
Holdfast, Aminadab : a friend of Simon Pure [Mrs. Cent-
livre, BoU, Stroke for a Wife}.
Holgrave, Mr. : the daguerreotypist who persuades
Heprfbah Pyncheon to let him live in one of the gablea
of the old house. His real name is Maul.', and his
family the hereditary foes of the Pyncheons [Nathaniel
Hawthorne, House of the Seven Gables].
Hollingsworth : one of the characters in the story — the only
one with any pretentions to being a man of action
[Nathaniel Hawthorne, Blithedole liomnnrr}.
HoloJernes : a schoolmaster. The name is said to be an
anagram on J'h'nes Floreo or John Florio, the philolo
gist and lexicographer [Shakespeare, Love's Labour's
Losl\
Holt, Felix : the champion of the working men, and the
hero [Gecrge Eliot, Frlix 11'iU, the Radical].
Homespun, Cicely : Zekiel's sister, who marries Dick
Dowlas.
Zeki-l : turned out of his farm, he seeks his fortune
in London, and wins a lot of money in a lottery [Oolinan
the Younger, Heir at Law].
W.W.'. L
HON 146 HOR
Honeycomb, Will : a great authority on the fashions, and,
' where women are not concerned, an honest and worthy
man ' [Steele, Spectator, Essay 77, 359, 499, 511, 530,
etc.].
Honeycombe, Mr. : a self-willed old gentleman that tries
to force his daughter's wishes by locking her into her
room.
Mr». : a foolish half- tipsy old woman, his wife.
Polly : their daughter, with her head stuffed with
romance [Colman the Elder, Potty Honeycombe].
Honeyman, Charles : a worldly, unprincipled clergyman
[Tiiackeray, The Jfewcome*].
Honeythunder, Mr. Luke : the guardian of Neville and
Helena Landless ; a large man with a big voice [Dickens,
Edwin Drood].
Honey wood : the hero, who eventually Marries Miss Rich-
land, when he has learnt to ' reserve his pity for real
distress, and his friendship for true merit '.
Sir William : his uncle, a. high-minded gentleman
[Goldsmith, Good-natured Man}.
Patty : the girl whom Verdant Green loves [Cuth-
bert iiude (Kev. Edward Bradley), Verdant Green].
Honora : daughter of General Arenas and sister of Viola
[Beaumont and Fletcher, Loyal Subject].
Honoria : beloved by Theodore of Ravenna though she
hated him [Dryden, Theodore and Honoria].
Honour, Mrs. : Sophia Western's waiting-woman [Fielding,
Tom Jones].
Hood, Robin : a famous outlaw whose favourite haunt
was Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire. He has for
centuries been a favourite subject for English ballads
and romances.
Hope, Edward : the Deerbrook doctor who upholds his
political views at the expense of local persecution
[Harriet Martineau, Deerbrook].
— — — Evelyn : a young girl of sixteen on whom a middle-
aged man fixes his affections [R. Browning, Dramatic
Lyrics : Erdyn Hope].
Hopeful : Christian's companion after Faithful's death
[Bunyan, The Pttgrim'i Progreti].
Hopkins, Jack : a medical student and friend of Bob
Sawyer's [Dickens, Pickwick Papers].
Horace de Brienne : engaged to Diana de Lascours, but
marries her sister Ogarita [Stirling, Orphan of the
Frozen Sea].
Horatia : daughter of the ' Roman Father ', and slaiu by
her brother Publius [Whitehead, Roman father].
Horatio : the friend of Lord Allamont, who discovers
HOR 147 HUB
Lothario's treachery to him. Allamont fights Lothario
and kills him [Howe, fair Penitent}.
Horatio: Hamlet's one true and faithful friend and counsellor
[Shakespeare, Hamlet}.
— — — the hero of the novel [Horace Smith, Horatio ; or,
Memoirs of the Davenport Family}.
Horatiua Coclei : the man who ' held the Bridge, in the
brave days of old ', against the hosts of Tarquin
[Macaulay, Lay* of Ancient Rome : Horatius}.
Horn, King : the hero of a metrical romance, dating back,
according to Bishop Percy, to the twelfth century.
Hortense, Mademoiselle : intended for a portrait of Mrs.
Manning, the murderess [Dickens, Bleak House}.
Eorteusio : a very valiant and chivalrous man [Massinger,
Bashful Lover}.
suitor for Bianca [Shakespeare, Taming of the
Shrew}.
Houseman : a character in the novel [Lytton, Eugent
Aram}.
Hounslow : one of the gang of thieves who arranged to rob
Lady Bountiful [Farquhar, Beaux' Stratagem].
Honssain, Prince : the owner of a magic carpet, that he
had only to sit upon in order to be transported wherever
he wished [Arabian Nights}.
Howe, Miss : Clarissa's friend and adviser [Richardson,
Clarissa Harlowe}.
Howie, Jamie : Malcolm Bradwardme's baillie [Scott,
Wavcrley}.
Howlaglass, Master : a preacher, and the friend of Maul-
statue [Scott, Peveril of the Peak}.
Howleglas, Father : plays the part of the Abbot of Un
reason at the revels at Kennaquhair Abbey [Scott,
The Abbot}.
Hoyden, Miss : an ignorant, country romp [Vanbrugh, The
Jt elapse], also in Sheridan's adaptation of same play,
Trip to Scarborough}.
Hrolhgar : the King of Denmark delivered by Beowulf from
the Monster, Urendel [litviculf}.
Hubble, Mr. and Mrs. : a wheelwright and his wife, very
much his j unior. Friends of Mrs. Joe Gargery [Dickens,
Great Expectation!},
Hubert : a brother of Prince Oswald, and wounded by
Hurgonel [Davenant, Gondibert}.
in love with Jaculin, the daughter of Gerrar<l, King
of the Beggars [J. Fletcher, Beggar's Bush}.
King John's chamberlain, and ordered by him to
have Prince Arthur's eyes put out [Shakespeare, h'ing
John},
HUD 148 HUN
Hndibras : the hero of a satire directed against the Pan tana
[Butler, Sudibrat].
Sir : a melancholy man in whom, it is thought,
the author wished to portray the Puritans [Spenser,
Faery Queene].
Hndjadge : a Shah of Persia, to cure whose sleeplessness
Moradbak told the Oriental Tales [Comte de Caylus,
Oriental Talet].
Hudson, Sir Geoffrey : a dwarf, and page to Queen Henrietta
Maria [Scott, Pevertt of the Peak}.
Hugh : servant at the Maypole Inn, Chigwell, and leader
of the ' No Popery ' riots, for which he was executed
[Dickens, Barnaby Rudge],
of Lincoln : it is asserted that the Jews of Lincoln
kidnapped and crucified a little boy of eight, and then
cast him into a pit. The story ia constantly referred
to in the literature of the Middle Ages [Chaucer, Can
terbury Talet : The Prioress's Tale ; also Percy,
Reliques : The Jew's Daughter}.
Hugo : the natural son of the Marquis of Este [Byron,
Paritina].
of diminutive height but very brave ; the brother
of Arnold [Davenant, Oondibert].
Hoghie Graham : the subject of a Scottish ballad, who was
hanged for stealing a bishop's mare [Border J/in-
ardsi/].
Humgudizreon, Grace-be-here : a corporal In Cromwell's
anoy [Scott, Woodstock}.
Humphrey Clinker : tee Clinker, Humphrey.
Master : deformed old gentleman, very kindly, the
founder of a club of which Mr. Pickwick be
comes a member [Dickens, Matter Humphrey's
Clock].
Hnncamunca : the daughter of King Arthur and Queen
Dollallolla [Fielding, Tom Thumb the Great].
Hunsden, Mr. : a rough but kindly manufacturer [Charlotte
Bronte, Professor].
Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Leo : for ever hunting up society
' linns ' [Dickens, Pickwick Papers}.
Huntingdon, David, Earl o! : Prince royal of Scotland, who
first appears as Sir Kenneth, and later as the Nubian
slave, Zohauk [Scott, Talisman].
—— Earl of : a baron outlawed by King Henry II. He
lives in the woods and is finally restored to his own.
In spite of difficulties he married Maid Marian [Peacock,
Maid Marian].
Robert, Earl ol : generally called Kobin Hood :
see Hood, Robin.
HUO 149 IBB
Huon : a serf who {alia in love with his pupil, Lady Cath
erine [Knowles, Lave].
— — of Bordeaux, Sir : married Esclairmond and suc
ceeded Oberon as King of Fairyland [Old Romance].
Hurgonel, Count : affianced to Orna, the sister of Gondi-
bert [Davenant, Oondibert],
Horlothrnmbo : the hero of an absurd play which is a
jumble of dialogues [Dr. 8. Johnson, Hwlothrumbo ;
or, The Supernatural].
Hurry : the manservant at Oldworth Oaks [Burgoyne,
Maid of the Oaks].
Hushai : intended for Hyde, Earl of Rochester [Dryden,
Abtalom and Achitophcl}.
Hurst, Mrs. : a married sister of Mr. Bingley's [Jane Austin,
Pride and Prejudice].
Hutley, Jem : known as ' Dismal Jemmy ', an actor and
friend of Mr. Alfred Jingle [Dickens, Pickwick Paperi],
Hyanisbe : a character supposed by some to be intended for
Queen Elizabeth [Barclay, Argcni*].
Hyde, Mr. : the second self of Dr. Jekyll [Stevenson,
Strange Gate of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde}.
Hyder Ali Khan Behauder : the Nawaub of Mysore [Scott,
Surgeon't Daughter].
Hypatia : the daughter of Theon ; very learned In mathe
matics and philosophy, which she taught in Alexandria.
She was attacked by a band of fanatics and killed.
She Is the heroine|of a novel [Charles Kingsley, ffypatia].
Hyperion : god of the son who, upon the fall of the Titans,
had to make way for the new sun-god, Apollo [Keats,
Hyperion].
• t!ie subject of a prose romance [Longfellow,
Hyperion].
Vythloday, Raphael : Portuguese adventurer who dis
covered Utopia [Sir Thomas More, Utopia].
Schimo : a treacherous Italian whose conduct brinja
much sorrow to Imogen [Shakespeare, Cymbeline}.
lago : the villain who poisons Othello's mind against
Desdemona [Shakespeare, Othello].
lanthe : one of the characters which the noted actress,
Mrs. Betterton, used to take [Davenant, Siege of
Ithodet].
— — — one of the characters hi a narrative poem [Shelley,
Queen Mab].
Ibbotson, Hester : cousin to Mr. Grey. She marries Edward
Hope, the doctor.
Margaret : her sister, who marries Philip Knderby
[Harriet Martineau, Deerbrook].
IDA 150 INK
Ida : a believer in the emancipation of women, for which
purpose she founds a college [Alfred Tennyson, The
Princess}.
Idenstein : njphew of the governor of Prague and married
to Adolpha [Knowles, Maid of Mariendorpt].
Igerna, or Igrayne : wife of Gorlois, Duke of Tintagil, and
mother of King Arthur. Tennyson spells the name
Ygerne [Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King : Pasting
of Arthur].
Ignaro : fester-father of Orgoglio ; he looked one way and
walked another [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Dohester, Janet : the heiress of Squire Beltham, after he
has disinherited Harry Richmond. A spoilt girl, who
developes into a fine type of woman. She marries
Harry Richmond [George Meredith, Adventures of
Harry Richmond],
Imlac : traveller and poet, and the son of a wealthy mer
chant. Imlac was Rasselas's companion on his
rambles [Dr. 8. Johnson, Rasielas].
Imogen : falsely accused of infidelity to Posthumus, she,
after much tribulation, establishes her innocence
[Shakespeare, CymbeHne}.
Imogine, The Fan- : tec Alonzo.
Imoinda : her father migrated to Angola, and she married
Oronooko, a coloured man [Southern, Oronooko (a
play) ; Mrs. Aphr-Behn, Oronooko (a novel)].
Inez, Donna : the mother of the hero [Byron, Don
Juan].
de Castro : secretly married to Prince Pedro of
Portugal, whose father, King Alfonso, compelled her
to drink poison [Rose Neil, Inez de Castro ; or, Bride
of Portugal],
' Infant Phenomenon ' : see Crummies, Miss Ninetta.
Ingelram, Abbot : at one time superior at St. Mary's Con
vent [Scott, Monastery],
Inglesant, John : Played an important and noble role in
the courts of England and Italy during the English
Civil War [Shorthouse, John Inglesant],
Inglewood, Squire : a magistrate [Scott, Rob Roy}.
Inglis, Corporal : in the Duke of Monmouth's army [Scott,
Old Mortality],
Ingrain, Edward : the great friend of Sheila Mackenzie and
Frank Lavender, through whom they came to know
one another. He marries an American girl [Black,
Princess of Thule}.
Inkle, Mr. Thomas : marries an Indian girl named Yarico,
whom he [afterwards sells into slavery [Steele, Spec
tator, No. 11].
INT 151 ISA
Interpreter, Mr. : intended to symbolize the Holy Spirit.
He lives just beyond the Wicket Gate [Bunyan, Pil-
grim't Progress].
Intrigo : a character upon which Mrs. Centlivre based
hers of Marplot [Fane, Love in tke Dark].
lolande : the heroine [Sir Henry Taylor, St. Clement's Eve].
Iphigenia : the subject of a tragedy taken from the story
of Iphigenia in Tauris, and acted hi 1700 at Lincoln's
Inn Fields [Dennis, Iphigenia}.
a girl \vho has been brought up as a man, and whose
notions cf propriety are vague [Suckling, Brennoralt].
Ipomydon : the subject of an Early English Romance [Lift
of Ipomydon].
Iras : an attendant on the Queen of Egypt [Shakespeare,
Anthony and Cleopatra ; also Dryden, All for Love].
Irene : wife of the Emperor of Greece [Scott, Talisman].
daughter of the Greek renegade, Horush Barbarossa,
and married to Selim [Brown, Barbaroita].
Irenus : the personification of JPeaceableness [Phineas
Fletcher, Purple liland}.
Ironside, Sir : "the Red Kight of the Red Lands ', who
kept the lady Lyonors or Liones a prisoner in Castle
Perilous [Mallory, History of Prince Arthur].
Ironsides, Captain : uncle of Belfield and friend of Sir
Benjamin Dove [Cumberland, Brothers].
Irwin, Ellen : the subject of a legendary poem [Words
worth, KUen Irwin; or, the Braes of Kirtle].
Lady Eleanor : wife of Lord Norland.
Mr. : married to a daughter of Lord Norland, he
robs him, but repents and returns the money [Mrs.
luchbald, Every One. ha, Ilis Fault}.
Irwine, Mr. : a clergyman [George Eliot, Adam Bede].
Isaac Mendoza : tee Mendoza, Isaac.
of York : a rich Jew persecuted by the followers
of King John [Scott, Jvanhoe].
Isabell : the sister of Lady Hartwell [Beaumont and
Fletcher, Wit Without Money].
Isabella : the heroine of a story taken from Boccaccio
[Keats, Isabella ; or, The Pot of Basil].
wife of Hieronimo [Kyd, Spanish Tragedy],
the mother of the Duke [Massinger, Duke of Milan].
' the sister of Claudio, and in love with Angelo
[Shakespeare, Measure for Measure}.
a nun, who marries Biron and then marries Villeroy,
believing Biron to be dead. She goes mad [Southern,
Fatal Marriage}.
assists Zanga in his plots against Don Alonzo
[Young, The Revenge].
ISA 152 JAC
Isabella Donna : daughter of Don Pedro. To avoid a
distasteful marriage she leaps from a window and
marries her rescuer [Mrs. Centlivre, The Wonder}.
i The Countess : the wife of Roberto. Aftrr a life
of crime, she is executed [Thomas Morton, Wonder of
Women ,' or, Sophonisb'i}.
The Lady : a lovely girl who was, by her step
mother's orders, cut up and ' made into a meat-pie '
[Percy, Ileliques : The Lady Iiabella'i Tragedy}.
Isabinda : the daughter of Sir Jealous Trafflck. She, by a
ruse, marries the man she loves instead of the one her
father favours [Mrs. Centlivre, Busy Body].
Isenbras, Sir : a hero of mediaeval romance.
Iseult : Tristram's lady-love, though the wife of King
Mark [Alfred Tennyson, IdyUs of the King : Last
Tournament; also Matthew Arnold, Tristram and
limit].
Ishbosheth : intended for P.ichard Cromwell, son of the
Protector [Dryden, Absalom and Achtlophd].
Ismaei : the hero of an oriental tale published when the
author was only fifteen [Lytton, Ismad].
Isolde, Isolt, Isond, Yseult, or Ysolt : tec Iseult.
Isoline : daughter of the governor of Messina and wife of
Fernando. Father and husband both died hi the
' Sicilian Vespers ', and Jsoliue died of a broken heart
[Knowles, John of Procida}.
Isnmbras, Sir : the hero of an early Esglish romance, in
verse.
Item : a money-broker and a thorough rillain [Holcroft,
Deserted Daughter}.
Itoocles : in love with Calantha, a Princess of Sparta [Ford,
Broken Heart].
Ith oriel : one of the angels whose duty it was to watch
over Adam and Eve at night [Milton, Paradire Lost}.
Ivanhoe, Wilfred of : son of Cedric the Saxon ; disinherited
for becoming a Crusader [Scott, Ivanhoe}.
Ivan Ivanovitch : the subject of the poem, the scene of
which is laid in Russia [R. Browning, Dramatic IdyUt :
Ivan Jvanovilrh].
I'wain : the Knight of the Lion [Arthurian Cycle].
Jabos, Jack : postilion at the Golden Arms, tie inn of which
Mrs. M'Candlish was landlady [Scott, Guy Mannering}.
Jachin : the parish clerk. He stole the Holy Communion
money [Crabbe. The Borough}.
Jacinth a : reputed wife of Octavio [Beaumont and Fletchej
Spanish Curate].
JAG 153 JAQ
Jatintha : an heiress and ward of Mr. Strickland, who elope*
with Bellamy [Hoadley, Suspicious Husband}.
Jack, Colonel : the hero [Defoe, History of the Most Re-
maskable Life and Kxtraordinary A dventures of the truly
Bon. Colonel Jacqw, vulgarly called Colond Jack}.
intended for John Calvin [Arbuthnot, History of
John Bull ; also Swift, Tale of a Tub}.
Jackman, Major Jemmy : one of Mrs. Lirriper's lodgera
[Dickens, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings}.
Jackson, Mr. : a clerk of Messrs. Dodson and Fogg [Dickens,
Pickwick Papers}.
Jacomo : a woman-hater, with whom Frederick's sister is
in love [Beaumont and Fletcher, The Captain}.
Jacqueline : the subject of a story told in verse [Rogers,
Jacqueline}.
Jacques : manservant to the Duke of Aranza ; the duke
deputes him to personate himself [Tobin, Honeymoon].
Jaculin : daughter of the king of the beggars, and loved
by Lord Hubert [J. Fletcher, Beggar's Bush}.
Jacyinth : the maid who slept whilst her mistress was
being bewitched by a gipsy [R. Browning, Flight of
the Duchess}.
Jaffier : Belvidera's husband [Otway, Venire Preserved].
Jaggers, Mr. : an old Bailey advocate [Dickens, Ortat Ex
pectations}.
Jakin, Bob : the packman who is kind to Tom Tulliver
[George Eliot, Mill on the Floss].
James, Truthful : the supposed author of the Heathen
Chinee and other humorous poems [Bret Harte,
Heathen Chinee}.
Jamie, Don : the ill-treated younger brother of Don
Henrique [Beaumont and Fletcher, Spanish Curate].
Jamieson, Bet : nurse at Dr. Gray's, the Middleman surgeon
[Scott, Surgeon's Daughter].
Janet : Miss Betsey Trotwood's housemaid [Dickens, David
Copper fold}.
Dempster : see Dempster, Janet
Jane Eyre : see Eyre, Jane.
Shore : see Shore, Jane.
Janfaries, Katherine : the heroine of the ballad on which
Scott based his ' Young Loehinrar '.
Jaquenetta : a country girl courted by Don Adriano da
Armado [Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost}.
Jaqnes : servant to Sulpltia, a woman of ill repute [J.
Fletcher, Custom of the Country].
• a miser [Ben Jonson, Case is Altered}.
• ' could suck melancholy out of a song, a« a weasel
ticks eggs ' [Shakespeare, As You Like ll\.
JAR 154 JEN
Jarley, Mr?. : owner of the wai-work show with which
Little Nell and her grandfather travel [Dickens, Old
Curiosity Shop].
Jarndyce, John : a philanthropist, whose suite in Chancery
is intended as a satire on that Court [Dickens, Bleak
House}.
Jarvie, Baillie Nicol : a shrewd and very cautious Glasgow
magistrate [Scott, Rob Roy}.
Jarvis : a devoted servant who tries to shield Beverley
from his passion for the gaming table [Edward Moore,
Gamester}.
Jasper : a highway robber, and a murderer, who becomes
a maniac [Sou they, Jaipur : a ballad].
Jasper, Sir : the father of Charlotte. The play is based on
Moliere's Le Medecin Malgrt Lui [Fielding, Mock
Doctor}.
Javan : the chief character in a sort of allegorical play
[Montgomery, World Before the Flood}.
Jeames de la Pluche : a footman who unexpectedly in
herits a large fortune [Thackeray, Diary of Jeames de
la Pluche, Esq.}.
Jeanie Morrison : tee Morrison, Jeanie.
Jeanne of Alsace : a girl ruined by the highwayman Dubosc
[Stirling, Courier of Lyons}.
Jeddler, Doctor Anthony : a kind and generous man who
esteemed himself a great philosopher.
Grace and Marion : his beautiful daughters, both in
love with the same man [Dickens, Buttle of Life].
Jekyll, Dr. : a noble-minded doctor whose second self was
the villain Hyde [Stevenson, Strange Cote of ~^-
JekyU and Mr. Hyde}.
Jellicot, Old Goody : servant at the under-keeper's hut a,
Woodstock [Scott, Woodstock].
Jellyby, Caroline : generally called * Caddy '. Over
worked and neglected but good. She marries Prince
Turveydrop.
— — Mrs. : a pleasant-looking woman who is so devoted
to philanthropy outside her own home that she has no
time to attend to her domestic duties.
' Peepy ' : her neglected son [Dickens, Bleak
House}.
Jenkin : the servant of the Pinner of Wakefield [Greene,
George-a-Green, the Pinner of Wakefield}.
Jenkins, Bliss Deborah : a profound admirer of Dr. Johnson
and a great stickler for form and ceremony.
• M its Mattie : the gentle little sister of Miss Deborah
Jenkins, whom everyone loved and honoured, and who
was rescued from want by her brother Peter.
JEN 155 JIN
Jenkins, Mr. Peter : their brother, who runs away as a boy,
and returns to make Mattie happy when he hears she
ia poor and alone [Mrs. Gaskell, Cranford].
Winifred : Miss Tabitha Bramble's maid [Smollett,
Humphry Clinker].
Jenkinson, Ephraim : a swindler who imposes upon the
Vicar, and upon Moses Primrose [Goldsmith, Vicar of
Wakefleld].
Mrs. Mountstuart : a rich, clever widow who rules
the county in which Sir Willoughby Patterne lives
[George Meredith, The Egoist].
Jenkison, Mr. : ' the statu-quoite ', an Amiable crank in
the party at Squire Headlong's [Peacock, Headlong
Hall].
Jennings, Mrs. : a vulgar but good-natured match-maker
[Jane Austen, Seme and Sensibility].
Jenny Diver : tee Diver, Jenny.
Wren : tee Cleaver, Fanny.
Jermyn, Matthew : a lawyer, the husband of Mrs. Transome
and father of Harold [George Eliot, Felix Holt].
Jerningham, Master Thomas : in the service of the Duke
of Buckingham [Scott, PeverU of the Peak].
Jerome, Don : father of Don Ferdinand and Louisa ; pig
headed but affectionate [Sheridan, Duenna}.
Jeronimo, or Heironymo : the principal character in the
play [Kyd, Spanish Tragedy].
Jerry : the ownor of a troop of performing dogs [Dickens,
Old Curiosity Shop].
Jervis, Mrs. : the squire's housekeeper [Richardson,
Pamela].
Jess : the woman who patiently viewed the world from her
cottage window for twenty years [Barrie, Window in
Thrums],
Jessamy : a popinjay who proposes to Clarissa Flowerdale
and ia rejected by her [Bickerstafl, Lionel and Claritta].
Jessica : the daughter of Shylock, who elopes with Lorenzo
[Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice].
Jessie, the Flower o' Dunblane : the subject of a song
[Tannahill, Charming Young Jettie, etc.].
Jew, The Wandering : varying stories relate to him. One
is, that, as Jesus rested for a moment, bearing His cross,
a cobbler, Ahasuerus by name, pushed him, crying,
' Get on, away with you,' and Jesus answered, ' Truly
I go away quickly, but tarry thou till I come '. Ahasu
erus has had to wander about, waiting, ever since.
Jewkes, Mrs. : an offensive character [Richardson, Pamela,}.
Jin Via : Jenkin Vincent, an apprentice in love with
Margaret Ramsay [Scott, Fortunet o/ Nigel].
JIN 156 JOL
Jingle, Alfred : a strolling actor, and a swindler, who
sponges on Mr. Pickwick [Dickens, Pickwick Papers].
Jiniwin, Mrs. : the mother of Mrs. Quilp [Dickens, Old
Curiosity Shop].
Jinkins, Mr.: a character In ' The Bagman's Story ' [Dickent,
Pickwick Paper*}.
Jip : Dora's pet dog [Dickens, David Copperfield}.
Jo : a poor crossing-sweeper known as ' Toughey ' [Dickens,
Bleak Saute].
Joanna: Mr. Mordent's deserted daughter [Holcroft,
Deterted Dauy!Uer].
Joblinjf, Tony : a law-writer known as ' Weevle ' [Dickens,
Bleak Boute].
Dr. John : medical officer to a Loan and Lite
Insurance Company [Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit].
Jobson. Joseph : clerk to Squire Inglewood [Scott, Rob
Roy}.
Jobson, Keil : Zekel's meek wife, taught by blows to obey.
Znkel : a cobbler who ruled his wife with a rod of
iron [Coffey, Devil to Pay].
Jocelyn, Lady : the mother of Rose Jocelyn. A woman
full of strong common-sense and kindness.
— — Rote : a high-spirited girl of good position. She
meets Evan Harrington hi Portugal, and after many
dimculties marries him [George Meredith, Evan Ear-
rinffton].
Jock o' Hazeldean : tee Hazeldean, Jock o*.
Joe. The Fat Boy : Fat Boy.
John Anderson : tee Anderson, John.
— — — Don : a rather fox>lish but honourable Spaniard
[Beaumont and Fletcher, The Chances}.
—— Don : an ill-conditioned man who tries to injure
Hero in the eyes of Claudio, on the eve of their marriage
[Shakespeare, Much Ado Abo'jt Nothing}.
— — — Friar : a Franciscan Friar [Shakespeare, Romeo
and Juliet}.
—— Little : one of Robin Hood's companions often
referred to in ballads, etc.
Johnnie o! Braidislee : an outlaw and deerstealer, the
hero of an old ballad [Johnnie of Braidislee].
Johnny : Betty Higden'g baby, who died [Dickens, Ovr
Mutual Friend].
Johnstone, Auld Willie : an old fisherman [Scott, Ouy
Mannertng}.
JoliSe, Joceline : under-keeper at Woodstock [Scott,
Woodstock}.
Joliquet, Bibo : the waiter at the White Lion, an inn kept
by Jerome Lesurques [Stirling, Courier of Lyont].'
JOL 157 JUL
Jollup, Sir Jacob : owner of Gerratt, a pompous and vulgar
man [Foote, Mayor of Garratl].
Jonas : intended for the attorney-general, Sir William
Jones [Dryden, Abtalom and Achitop'nel}.
Jonathan : a man whom Sir Benjamin Dove had raised
from want and who served him as butler [Cumberland,
Brother*}.
Jones, Tom : generous and manly but dissipated [Fielding,
Tom Jonet}.
Jorkins, Mr. : Mr. Spenlow's partner [Dickens, David
Copperfidd}.
Josceline, Sir : a crusader [Scott, Taluman].
Jose, Don : husband of Donna Inez, and father of Don
Juan [Byron, Don Juan].
Joseph : a very generous and benevolent Jew [Knowles,
At aid of Mariendorpt}.
the canting servant of Heathcliff [Emily Bronte,
Wulheriny HeigM*}.
Andrews : see Andrews, Joseph.
Josephine : the mother of Werner [Byron, Wer
ner].
Josian : wife of Sir Bevis of Southampton, who gave him
his sword ' Morglay ', and ' Arundel ' his charger
[Drayton, Polyolbion].
Joyeuse : the Emperor Charlemagne's sword.
Juan : a troubadour [George Eliot, Spanish Oypty].
Don : a native of Seville, son of Don Jose1 and
Donna Inez [Byron, Don Juan].
Juba : a friend of Cato's and loving Cato's daughter, to
whom he was married [Addison, Colo],
Judith, Aunt : the sister of George Heriot [Scott, Fortune
of Nigel].
Juletta : Alinda's maid [J. Fletcher, Pilyrim].
Julia : the hunchback's ward, betrothed to Sir Thomas
Clifford [Knowles, Hunchback}.
the heroine of the novel [Mackenzie, Julia de
Roubigne].
a lady loved by Protheus [Shakespeare, T*o
Gentlemen of Verona}.
the patient object of Falkland's jealousy [Sheridan,
Rivalt].
- • Donna : a Sevillian of Moorish extraction, with
whom Juan feU in love at the age of sixteen [Byron,
Don Juan].
Julian : the subject of a tragedy [Mary R. Mitford, Julian].
and Maddalo : Julian is intended for Shelley him
self, Maddalo for Lord Byron [Shelley, Julian and
Maddalo : a Convention].
JUL 153 KAT
Julian, Count : the hero of a very impressive tragedy. The
author's first attempt in the field of drama [Landor,
Count Julian}.
Count : the chief instrument in the fall of Roderick.
It was he who inrited the Moors to force him from the
Spanish throne [Southey, Roderick].
Juliana : a saintly woman, the wife of Virolet [Beaumont
and Fletcher, Double Marriage].
^— married to the Duke of Aranza, who schools her
from pride and arrogance to affectionate modesty
[Tobin, Honeymoon].
Lady : daughter to Lord Courtland, a frivolous
and extravagant girl, who elopes with Henry Douglas,
a penniless lifeguards mail [Susan E. Ferrier, Marriage}.
Julie de Mortemar : an orphan under the guardianship of
Richelieu. Louis XIII was one of many admirers,
but she married Adrien de Mauprat [Lytton, Richelieu].
Juliet : beloved by Claudio [dhakespeare, Measure for
Measure}.
the daughter of the Capulets, whose self-devotion
was rendered of no avail because of Romeo's despair
[Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet].
Julio : in love with Lelia, a widow of no repute [Beaumont
and Fletcher, The Captain}.
— — oi Harancour : a deaf and dumb boy abandoned
in the streets of Paris. He is rescued and brought
up by De 1'Epee, and afterwards recognized and restored
to his rightful position as Count of Harancour [Hoi-
croft, Deaf and Dumb}.
Jnpe, Cecilia : the daughter of the clown, adopted by
Thomas Gradgrind [Dickens, Hard Timet}.
-* Signer : a clown in a circus [Dickens, Hard Timet].
Kailyal : the heroine — a daughter of Ladurlad [Southey,
Curse of Kehama].
Kalasrade : the wife of Sedak [Ridley, Tale* of the Genii].
Kaied : the name assumed by Gulnaie when she disguised
herself as Lara's page [Byron, Lara}.
Kama! : an outlaw and border chief, who allows his son
to enter the Empress of India's service [Kipling,
East and Wett].
Karenina, Anna : the heroine [Tolstoi, Anna Karenina].
Katerfelto : a noted quack [Cowper, The Task}.
Katherins : one of the Princess of France's attendants
[Shakespeare, Love"t Labour's Lost}.
the ' Shrew ', elder daughter of Baptista of Padua
[Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrnc}.
Kathleen : the heroine of a very popular Irish song [Mrs.
Crawford, Kathleen Mavourneen}.
KAT 159 KEY
Katinka : one of the three beautiful girls in the harem
into which Don Juan penetrated in disguise [Byron,
Don Juan].
Katusha : a girl sent to Siberia for a crime she did not
commit [Tolstoi, Resurrection}.
Kavanagh : a clergyman, who marries Cecilia Vaughan,
the heroine [Longfellow, Kavanagh}.
Kay, Sir : King Arthur's foster-brother, and seneschal at
his court [Mallory, History of Prince Arthur].
Kearney, Kate : the subject of a pathetic Irish song [Lady
Morgan, Kate Kearney}.
Kecksey : a wretched old man who pretends he prefers a
termagant and a flirt aa wife [Oarrick, Irish Widow].
Keeldar, Shirley : the heroine. ' To admire the great,
reverence the good, and be joyous with the genial, was
very much the bent of Shirley's soul.' She marries
Louis Moore [Charlotte Bronte, Shirley].
Keene, Abel : a village schoolmaster who became a clerk.
He commits suicide [Crabbe, The Borough].
Kehama : a mighty rajah who was cursed with ' immortal
death ' [Southey, Curie of Kehama].
Keiner, General : Governor of Prague [Knowles, Maid of
Marimdorpt].
Keznpferhaasen : one of the speakers [Wilson, Node*
Ambrosianae].
Kenge, Mr. : known as ' Conversation Kenge ' because he
so loved to hear his own voice [Dickens, Bleak House].
Kennedy, Frank : an excise officer who is murdered by
smugglers [Scott, Guy Mannering}.
Kenneth, Sir : the ' Knight of the Leopard ', really the
Prince Royal of Scotland [Scott, Talisman}.
Kenrick, Felix : a faithful servant : the faster-father of
Caroline Dormer [Colman the Younger, Heir at Law}.
Kent, Earl of : under the name of Caius he waits on Lear,
and takes him to Dover Castle [Shakespeare, AT in? Lear}.
Kenwigs, Mr. and Mrs. : an ivory turner and his wife, who
consider themselves very ' genteel '.
The Misses : pupils of Nicholas [Dickens, Xichola*
Kera Khan : a Tartar chief at war with Poland [Kemble,
Ladoiska].
Kettle, Captain : an amusing, pugnacious man, the hero
of several books [Hyne, Adventures of Captain Kritl?}.
Kettledrummle, Gabriel : a Covenanter preacher [Scott, Old
Mortality].
Kevin. St. : fled to a rock at Glendalough to escape from
the fascinations of Kathleen. She followed him thither
KEW 169 KIT
and he cast her into the sea [Thomas Moore, Iritk
Melodiet : St. Kevin}.
Kew, Countess ol : a domineering society lady [Thackeray,
The Nevcomet}.
Key, Sir : tee Kay, Sir.
Kea'a : a ' bad-tempered, good-hearted housemaid ' [George
Eliot, Mia on Ike Floss].
Kickleburys, The : the heroes of a Christmas book [Thack
eray, Kickleburys on the Rhine].
Kifri : the personification of Atheism and Blasphemy. He
was an enchanter and a giant [Ridley, Tales of the
Genii : Enchanter's Tale].
Kilmansegg, Miss : an heiress with a golden leg [Thomas
Hood, Miss KUmanscn}.
Kim : the son of an English soldier, reared by a half-caste
[Kipling, Kim}.
Kin?. Tom : ' a rowdy, joking dog ' [Moncrieffe, Mm.
Tonson].
Kinmont, Willie : a notorious freebooter, the hero of a
ballad [Border Minstrelsy}.
Kionis : a strange, hot-tempered gipsy girl, half in love
with Harry Richmond [George Meredith, Adventure*
of Harry Richmond].
Klrby, Carinthia Jane : an English girl brought up in
Austria. On her first entry into society she meets
and accepts the Earl of Fleetwood and marries him,
but is at once forsaken, and when he attempts a re
conciliation she declines.
Chillon John : the brother of the Countess of
Fleetwood. An athletic and handsome man who
marries the beautiful Henrietta Fakenham [George
Meredith, Amazing Marriage}.
Kirkpatrick, Cynthia : Dr. Gibson's step-daughter.
Mrs. : becomes the second wife of Dr. Gibson
[Mrs. Gaskell, Wives and Daughters}.
Kirkrapine : a robber of churches, giving the proceeds of
his thefts to Abessa [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Kit : see Nubbles, Christopher.
Kite, Sergeant : a recruiting officer [Farquhar, Recrutttny
Officer}.
Kitely : a rich London merchant, very jealous of his wife
[Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour].
Kitty : a wild, harum-scarum girl who arranges to elope
with Random [Colman the Younger, Ways and if earn].
one of Mr. Level's servants, who ape the manners
of their masters and mistresses [Townley, High Life
Below Stair,}.
KNA 161 LAD
Knag, Miss : Mme. Mantalini's forewoman, who first
adores, then hates, Kate Nickleby [Dickens, Nicholat
Niekleby].
Knight, The : the type of noble, courageous, yet humble
chivalry [Chaucer, Canterbury Talcs : The Knight's
Tale].
Knightley, Mr. : the hero of the tale, who in the end marries
Emma Wooclhouse [Jane Austen, Emma].
Knoekwinnock, Sybil : wife of Sir Richard of the Redhand,
and mother of Malcolm Misbegot [Scott, The Antiquary}.
Knowell, the Elder : a character supposed to have been
acted by Shakespeare. He is an elderly man of
sententious humour, very anxious about the moral
well-being of his son [Ben Jonson, Every Man in His
Humour].
Koeldwethout, Baron Von : hero of one of the tales told
at the inn where Nicholas and Squeers were detained
by an accident to the coach [Dickens, Nicholas
SirMcby],
Krook, Mr. : the drunken proprietor of a rag and bone
shop, said to have died of spontaneous combustion
[Dickens, Bleak Houte].
Kubla Khan : the prince who built the ' pleasure-dome '
the poet saw in his dream [S. T. Coleridge, Kubla
Khan].
La Creevy, Miss : a merry little woman, a miniatur
painter [Dickens, Nicholas Xicklebij].
La Roche : a Swiss Pastor travelling through France with
his daughter [Mackenzie, Story of La Kochc}.
La ValEere, Louise. Duchesse de : betrothed to the Marquis
Ue Bragalune, but in Icve with Louis XIV [Lytton,
Duchess de la Vattitre].
Labe Queen : Queen of the Island of Enchantments, who
got transformed into a mare [Arabian Nitjhts],
Lackitt, Widow : falls in love with Charlotte Weldon when
that lady impersonates Mr. Weldon [Southern,
Oroonoko].
Lacy, Sir Damian de : nephew of Sir Hugo.
Sir Hugo de : a crusader, and the constable of
Chester.
A'tr Randal de : cousin to Sir Hugo, who appears
under various guises [Sir W. Scott, lietrothed].
Ladulaiu : a humorous cynic [Massinger, The 1'ictwe}.
Ladisli-v. Will : an artist in love with Dorothea, whom h«
marries after Casaubon's death [George Eliot
march].
W.W.F. M
LAD 162 LAM
Ladurlad : the father of Kailyal [Southey, Curie of
Kfhama}.
Lady of the Bleeding Heart : fee Douglas, Ellen.
of the Lake : tfe Vivien ; also Douglaa, Ellen.
Ladylift. Elinor : the girl Paul Ferrol loved, though he was
inveigled by Laura Chanson into marrying her instead
[Mrs. Archer Clive, Why Paul Ferrol KiUed 7/i.t W He}.
Laertes : his wife having been spared by Guatavw Vasa,
he henceforth is the trusty sen-ant of the king's daugh
ter, Cliristina [Brooke, (iuslavut Fata].
— ^— son of Polonius, and brother of Ophelia, it is he
who uses a poisoned rapier in lug duel with Haiuiet
[Shakespeare, Samlet].
Laila : daughter of Okba, the sorcerer. She died to save
Thalaba's life [Southey, Thalaba].
Lajennesse, Gabriel : the lover of Evangeline, who was
parted from her when the inhabitants of Grand Pre
were driven from their homes. They met again w heti
he was on his deathbed [Longfellow, Evanyilinr}.
Lalla Rookh : the Princess to whom the stories contained
in the poem were related on her jovirney from JJia.i
to Cashmere [Thomas Moore, LaUa Rookh}.
Lambert, Charlotte : daughter of Sir John and Lady
Lambert and beloved by Dander.
— — lady : wife of Sir John. She aids in exposing
Dr. CantwelTs hypocrisy.
— Sir John : the dupe of Dr. Cantwell, on whom he
bestows £4,000 a year [Bickcrstaff, The Hypocrite}.
• Hetty : daughter of Colonel Lambert. She eggs
Henry Warrington on till he becomes a soldier. After
wards she marries him [Thackeray, Virginian^.
Lambro : the father of Haidee— a Greek piiate [Byron,
Don Juan].
Lamderg : and Ullin both loved Gelchossa, so they fought
and Laraderg won, but afterwards died of his wounds,
and in three days Gelchossa died of a broken heart
[Ossian, Fingal].
Lamia : a serpent- woman who married a Corinthian
youth [Keats, Lamia}.
Lamlnt : the daughter of the noble Vertaigne, and wedded
to Champernel [J. Fletcher, Little French Larcycr}.
Lammermoor, Bride of : parted from the man she loves,
and wedded to another, she goes mad [Scott, Bride
of Lammermoor ; tee olio Ashton, Lucy].
Lammeter, Nancy : the girl that Godfrey Caas marries, and
who urges him to claim his child Effie [George Eliot,
Silas Mamer
Lammikin, or Lamkin : a monster who used blood as the
LAM 163 LAR
chief constituent in the mortar with which he built
his castle [Scottith Ballad].
Lammle, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred : adventurers and fortune-
hunters. Each marries the other for money, only to
find, too late, that neither has any [Dickens, Our
Mutual Friend].
Lamoracke, Sir : a Knight of the Bound Table, and son of
Sir Pelliuore [Mallory, History of Prince Arthur].
Lampedo : a country surgeon, very poor, the ' sketch and
outline of a man ' [Tobin, Honeymoon}.
Lance : a falconer and the servant of Valentine's father
[J. Fletcher, Wit Without Honey].
Lancelot of the Lake : a Scottish metrical romance [Percy,
tidiqiu-t : Sir Lavncclot du Lake].
Sir : chief Knight of the Round Table, who har
bours a guilty love for Guinevere which has a disastrous
iuHuence on the Court. He repents and dies ' a holy
man ' [Alfred Tennyson, Idyllt of the King : Lancelot
and Elaine ; (fuine^ere].
Langham, Edward : an Oxford tutor whose intellectual
gifts and many line qualities of head and heart are
ail rendered neutral by an invincible shyness and
morbid indecision of character [Mrs. Humphry Ward,
Robert Eltmere}.
Langley, Sir Frederick : a Jacobite conspirator and suitor
for the hand of Miss Vere [Scott, Black Dwarf}.
Languish, Kiss Lydia : an insatiable novel -reader, who
tries to act the characters she admires [Sheridan,
Kivalt}.
Lapet, Mons. : an abject coward who wrote a book upen
duelling [J. Fletcher, Nice Valour; or, Passionate
Madman].
Lapraick : the friend of Steenie In Wandering Willie's tale
[Scott, RedgauntUt].
Lara : the name taken by the Corsair after Medora'e death
[Byron, Lara].
the Count o! : in love with Preciosa [Longfellow,
Spanish Student].
Lardoon, Lady Bab : a fashionable gambler, who renounces
such weaknesses upon her marriage to Sir Charles
Dupely [Burgoyne, Maid of the Oak*}.
Larkins, Kiss : an imposing young woman for whom
David experiences a violent ' calf-love ' [Dickens,
David Copperftflil].
Larthmoor : King ef Berrathon, a Scandinavian island
[Ossian, Berrathon}.
Larynx, Rev. Mr. : a cheery, jovial clergyman [Peacock,
Nightmare AN>ey].
LAS 161 LAV
Las-Casai : a fine old Spaniard who denounced the bar
barities perpetrated by hia compatriots [Sheridan,
Pizarro}.
Lasoours, Martha de : cut adrift in a boat, in infancy, she
was found and reared by an Indian tribe.
Ralph de : father of Martha and Captain of the
Urania [Stirling, Orphan of the Frozen Sea].
L&tbmon : a British prince who attacks Jlorven. Fingal
defeat? him but releases him unharmed [Ossian,
Lathmon].
Latimer. Darsie : supposed to be the son of Mr. Ralph
Latimer, really that of Sir Henry Redgauntlet,
Mr. Ralph : the reputed father of Darsie [Scott,
Redtjaunllft}.
Laud, Will : a smuggler, beloved by Margaret Catchpole.
He helps her to escape from Ipswich Gaol [Cobbold,
Margaret Cat&pole].
Laonce : the servant of Protheus [Shakespeare, Two
Gentlemen of Verona].
Laoncelot, Sir : tee Lancelot, Sir.
Launfal, Sir : a Knight of the Round Table, and the subject
of the poem [Lowell, Vision of Sir Launfal].
Laura : beloved by both Arnold and Hugo. As both
were slain in a faction fight, she married neither
[Davenant, Qondibert].
—— a frivolous woman whose husband, being captured
by Turks, embraces their faith [Byron, Bappo].
Laurana : daughter of the King of Thessaly, beloved by
Parismus [Poord, Hittory of Parismut].
Laurence, Friar : the friendly friar who gives Juliet the
Bleeping draught [Shakespeare, Rom?o and Juliet].
Lauretta di Guardino : the wife of John Inglesant, who dies
of the plague [Shorthouse, John Inglesant}.
Laurie, Annie : the original of this song was the eldest of
the three daughters of Sir Robert Laurie of Maxweltoa
[Douglas, Annie Laurie].
Laoringtons, The : this uovel is meant as a satire on a
certain class of people [Mrs. Trollope, The Laurington*}.
Lavaine, Sir : a knight of Arthur's Court, brother to Elaine
[Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of Che Kinj : Lancelot and
Maine].
Lavender, Frank : an artist. A self-indulgent young man
who at first, having won her, neglects his wife, but
her nobility of character at last has its reward and
he becomes wholly hers [Black, Princets of Thule],
ensro : the author is himself the hero of this story,
much of it being strictly autobiographical [Borrow,
Lavenyro, the Scholir, the Gipsy and the Priett].
LAV 165 LEA
Lavington, Squire : the squire who denied that the owner
ship of property carried duties with it [Charles Kingsley
Teatt}.
Lavinia : 8ist«r of Lord Altamont and the wife of Horatio
[Rowe, Fair Penitent].
— — daughter of the Roman general, Titus Andronicus.
Her hands were cut off and her tongue cut out by
Goths [Shakespeare, Titus Andronimx}.
— — in love with Palemon [James Thomson, Reasons :
Autumn}.
Lazarillo : a poor needy, hungry courtier, greedy and
voluptuous [Beaumont and Fletcher, Woman- Muter].
a servant who tries to wait on two masters and
commits many blunders in the effort [Jephson, Two
Stringt to Four Bow}.
a punctilious Spaniard [Middleton, Slurt, Master
Constable].
Lazie, Sir Lawrence : a man who served ' the Schoolmaster,
his Wife, the Squire's Cook, and the Farmer'. A
popular old chap-book [The Infamous History of Sir
Lawrence Lazie].
Le Bean : a courtier in the train of the usurping Duke,
Frederick [Shakespeare, At Fou Like It].
Le Castre : the father of Mirabel, the ' wild-goose ' [J.
Fletcher, WUd-gooie Chase].
L 'Eclair, Philippe : a boasting army orderly who court*
Rosabelle, a serving-maid [Dimond, Foumiling o/ th»
Foreit}.
Le Pebre : a poor lieutenant [Sterne, Triftram fthana'y].
L 'Estrange, Harley : a ' ahy, dreamy, and delicate ' young
nobleman, who falls in love with Nora Aveoel, a girl
socially his inferior [Lyttou, My Novel].
Lea : an angel who was sent to earth on a message fell in
love with her as she saw her bathing. She rose as a
spirit to heaven [Thomas Moore, Love» of th«
Angels].
Leander : a young man of Abydos who swam the Helles
pont nightly to visit his love — Hero— is the theme of
many poems and romances.
a young Spanish student who falls In love with
Leonora, who was betrothed to Don Diego. Diego is
old, Leander young, so the latter wins [Bickerstafl,
Padlock].
Lear : a mythical King of Britain, who is driven mad by
the cruelty and neglect of two of his daughters [Shake
speare, King Lear].
Learoyd, John : ' a slow-moving, heavy-footed Yorkshire-
man' [Kipling, LifSi Handicap].
LEA 166 LEI
Leatherheod : supposed to be a portrait of Inigo Jones1
the architect [Ben Jonaon, Bartholomew Fair].
Leatherstocking, Natty : the nickname of Natty Bumpo,
a half-civilized man whom we meet in five stories by
the same author [Cooper, Deeri'&yer, Prairie, Lait of
the Mohicans, Pathfinder, Pioneer}.
Leb'anc, Rene : notary of Grand Pre, whose goods were
confiscated with those of the other settlers there
[Longfellow, Erangcline}.
Ledbrain, Mr. X. : vice-president'of Section C. at the Mudfog
meeting [Dickens, Mudfog Attociation].
Ledbrook, Miss : a member of Mr. Crummies' Company at
the Portsmouth Theatre [Dickens, Nicholas Jfickleby}.
Ledbury : the hero of a novel [Albert Smith, Adventures
ol Mr. Ledbury].
Lee. Annabel : the subject of the poem [Poe, Annabel Lee].
Alice : the heroine ; daughter of Sir Henry. She
marries Markham Everard.
Colonel Albert : son of Sir Henry and the friend of
Charles II.
— Sir Henry : an old royalist, and head ranger of
Woodstock Forest, who gives shelter to Charles II
[Scott, Woodstock}.
Simon : the subject of a lyric [Wordsworth, Simon
Lee, the Old Huntsman].
Leeford, Edward : tee Monks.
Lefevre, Lieutenant : an officer who died of starvation
[Sterne, Trittram Shandy].
Legend, Ben : a sailor, the younger son of Sir Sampson
Legend.
Sir Sampson : a testy old gentleman who tries to
substitute his younger for his elder son as his heir
[Congreve, Love for Love].
Legree : the brutal overseer of a slave plantation [Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Dnde Tom's Cabin].
Leitester, Countess ol : tee Robsart, Amy.
Leigh. Amy as : the hero of the story [Charles Kingsley,
Westward Ho I],
Aurora : the heroine of a long narrative poem.
Romncy : the cousin and lover of Aurora : a
wealthy philanthropist. Not until he becomes bliml
does she marry him [Elizabeth B. Browning, Aurora
Leiyh].
Leila : the heroine. A young Turkish child, who at the
siege of Ismail Is rescued by Don Juan [Byron, Don
Juan].
a beautiful slave who falls in love with the Giaour
[Byron, Giaour].
LEI 167 LEO
Leila : the heroine of the novel [Lytton, Leila ; or, Siege
of Granada].
Lenkenstein, Lena and Anna two high-born Austrian
women, full of pride and fierce patriotism [George
Meredith, Vittoria].
Lennox, Colonel Charles : the hero of the tale who marries
the heroine, Mary Douglas [Susan B. Ferrier, Marriage].
Lenore : the name of the heroines of two poems by the
same author [Foe, The Raven ; also Lenore].
Lenville : the tragedian of Mr. Crummies' Company at the
Portsmouth Theatre [Dickens, Nicholat Nicklnby].
Leoline and Sydanis : characters in an early seventeenth
century heroic romance [Kynaston, Lroline and
Sydanif].
Leoline : deputed to murder the orphan daughter of
Pericles [-Shakespeare, Parirlet, Prince of Tyre].
Leon : the hero. He exercises great forbearance, kind
ness, and wisdom In subduing a wilful wife, and he
gains the day [J. Fletcher, KvU a Wije and Have a
Wife].
Leonard : a true scholar who earns his living by keeping
a poor school [Crabbe, The Boroitgh].
Leonardo : Duke of Mantua, married to Mariana, after
surviving two terrible accidents, and the plots of
enemies to part them [Knowles, The Wilf,\.
Leonato : the Governor of Messina, and father of Hero
[Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing].
Leonidaa : a character hi the play [Dryden, Marriage A
la Mode].
the hero of a poem In twelve books, at one time
very popular [Glover, Leonidat].
Leonora : a portionless girl who captivates the fancy of
an old man who undertakes her education, intending
to marry her, but Leander, a young man, arranges to
elope with her. Diego, the old man, sanctions the
match [Bickerstaff, Padlock].
—— — sister of Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara. Tasso, the
poet, loved this princess from afar [Byron, Lament
of Tatto].
' wrongful Queen of Aragon, who loves Torrismond,
son of the rightful king. This leads to the restoration
of the lawful sovereign [Dryden, Spanith Frt/ar].
betrothed to Ferdinand, a young Spaniard [Jephson,
TifO Strings to yattr Bow].
the faithful wife of Don Alonzo, but as she had
been at one time affianced to Don Carlos, charges of
infidelity are brought against her. She takes her own
life [Young, The Kcvenge].
LEO 163 LEY
Leonora : the heroine of the novel which bears her namt
[Maria Edeeworth, Leonora].
Leonies : falsely accuses his wife of infidelity and lose*
her fur sixteen years in consequence [Shakespeare,
Winter's Tale}.
Leontins : a valiant aud cheery old soldier [J. Fletcher,
Humorous Limtmant}.
Leopold : a sea-captain in love with Hippolyta [J. Fletcher,
Custom o1 the Country].
the Austrian Archduke who captured Richard I
on his return from Palestine [Scott, Talisman].
Leporello : a character in the play which used to be taken
by the actor J. Listen [Thomas Shadwell, The Liber-
Lesley?fBonnie :=Miss Leslie Baillie, the daughter of a
gentleman of Ayrshire is the person thus immortalized
[Burns, Bonnie Lesley],
— — Bonnie : pet name of one of the female characters
[Black, Kilmeny}.
— — — Ludovic : an old archer in Louis XFs Scotch
Guard known as Le Balafr6 [Scott. Quentin Duncard],
Lejurques, Jerome : an impoverished solicitor who tries
to add to his income by secretly owning the White
Lion Inn.
—— Joseph : his son, whose likeness to the highway
man Dubosc causes him to be accused of robbing the
Lyons mail.
Julie : daughter of Joseph, in love with Didier
[Stirling, Courier of Lyons].
Leucippe : wife of Menippus, a woman of ill fame [J.
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant].
an Athenian soldier who loves Pygmalion's sister
Myrine [Gilbert, Pygmalion and GalnUa].
Lewis : the Landgrave of Thuringia, and husband of
Klbabeth [Charles Kingsley, Saint's Tragedy}.
Don : no scholar, but loving scholarship, he is de
voted to his learned nephew Carlos [Cibber, Love
Makes a Man].
Lewiston, Jacob : an impostor ; cousin of the real father
of Gertrude, who blackmails Mrs. St. Clair by threaten
ing disclosure [Susan E. Ferrier, Inheritance].
Lewsome, Mr. : the man from whom Jonas Chnzzlewit
obtains the drugs with which he poisons old Anthony
[Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit}.
Lewsoi : in love with Charlotte Beverley, whom he marries
in spite of her poverty [Edward Moore, Gamester}.
Leybnrn, Asnes : the practical one of the family ; sister to
Mrs. Robert Elsmer-
LEY 169 LIN
Leylurn, Catherine : the beautiful and saintly, but narrow-
minded woman who becomes Mrs. Robert Elsmere.
Mrs. : the mother of Mrs. Robert Elsmere.
. Rote : the wayward but gifted and beautiful
sister of Mrs. Robert Elsmere, who marries Hugh
Klaxman [Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere}.
Lieschen : Teufelsdrockh's general domestic factotum
[Carlyle, Sartor Retartui}.
Lightwood, Mortimer : a solicitor, the friend of Eugene
Wrayburn, and at one time the »dmirer of Bella
Wilfer [Dickens, Our Mutual Friend}.
Lilian : the heroine [Charles Kingsley, Alton Lorkt].
' Airy, fairy Lilian,' a portrait [Alfred Tennyson,
Lilian}.
Lilinau : a woman who followed a phantom that waved
to her from amongst the pines in her father's woods
[Longfellow, Evangdine}.
Lillia-Bianca : daughter of Nantolet, and courted by
Pinac [J. Fletcher, WHd-goose Chase}.
Lilly : she is the wife of Andrew, Charles Brisac's servant
[J. Fletcher, Elder Brother}.
Lillyvick, Mr. : a water-rate collector, who marries Miss
Petowker, the actress [Dickens, Nicholas Nicklcoy].
Limberham : supposed to be intended for the Duke of
Lauderdale [Dryden, Limberham].
Limmason, Lieut. : an officer of Hussars imprisoned in
Siberia, whence he escapes, a wreck [Kipling, Life's
Handicap].
Limp, Sir Luke : the leading character, which was acted
by the author himself [Foote, Lame Lover].
Lincoya : ' the flower of all his nation ', a captive of the
Aztecas [Southey, Madoc}.
Lindabrides : one of the heroines of the romance [Iftrrovr
of KniyJithood}.
Lindore, Lady Emily : daughter of the first Lord Ltadore
and cousin of Mary Douglas. She marries Edward
Douglas, Mary's brother.
Lord, the Elder : afterwards Lord Courtland.
Brother to Lady Juliana Douglas.
Lord, the Younger : cousin and lover of Adelaide
Douglas, with whom she ultimately elopes [Susan E.
Ferrier, Marriage].
Linst : daughter of Sir Persaunt. The same whom Tenny
son calles Lynette [Mallory, History of Prince Arthur}.
Linkin .vater, Tim : the faithful clerk of Cheeryble Bros.
[Dickens, Nicholas tfickleby].
Linne, The Heir ol : subject of an old ballad [Percy,
Rdiquet : The Heir ol Linne}.
LIN 170 LOG
Linnet, Kitty : an actress ; the heroine of the play f Foote,
Mnid of Rntk}.
Lionel and Clarissa : the hero and heroine of an opera
[Bickerstart, Lionel and Claritta}.
Lirriper, Mrs. Emma : the letter of lodgings at No. 81,
Norfolk Street, Strand [Dickens, Mn. Lirriper't
Lodvinqt\.
Jecnmy Jackman : son of Mr. Edson, adopted by
Mn. Lirriper [Dickens, Mrt. Lirriper't Legacy}.
Lisa, Monna : mother of Tessa [George Eliot, Romola].
Li;aiahago, Captain : the wounded warrior who marries
Tabitha Bramble [Smollett, Humphry Clinker}.
Lmardo : tee Flippanta and Lassardo.
LUtless, the Hon. Mr. : an aimless and stupid young man ;
a friend of Scythrop's [Peacock, Nightmare Abbey}.
Littimer : Steerforth's meretricious servant [Dickens
DtviA CopperfitU}.
Littls Billee : tee Billee, Little.
Britain : tee Britiin, Benjamin.
Dorrit : tee Dorrit, Amy.
John : set John, Little.
Nell : tee Trent, Nell.
Livia : a worldly, malicious woman, who betrays Bianca
[Middleton, Womtn Beware Women].
Livm?ston«, Guy : the hero of a novel, fiery, wanting in
self-restraint, but generous [Lawrence, Quy Living-
ttone}.
Llaian : the mother of Prince Hoel ; she went with Madoc
to America [Southey, Madoc}.
Llewellyn : grandson of Owen, King of North Wales ; he
was set aside in succession to the throne because of
a dUflgured face [Southey, Madoc}.
Bunny : the orphan grand -daughter of David
Llewellyn, who marries Watkln Thomas.
Dai-id : the wily old fisherman and marine, who
tells the story [Blackmore, Maid of Sker}.
Loadstone, Lady : a character in the play [Ben Jonson,
Mai/netick Lady}.
Loathly Lady, The : as soon as she is married to the knight
she changes into a beautiful woman [.\farriaffe of Sir
Oawain, old ballad].
Lobbs, Maria : very pretty, and beloved by Nathaniel
Pipkin.
Old : Maria's father, a wealthy saddler [Dickens,
Pickwick Paper t}.
Lochiel : one of the speakers in a lyrical dialogue [Camp
bell, Lochitft Warning}.
Lochinvar : the hero of a ballad, who carries oft a bride
LOG 171 LOR
under the very nose of the bridegroom, at the wedding
festival [^cott, Marmion}.
Locke. Alton : a poetic*! tailor, who turns Chartist [Charles
Kingsley, Alton Locke}.
Lockit : the gaoler who loaded his prisoners with chains
in inverse ratio to the fees which they paid.
Lucy : his daughter, who aided in Macheath's
escape [Gay, Beyyar't Opera].
Looksley : an outlawed archer generally known as Robin
Hood [Scott, Ivcnhoe}.
Locrine : a mythical King of England who was made th«
subject of a drama [ascribed to Peele and Tilney,
Lntrinr], 1595.
Lodowick : the name under which the Duke of Vienna
concealed his identity when he wished to remain un
known [Shakespeare, Measure lor Measure].
Lofty : a vulgar toady, who boasted of his acquaintances
amon? the aristocracy [Goldsmith, Oood-n'iturni Man].
Sir Thomas : a man of small abilities, who sets
up to be a man of parts [Foote, Tiie Patron].
Log, King : appointed by Jupiter to be king amongst the
Frogs when they petitioned him for a ruler lAetop't
Fables}.
Lolah : she was ' dark as India ', and was one of the three
beauties of the harem into which Don Juan penetrated
in disguise [Byron, Don Juan].
Long Tom : the hero of a popular story \_Merry Concetti
of Long Tom, the Carrier, etc., etc.].
Tom Coffin : see Coffin, Tom.
Longaville : a yonng lord, in the train of Ferdinand of
Navarre [Shakespeare, five's Labour't Ln*t}.
Lopei, Don : the father of Don Fells, and Donna Isabella
[Mrs. Centlivre, The Wonder].
Lord Beichsn : tee Beichan, Young.
Loredano, James : one of the Venetian Council of Ten. AD
enemy of the Foscari [Byron, Two Fotcnri}.
Lorel : a swineherd ; the lover of Earine [Ben Jonson,
Sad Shepherd].
Lorenzo : Jessica's lover, with whom she elopes [Shake
speare, Merchant of Venice].
an atheist and evil liver [Young, ffiyM Thoughti].
Lorma : wife of Erragon, King of Sora, who fell in love
with a Scottish soldier. The king challenged and killed
him, and Lorma died of grief [Ossian, Battle of Lora].
Lorna Doone : see Doone, Lorna,
Lorraine, Mrs. Felix : a capable but conceited woman,
supposed to be intended for Lady Caroline Lamb
[Beaconsfleld, Vivian Grey].
LOR 172 LOV
Lorraine, Alice : the heroine, who, declining Captain Stephen
Chapman, marries Colonel Aylrner, a hero of Waterloo.
Hilary : the brother of Alice. A highly romantic,
impetuous young man, who, trained as a lawyer,
becomes a soldier instead, and falling In love with a
Kentish farmer's daughter ultimately marries her.
Lady Valeria : a stern old lady, mother and ruler
of the household of Sir Eoland Lorraine.
' Sir Roland : a solitary dreamer, but the pink of
old fashioned courtesy [Richard D. Blackmore, Alict
Lorraine].
Lorrequer, Harry : a boisterous, rollicking Irishman, th«
hero [Lever, Harry Lorrequer].
Lorrimite : a horrid witch who helped to persecute Kailyal
[Southey, Cwte of Kehama}.
Lorry, Mr. Jarvis : confidential clerk at ffellson's bank and
a friend of the Manette family [Dickens. Tale o) Two
Cities].
Losberne, Mr. : ' The doctor ', a good-humoured Burgeon,
a friend of the Maylies [Dickens, Oliver Twitt}.
Let : King of Orkney and father of Gawain and Modred.
[Alfred Tennyson, IdyUt of the King : Coming of
Arthur}.
Lothair : the hero, a young noble of undecided views, who
coquettes with the church of Rome [Beaconsfield,
Lothair}.
Lothario : a libertine who Is supposed to have suggested
the character of Lovelace to Richardson [Rowe,
Fair Penitent}.
Lougher, Colonel Henry : chief landowner in Newton -
Nottage and friend to Bardie [Blackmore, Maid of Sker],
Louisa : is turned from home for declining to marry
Mendoza, and remaining faithful to Antonio [Sheridan,
Duenna],
daug'hter of bailiff Russet, for whose sake Henry
deserts the colours [Charles Dibden (from the French),
The Deserter].
Louise : the name of the glee-maiden [Scott, Fair Maid of
Perth].
de Lasconrs : wife of Ralph and mother of Martha
the ' orphan ' [Stirling, Orphan of the Frozen Sea],
Love, Sir Antony : the leading character in the comedy.
A lady who assumes male attire, fights duels, is hail-
fellow-well-met with men, etc., etc. [Southeme, Sir
Antony Love; or, the Rambling Lady}.
Lovegold : a miserly old man of sixty who wants to marry
his son's sweetheart [Fielding, The Miter}, based on
L'Avare, by Moliere.
1,0 V 173 LOV
Lovegood: Valentine's uncle [J. Fletcher, Wit Without
Money].
Lovejoy, Gregory : brother of Mabel Lovejoy and lover
of Phyllis Catherow.
Mabel : the girl with whom Hilary Lorraine falls
In love and ultimately marries.
Martin : a Kentish ' grower ' and father of Mabel
and Gregory Lovejoy [Richard D. Blackmore, Alice
Lorraine],
Lovel : a scholarly soldier [Ben Jonson, New Inn].
=John Lamb, father of the essayist [Lamb, Old
Benchers of the Inner Temple].
the page of Lord Beaufort, for whom he stands
aside, when he finds they both love Lady Frances
Murphy, The Citizen].
— — — the subject of a novel founded on a comedy by
the same author called The Wolvet and the Lamb
[Thackeray, Lovel the Widower}.
Lord : the hero of an old Scottish ballad, at one
time very popular.
Lord : appears as a ghost [Clara Keeve, Old EngliA
Baron].
Peregrine : a rich man who suspects his servants of
extravagant living [Townley, High Life Below Stairt].
Lovelace : an aristocratic suitor for the hand of Miss
Drugget, the daughter of a rich tradesman [Murphy,
Three Week* After Marriage].
— —— an evil liver whose showy qualities gave him all the
more power to harm [Richardson, Claritia Barlow].
Loveless, The Elder : claimant for the hand of the scornful
lady.
— — - The fotmjer : a repentant sinner [Beaumont and
Fletcher, Scornful Lady].
Edward : wedded to Amanda, he flirta with Berin-
thia. He learns the error of his ways [Sheridan, A
Trip to Scarborough]. The same character is dealt
with by Gibber, Love"i Last Shift, and Sir J. Vanbrugh,
The Rdapie.
Lovell, Benjamin : a banker, addicted to the gaming table.
Eltie : the daughter of Benjamin, and loving
Victor Orme [Reeve, Parted].
' Lord : destined by Sir Oiles Overreach for his
daughter Margaret, but marrying Lady All worth
Instead [Massin«er, New Way to Pay Old Debit}.
Lovely, Anne : the heroine [Mrs. Centiivre, A Bold Stroki
for a Wife].
Lovemore : a pleasure-loving man who finds home dull,
•o neglects hu wife and se«ks his pleasures abroad.
LOV 174 LUC
Lovemore, Mrt.: exerta herself manfully to make home more
attractive, and succeeds in winning her husband back
[Murphy, Way to Keep Uim}.
Loverule, Lady : a termagant who led her husband a
dreadful life until 3akel Jobson, a cobbler, taught her
better.
Sir John : a good sort of fellow who had no
authority at home [Coffey, Devil to Pay}.
Lovewell : secretly married to Fanny Sterling [Colman and
Garriek, Clandestine Marriage].
Lovinski, Baron : guardian of Princess Lodoiska. He
betrays his trust by making love to her [Kemble,
Lodoitka}.
Loys de Dreuz : a Breton noble who joins the Druses and
is created prefect [R. Browning, Jttturn of the Druses}.
LreuY : King Arthur's Seneschal, a. boastful coward
[Arthurian Cyde}.
Lnath : the ' swift-footed hound ' of Fingal [Ossian,
Lucan, Sir : King Arthur's butler, and a Knight of the
Round Table. Also called Sir Lucas [Mallory, History
of Prince Arthur].
Lucast»:«=Miss Lucy Sacheverell, the lady loved by Richard
Lovelace. She, hearing that Lovelace had died of
wounds at Dunkirk, married some one else.
Lncia : beloved by both of Cato's sons and marrying
Porcius [Addison, Colo].
daughter of Thrifty and sister of Octavian [Otway,
The Cheats of Scapin, from the French of Moliere].
dresses up as a man and follows her lover about in
order to win him. She gives the second title to the
play [Southerne, Sir Antony Love ; or, The Rambling
Lady}.
Luciana : sister-in-law of Antipholus of Syracuse [Shake-
speare, Comedy of Errors].
Lacifer : the spirit of evil, quite inhuman in its conception
[Bailey, festus].
one of the characters introduced [Longfellow,
Golden Legend}.
Lucifera : the impersonation of Pride [Spenser, Faery
Queenc}.
Lncile : the heroine of a novel in verse [Lytton, Lunle}.
Lucinda : in love with Jack Eustace and the friend of
RoactU [Bickerst&ff, Love in a Village}.
= Lucy Forteacue, wife of Lord George Lyttelton
[James Thomson, Seasons : Spring].
Lncio : an unstable sort of man. with some redeeming
characteristics [Shakespeare, Measure for Measure].
LUC 175 LUP
Lucippe : in the train of the Princess Calis, sister of Astorax
[Beaumont and Fletcher, Mad Lover].
Luorece : a character accepted as the. type of conjugal
fidelity in the middle ages is the subject of this poeiu
[Shakespeare, Rape of Lucrecc}.
Lncretia : the heroine of a novel much condemned by the
critics on ita publication [Lyttoii, Luirdia ; or, Chil
dren of tlit NigM\.
—— supposed to have been intended for Madame Zichy
[Beaconsfield, Coninytby].
Lucy : Polly's rival [Gay, Beggar's Optra}.
the subject of a ballad"[Laidlaw, latt verte, Hogg,
Luey'i Flitting].
the heroine [Mackenzie, Man of the World].
— — affianced bride of Amidas, and forsaken by him
because poor. Braciday, his brother, marries her
[Spenser, Faery yucene].
Lockit : tee Lockit, Lacy.
Ladovico : a deep-dyed villain, causrht in his own wiles,
and killed [9heil, Evadnc ; or, Thr Stntuf}.
Lndwal : son of Roderick the Great of North Wales, who
declined to pay tribute to England [Draytou, Poliiol-
W<mJ.
Luba : * the fleetest hound in all the North,' belonged to
Douglas [Scott, Lady of the Lak-}.
Lake : a hypocrite who begins life poor, and ends by b"ing
very wealthy. The hero [Massinger, City Ma
dam].
Lombercourt, Lady Rodolpha : dauzhter of Lord Lumber-
court, who failing Kgerton Mcrf'-cophant, marries his
brother Sandy [Macklin, Man of tie World].
—— Lord : an impecunious voluptuary, who, for the
sake of money, consents to give his daughter to Eger-
ton McSycophant, who declines her (.Macklin, Man of
the World).
Lumber, Dr. : the doctor who attended Mrs. Kenwiga
[Dickens, Nicholai Nicklehy].
Lumley, Captain : in Moutrose'a arm/ [Scott, Old Mor
tality}.
Lumpkin. Tony : an ignorant, conceited, and mischievous
country squire, the son of Mrs. Hardcastle [Goldsmith,
She Stoopi to Conquer}.
Lundie, Lizzie : a huntsman's daughter, noted for her
beauty, who married Lewiston, and whose daughter
was adopted by Mrs. St. Clair and passed off as her
own [Snsan E. Ferrier, Inheritance}.
Lupin, Mrs : the landlady of the Blue Dragon [Dickens,
Martin C'MuzleivU],
LUR 176 KA3
Lnrewell, Mistress : a revengeful jUt [Farquhar, Constant
Couple].
Loria : a Moor who serves the Florentines faithfully as
commander of their forces against Pisa, and is re
warded by ingratitude [E. Browninsr. Luria].
Lusignan : the last of the line of the Christian kings of
Jerusalem [Hill, Zara\, from the French of Voltaire.
Lycidas : Edward King, Milton's friend, who was drowned
crossing between England and Ireland [Milton, Lynda*}.
Lycidoa : tha hero [Mrs. Aphra Behn, Lycidut ; or, Lover
in Fat',ion].
Lydgate, Mr. : the doctor who marries Rosamond Viney
and has his life ruined by her [George Eliot, Middle-
march],
Lydia : ' a miracle of virtue as well as beauty ' , who ran
from home and went into service to escape an objec
tionable marriage [Knowles, Love'Chate].
Lyle, Annot : daughter of Sir Duncan Campbell and the
wife of the E;ul of Menteith [Scott, Legend of Montrosc}.
Mr. : intended as a porirait of Lord Surrey [Beacona-
field, Coningtby].
Lyndon, Barry : an Irishman and a sharper, who tells his
own story [Thackeray, Barry Lyndon].
Lyndsay, Edward : nephew of the Earl of RossevHIe and
Us ward. The hero of the tale, who in the end marries
Gertrude [Susan E. Ferrier, Inheritance],
Lynedale, Lord : a liberal and progressive peer [Charles
Kingsley, Alton Lodce].
Lynetta : sister of Lady Lyonors of Castle Perilous, who
marries Gareth [Alfred Tennyson, IdyUt of the King :
Gareth and LyncUe].
Lyon, Esther : the daughter of Rufus Lyon [George Eliot,
Felix Holt].
Rufus : a dissenting minister [George Eliot, Felix
Uott, the Radicd].
Lyonors : mother of Sir Borre, a knight of the Round
Table [Mallory, History of Prince Arthur].
Lady : of Castle Perilous, held captive there, and
delivered thence by Gareth [Alfred Tennyson, Idytti
of the King : Gareth mid Lynette].
Lysander : a young Athenian, who loves Hennia [Shake
speare, Midntmmer Nigla'i Dream].
Lysimachns : governor of Metaline and husband of Marina,
the daughter of Pericles [Shakespeare, Peridet, Prince
of Tyre}.
Mab : Queen of the Fairies, constantly celebrated in
English Literature.
MAB 177 MAC
Mab, Queen : one of the characters in a long, speculative
poem [Shelley, Quern Mab}.
MacAlpine, Jeanie : the landlady of the clachan, or inn, at
Aberfoyle [Scott, Sob Roy]
MacAnaleister, Eachin : one of Rob Roy's followers [Scott,
Bob Roy}.
McAndrews : a Scottish engineer ; he loved hia engines,
and was, though irreverent in speech, really religious
[Kipling, McAndrew's Hymn}.
Macaulay, Allan : ' of the Red Hand ', ' a seer ' who loved
An not Lyle.
Angus : brother of Allan, Chief of his clan and a
follower of Montrose [Scott, Legend of Montrose].
Mary : the humble but devoted friend of the
Gleuroy family [Susan E. Ferrier, Destiny}.
Macbeth : prompted by ambition and egged on by his
wife, he murders King Duncan.
Lady : her husband's evil genius, who, sympathiz
ing with his ambition, supplies the courage and will
which he lacks [Shakespeare, Macbeth}.
Macbriar, Ephraim : a religious enthusiast and preacher
[Scott, Old Mortality].
Macbride. Miss : an heiress and the heroine of a narrative
poem [Saxe, Miss Macbride}.
Maccabee, Father : the name and title taken by Roderick
after his fall [Southey, Roderick}.
Mac Choakumchild : an assistant in Mr. Gadgrind'a school :
choke-full of facts and the triumphant passer of many
examinations [Dickens, Hard Times}.
McDow, The Rev Duncan : a coarse-minded, self-adver
tising parish minister [Susan E. Ferricr, D-xliiii/j.
Macdufl : Thane of Fife, whose wife and children were
slain by Macbeth, who was in revenge slain by Macdufl
[Shakespeare, Macbeth].
MacEagh, Ranald : one of the ' Children of the Mist ' and
an outlaw [Scott, Legend of Montroie],
Macey, Mr. : one of the characters iu the novel [George
Eliot, Silt* Marner].
McFingall : a New Krifland squire of Royalist sympathies
in the American revolt [Trumball, MacFinjull].
MacFlecknoe := Thomas Shad well, the poet [Dryden, Mac-
Fecknoe}.
McFlimsey, Flora : the heroine of a satirical poem, by an
American author [W. A. Butler, Nothing to Wear].
Macgregor : see Hob Roy.
Hamish and Robert : sons of Rob Roy, the outlaw.
Helen : wile oi Rob Roy, the outlaw [Scott, Rob
Roy].
W.W.F. N
MAC 178 MAC
Macheath, Captain : the leader of a band of highwaymen,
who married Polly Peachum [Gay, Beggar's Opera].
Mac Ian, Eachin, or Hector : known as Conachar and
apprenticed to Glover, whose daughter he loves [Scott,
Fair Maid ol Perth}.
Mac Intyre, Captain Eector : nephew of the ' Antiquary ',
Mr. Jonathan Oldbuck.
Maria . Hector's sister [Scott, Antiquary].
Mac Ivor, Fergus and Flora : the Chief of Glennaqnoicb,
and his sister, the beroine of the tale. They befriend
Prince Charlie [Scott, Waverley].
Mackajre, Sandy : a canny old Scottish second-hand book-
selkr who befriends the hero [Charles Kingsley, Alton
Lockf}.
Mackenzie, Mr.: the father of Sheila, an old Scottish
laird, known as the King of Borva.
Sheila : the Princess of Thule, w^io marries Frank
Lavender, an artist [Black, Princess of Thule].
Rosa : the pretty, empty-headed girl whom Clive
Newcome marries as his first wife [Thackeray, The
Newcornes].
Macklin, Sir : a priest who preached «*ermons that ran into
Uieir ' twenty-firstly ' and ' tweiity-«econdly ' [Gilbert,
f.at, ballads].
Maclaughlan, Lady : an over-bearing but good-hearted
woman, whose opinions ruled the country-side; 'a
scion of a noble house '.
-^-^— Sir Sampson : a superannuated and invalid ' warrior '
with a ' distressing cough ' [Susan E. Ferrier, Mar
riage].
Macleod, Colin : one of Lord Abberville's servants, who
looks after the household finances. Honest and
economical [Cumberland, Fashionable Lover}.
Mac Murrongh : the bard of Fergus Mac Ivor, of Glen-
naquoich [Scott, Waverley}.
JIacoma : a beneficent spirit who shields the good from
the machinations of evil genii [Ridley, Tales o/ the
Genii : Enchanter's Tale}.
Macrabin, Peter : one of the interlocutors [Wilson, Nottft
Amhrofinnae].
Macready, Pate : a pedlar. The friend and confidant of
Andrew Fairservice, the canine gardener at Osbaiiii-
stone Hall [Hcott, Hob Roy}.
Macri, Theresa : the maid of Athens [Byron, Maid o1
Athens}.
Macrothumus : the personification of long-suffering
[Phineas Fletcher, Purple Island].
Mac Sarcasm, Sir Archie : a proud Scotch knight possessed
MAC 179 MAG
of a barbed tongue that spares no one's feelings
[Macklin, Love d la Modi].
Mac Sillergrip : a Scotch pawnbroker, who starts in pursuit
of his runaway apprentice.
Alrt. : his wife [Charles Matthews, At Berne in
Multiple].
Macstinger, Mrs. : Captain Cuttle's violent landlady, who
marries Captain Busby [Dickens, Domlcy and -Son].
Mac Sycophant, Charles Egerton : son of Bir Pertinax. lie
declines to marry Kodolpha, preferring bis mother's
protege Constantia.
- • Sir Pertinax : a Scottish baronet who destined
his elder son for Rodolpha Lumbercourt [Macklin, Man
ol Uie World}.
McTab, The Hon. Miss Lucretia : a proud and poor Scottish
maiden lady [Colman the Younger, Poor Gtntie-
man].
Mac Tavish, Harcish Bean : the son of Elspat, who when
he joins a Highland regiment drugs him, in order to
detain him. Arrested for desertion be is tried and
shot [Scott, Hiphlitnd Widow],
Mac Turk, Captain Hector : one of the managirg committee
at the Spa Uottl, who throws oil on ruffied waters
[Scott, St. Ronan't Will].
Madeline : the heroine [Lytton, Eugene Arcm].
- 'smiling, frowning, evermore ' [Alfred Tennyson,
Madeline}.
Mademoiselle : Lady Facciful's French maid [Vanbrugb,
Prorokrd Wife],
Madge Wildflre : see Murrfodison, Madge.
Madoc : youngest son of Onain Gwynedd, King of North
Wales, known as ' The Perfect Prince ' [Southey,
Madoc].
ap Iddon : was King of Gwent, in South Walca
[Stephens, Literature of the Kymri].
Mador, Sir : a Scottish knight, who brought charges of
malpractices against Queen Guinevere for which Sir
Launcelot challenged and vanquished him [Arthurian
Cycle].
Magalona, The Fair : a daughter of the King of Naples,
the heroine of an old romance, French in origin [Hit-
lory of the Fair Magalone and Peter, ion of the Count
of Provence].
Maggs, Molly : a young and impudent housemaid who is In
love with Robin [Poole, Scfiprijoat].
Maggy : half-witted, the result of a fever, she was the
grand-daughter ef Mrs. Eangham [Dickens, Liitlt
Dorrit].
M4Q 139 MAL
Magi, the, or Threa Kings o! Cologne : the ' wise men from
the East '— Melchior, ' King of Light ' ; Balthazar,
' Lord of Treasures ' ; and Gaspar or Caspar, ' The
White One'.
Magnauo : one of those who assaulted Hudibras at a
bew-biiting [Butler, Hudibrot].
Magnetic, The Lady : the subject of a comedy [Ben Jonson,
Lady Magnetic}.
Ma?aus, Peter : ' a red-haired man with an inquisitive
nose ', who inquires of Mr. Pickwick as to the best
way to propose to a lady [Dickens, Pickwick Papers}.
M«a3tone, Fair : tee Magalona. The Fair.
Ma?flitch, Abel : sometimes known by the name of Provis ;
a convict. He is the father of Miss Havisham's
adopted child Eatella [Dickens, Great Expectations}. •
Mahldeaau, Meeta : daughter of the minister and betrothed
to Rupert Boselheim [Knowles, Maul of Mariendorpt},
bwe.1 on a novel by Jane Porter, Village of 3farien~
.lornt}.
Mihjjd : the spendthrift son of a Delhi jeweller and con
demned to be burnt alive, but was changed into a toad
[Ridley. Talei of the Genii: Enchanter' t Tale}.
Mud Marian : tee Marian, Maid.
. • - of Athens : see Maori, Theresa.
of Mariendorpt : tee Mahldenau, Meeta.
ol Perth, Fair : tee Glover, Catherine.
of ths Mill : tee Fairfleld, Patty.
Maiden o! tha Mist : see Geierstein, Anne of.
Maimouns : the fairy daughter of Damriat, ' King of a
legion of geni ', who changed herself into a flea [Arabian
Nig'its}.
Mairauna : a sorceress [Southey, Thalriba}.
Malachi : the assistant of Turnbull [Scott, Redgauntlet}.
Malagrowther, Sir Mango : an ill-tempered old courtier,
soured by misfortune [Scott, Fortunes of Nigd}.
Malaprop, Mrs. : aunt of Lydia Languish. Notorious for
her misuse of words [Sheridan, Rivals}.
Malbecco : ' a cankered, crabbed carl ', wealthy and
stingy, and married to a young wife [Spenser, Faery
Queene}.
Malcolm : eldest son of Duncan, who, upon the murder of
his father, fled with his brother, Donalbain, to Ireland
[Shakespeare, Macbeth}.
Captain : the father of the hero of the story.
Edit* : a gentle, beautiful and intellectual girl, the
daughter of the Chief of Glenroy, and heroine of the
story.
- Munjo : Laird of Inch Orran, and cousin of
MAL 181 MAL
Glenroy, owner of an estate much coveted by the
latter.
Jfalcolm, Norman : the only son and heir of the Chief of
Glenroy, who died in boyhood.
. Reginald : nephew to the Chief of Glenroy and long
betrothed to his daughter, to whom he proved faith
less, finally wedding Florinda Waldegrave.
— — — Ronald : cousin of Glenroy, the hero of the story,
who after an adventurous life, ends by marrying Eiiilh,
the Chiefs daughter [Susan E. Ferrier, Dcttiny].
— — — Mrs. : a poor but very pious widow whose children
all prosper [Gait, Annals of the Parish].
Malecasta : the lady of Castle Joyous, and the personi
fication of lust [Spenser, Faery Queenc].
Maleffort : Lady Briana's Seneschal, whom Sir Calidore
slew [Spenser, Feery Queene].
Kaleger : the son of the Earth, who, whenever he touched
her derived new strength, so that when Arthur wished
to kill him he had to cast him into a lake [Spenser,
Faery Queene].
Malengrin : the personification of guile [Spenser, Faery
Queene].
Mal-Fet, The Chevalier : the name taken by Sir Launcelot
during the term of his madness [Mallory, History of
Prince Arthur].
Malfort, Mr. and Mrs. : a young man who ruins himself
and his wife by unwise speculations. Their distresses
are relieved by Frank Heartall and Mrs. Cheerly
[Cherry, Soldier's daughter].
Kalfy, Duchess oi : sister of the Duke of Calabria, she
fell in love with her steward, at which her brothers
were so outraged that they caused her to be strangled
[Webster, Duchess of Mal/y].
Mako : a mythical King of Britain [Drayton, Polyolbion}.
Malinal : when the Axtecas declared war against the white
men Malinal took the white men's side, and defended
the white women [Southey, Madoc}.
Malone, the Rev. Peter Augustus : curate of Briarfield ;
fonder of using his fists than his brains [Charlotte
Bronte, Shirley].
Mal-Orchol : King of Fuarfed [Ossian, Oina-Morul].
Malrravers, Ernest : the hero of the story [Lyttoii, Ernett
MaUravcrs].
Malvil : it was upon this character that Sheridan based bis
of Joseph Surface [Murphy, Know Your Ou-n Mind}.
Malvina : the daughter of Toscar and engaged to Oscar,
Ossian's son [Ossian, Timora],
Malvoisin, Sir Albert : preceptor to the Knights Templars.
MAI. 132 MAN
Malwisin, Kir Pniiip : one of the challengers at the tourna-
meut [Scott, Ivanhoe].
Malrolio : Olivia's steward, on whom Sir Toby, Sir Andrew
Aguecheek and Maria play a trick [Shakespeare,
Twelfth Night].
Maanllius : Prince of Sioilia [Shakespeare, Winter1!
Tale].
Mammon, Sir Epicure : a wealthy fool, who gives the alche
mist, Subtle, the money for his quackery [Ben Jonson,
Alchemist].
- the personification of earthly ambition [Spenser,
Fairy Queene].
Man in Black : said to be intended for the Rev. Henry
Goldsmith, the author's father [Goldsmith, Citizen of
tke World].
Mandane : wife of the Mandarin Zamtij and mother of
Hamet [Murphy, Orphan of China].
Manatte, Doctor Alexander : for eighteen years a prisoner
in the Bastille, and released just on the eve of the
revolution.
— — — Lucie : his daughter, who devotes herself to him
during his remaining years, and marries Charles
Daniay [ Dickens, Tale of Two Cities].
MaaSred : sells himself to the Devil, who assigns him seven
demons to do his bidding [Byron, Manfred].
Manly : a young man, the friend of Wittipol [Ben Jonson,
Devil if an Ass].
replete with noble traits and the cousin and good
genius of Sir Francis Wrougliead [Vanbrugh anj
Gibber, Provoked Husband].
- a morose sea-c;iptain, who disbelieves in every
body and everything, including himself [Wycherley,
Plain- Dealer].
Captain : betrothed to Arabella [Knight, Sanest
Thieve*}.
——— Colonel : a straightforward, honourable soldier
[Mrs. Centlivre, Beau's Dud\.
Manusring. Guy : the father of Julia, who marries the
hero, Harry Bertram.
. Julia : his daughter, rather hare-brained ' [Scott,
(tun Manncring].
Manifleld, The Miller ol : a good-natured countryman,
who offered shelter to Henry VIII when he lost his
way on a hunting expedition [A'i/i; and the Miller of
Mansfield].
Maatalini, Madame : a fashionable milliner and dress
maker near Cavendish Square.
Mr. Alfred : her husband, his share in the business
MAR 133 MAR
being confined to spending the money [Dickens,
Nicholas Xicklcb-t}.
Marcelia : the wife of Sforza, who doted on her, but listened
to evil tongues, flew into a jealous rage and slew her
[Massinger, Duke of Milan}.
Marcelia : a lady attendant on the Queen, the only other
female character in the play [Norton and Buckhurst,
Gorboduf].
a young and Impulsive girl with socialistic leanings
[Mrs. Humphry Ward, Marcdla].
Marcellin de Peyras : first elopes with the lady Ernestine
and then fails iu love with his cousin Margaret [Stirling,
Gold Mine ; or, Miller of Grenoble}.
Marcellus : intended for Edmund Malone [T. F. Dibdin,
BiWomania].
the officer to whom the ghost appeared when he
was on guard on the ramparts [Shakespeare, Haml>-t\.
March, Ursula : the girl who marries John Halifax [Mrs.
Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman].
Marchioness. The : the poor little drudge who nurses Dick
Swiveller, and afterwards marries him [Dickens, Old
Curiosity Shop].
Marcia : beloved by both Sempronlua and Juba [Addison,
Colo,.
Marck, William de la : the ' Wild-Boar of the Ardennes'
tScott, Quentin Durward}.
Mardonius : a captain [J. Fletcher, King and No King}.
Margoul : only chiH of Sir Giles Overreach, who reject*
Lord Level for simple Tom Allworth [ilassinger, Nne
Way to Pay Old Debts].
Margaret : wife of Vanduuke, the tipsy Burgomaster of
Bruges [J. Fletcher. Bcgyar's flush].
the heroine of an American novel, by some called
' the New England Classic ' [Judd, Maryar*}.
Ladye : ' the flower of Teviot ', daughter of Lord
Walter Scott of Branksome Hall [Scott, Lay of th,
La* Minstrel].
Margaretta : ran away from home to avoid an unpalatable
marriage, and earned her living by si-iging [Hoar ,
No Sony, A'o Supper].
Margaritta, Donna : a wealthy, wilful girl, who is tamed
by a wise and forbearing husband [J. Fletcher, Jtule
a Wife and H-ire a Wife].
Margery, Dame : the nurse of Eveline Berenger [Scott,
Brtrothed].
Margiana, Queen : married to Prince Assad [Arabian
NiylUs}.
Marguerite : the wife of St. Leon [Godwin, Marguerite].
MAR 184 MAR
Marhaus, Sir : a knight of tlie Round Table, who met
Sir Tristram in single combat and was defeated by
him [Mallory, History of Prince Arthur}.
Maria : engaged to Groveby. Supposed to be the ward
but really the daughter of Oldworth [Burgoyne, Maid
of the Oak*].
the wife of Frederick, brother of the King of Naples.
He is a wicked man, she a virtuous woman [J. Fletcher,
Wile 1or a Month].
daughter of Thbrowgood, who loved her father's
apprentice, George Barnwell, but he was convicted
of robbery and murder [Lillo, George BarnwtU}.
•^— beloved by Longaville, a noble in the train of
Feniiuand of Navarre [Shakespeare, Love's Labour's
Lost}.
— — — the witty waiting-woman to Olivia, who plays a
trick on Malvolio [Shakespeare, Twelfth Night}.
-^— the heroine, in love with Charles Surface [Sheridan,
School for Scandal}.
a mad girl who played Vesper hymns on a pipe
[Sterne, Sentimental Journey}.
ftfariamne : the subject of two tragedies — one by Alexandra
Hardy, 1601; and the other by Elijah Fenton, 1723.
Marian : "a foundling adopted by Kate Macone, an Irish
cook, who rears her tenderly [Mrs. S. C. Hall, Marian ;
or, Young Maid's fortunes}.
loveil Colin Clout, who scorned her for Cicely [Gay,
Pastorals, ii.].
— — — daughter of Robert, the wrecker, and promised to
a young sailor named Edward [Kuowles, The Daughter}.
—— Margaret, Countess of Cumberland [Spenaer, Colin
Clout's Come Home Again}.
• Maid=Matilda, daughter of Robert Lord Fitz-
water. Poisoned by a poached egg sent her by King
John, because she rejected his advances [Drayton,
Polyolbion}.
- Maid : the heroine of the book. The daughter of
a baron, she marries another baron, who has been
outlawed, and lives with him in Sherwood Forest
[Peacock, Maid Marian}.
Mariana : this was the girl whom Lovegold, the miser, de
sired to marry [Fielding, Miser}.
the daughter of a Swiss ; she nurses Leonardo
through a dreadful accident and falls in love with him.
After many trials they are married [Knowles, The
Wife}.
sister of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan [Slassinger,
Duke ol Milan}.
MAR 185 MAR
Mariana : the wife of Angelo [Shakespeare, Measure for
Measure}.
and Mariana in the South : two poems for which
Tennyson is said to have taken the idea from Mariana
In Measure jor Measure [Alfred Tennyson, Mariana,
and Mariana in ttie South}.
Marie, Countess : the mother of Ulrica, by her lover,
Ernest de Fridberg, the ' prisoner ' [Stirling, Prisoner
of State}.
Magdalene: the subject of an interlude [L'v.is
Wager, Li/e and Repentance o1 Marie Maguulrne}.
Marigold, Dr. : the hero of a Christmas story. Marigold
is a Cheap-Jack, whose little child dies in his arms
whilst he is entertaining a crowd [Dickens, Dr. Mari-
goltfa Prescription}.
Marina : she tried to drown herself for love of Celandine,
who disregarded her love, but was rescued by a shep
herd [Browne, Britannia's Pastorals}.
— — wife of Jacopo Foscari, son of the Doge of Venice
[Byron, Two Foscari}.
the daughter of Pericles [Shakespeare, Pericles,
Prince of Tyre}.
tlarinel : the son of Cymoent. He permitted no one to
pass the cave wherein he dwelt without fighting with
him ; but Britomart fi-lled him to the ground. Alariuel
was loved by Florirnel [Spenser, Faery Queene].
jflarino, Faliero : the forty-ninth Doge of Venice, who at
the age of seventy -six was beheaded on the ' Giant's
Staircase ' [Byron, Marino Faliero}.
Marion de Lorme : the couspiritors met in her, house, so
that she was enabled \r> keep Kichelieu informed of
all their plans [Lytton, Rirhdieu}.
Mark, Sir : King of Cornwall, who wedded Ysolde the
Fair, of Ireland, who loved Sir Tristram [Mallory,
History of Prince Arthur}.
Markleham, Mrs. : the mother of Mrs. Strong and known
as ' the old soldier ' [Dickens, David Copperfield],
Marks, Will : the hero of the tale which Mr. 1'ickwick
submits to Ma«t<>r Humphrey as his qualification tor
admission to the C\ub(Dickens,AfastfrlIumphrc>/sClock}.
Marley, The Ghost of Jacob : Marley had been Scrooge's
partner, and his ghost plays an important role in the
story [Dickens, Christmas Carol].
Marlow, Sir Charles : an old friend of Squire Hardcastle.
young : his son, who is overcome by shyness
whenever in the presence of women of any social
standing. Kate Hardcastle ' stoops to conquer ' him
[Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer].
MAR 186 MAS
Mansion : a valiant English knight, who fell on Flodden
Field [Scott, Marmion}.
Marner. Silas : a poor lonely weaver deserted by hia wife.
He finds a tiny strayed child and takes it to his heart
and rears it [George Eliot, Stint Marner].
Marplot : a good-natured, interfering young man, always
meddling with other people's affairs [ilrs. Ceutlivre,
The Butv-Body].
Sir Martin : the hero of a comedy founded on
Moliere's L'JEtowrdi [Duke of Newcastle, Sir Martin
Marplot}.
Marrall, Jack : a false, cringing employ^ of Sir Giles Over
reach [Massinger, New Way to Pay Old Debit}.
Mar-Text, Sir Oliver : a clergyman [Shakespeare, At you
Like It}.
Martha : sUter to the ' Scornful Lady.' [Beaumont and
Fletcher, Scornful Lady].
aliai Ulrica : mother of Bertha, who becomes
Hereward's wife [Scott, Count Robert of Parit}.
Martia : In love with Virolet ; she is one of the heroines of
the play [J. Fletcher, Double Marriage}.
Martin, Dame : Daraie Latimer's partner at the fisherman's
merrymaking [Scott, Redgauntiet}.
Robert : an honest young farmer, in love with
Harriet Smith [Jane Austin, Emma}.
Marton. Mr. : the old schoolmaster who gave shelter to
Little Nell and her grandfather [Dickens, Old C'wiotUy
Shop].
Marwood. Alice : tee Brown, Alice.
Mistress : a despiaer of all men, the result of
having been jilted by one [Congreve, Way of the World],
Mary : the Mayor of Ipswich's pretty housemaid, who
becomes Mrs. Sam Weller [Dickens, Pickwick
AM*
the niece of Valentine and Alice. She loves lions.
Thomas [J. Fletcher, Mont. Thomat].
Ambree : tee Ambree, Mary.
Aihburton : tee Ashburton, Mary.
Graham : tee Graham, Mary.
Morrison : see Morrison, Mary.
the Maid of the Inn : a bright and happy girl, the
pride of the village, who went mad on discovering her
lover to be a murderer [Southey, Mary, the Maid ol the
Inn}.
Trevellyn : tee Trevellyn, Mary.
Maskwell : a cunning hypocrite, who feigns love and
friendship for all sorts of people he deques [Oongreve,
Double Dealer}.
MAS 137 MAW
Masoa, Bartha : Rochester's lunatic wife, who set fire to
his house [Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre].
— — Lady : a woman who forges a co.lioil to a will In
favour of her owu son. She is a woman whose charac
ter is a strange mixture of good and evil, weakness and
strength [Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm}.
Massey, Bartle : a schoolmaster with a great contempt for
all women-kind [George Eliot, Adam Bede}.
Mat-o'-the-Miat : a highwayman whose friend says he
' may raise good contributions on the public If he doe3
not cut himself short by murder ' [Gay, Beggar' t
Opera}.
Matilda : daughter of Sophia and sister of Rollo and Otto
[J. Fletcher, Bloody Brother}.
daughter of Rokeby and in love with Redmond,
her father's page [Scott, Rokcba}.
Matthew, Master : a stupid, gullable, quarrelsome fellow
[Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour}.
Matthias : a miller in debt, who follows a wealthy Polish
Jew one night and kills him, pays his debts and
wins respect. On the eve of his daughter's wedding
he dies in a fit, haunted by the sound of sledge-bells
[Ware, Polish Jew}.
Mattie : B ulie Nicol Jarvie's servant, whom he makes his
wife [Scott, Rob Roy].
Miss : tee Jenkins, Miss Mattie.
Maud : ' Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null •
[Alfred Tennyson, Maud}.
Maude : wife of Peter Pratefast, who, failing other towels,
' wyped her dUhes with her dogges tayll ' [Hawes,
Paste- Tyme of Pleasure}.
Maugrabin, Hayraddln : a Bohemian gipsy, who assumes
the disguise of Rouge Sanglier.
Zamet : his brother, huug near Plessia les Tours
[Scott, Quentin Durwnrd}.
Mangraby : one of the greatest magicians who ever lived,
and son of the founder of Dom-Daniel [Arabian Kighl«].
Maul : a giant who assaulted Greatheart with a club, but
had his head cut off for hU pains [Bunyan, Piljrim't
Progress}.
Maule : see Holgrave, Mr.
Mauprat, Adrien de : ' the wildest gallant and bravest
knii?ht of France ' [Lytton, Richelieu].
Mauxalinda : she loved Moore of Moore Hall, who slp.w the
dragon of Wantley, but was by M"i forsaken [Carey,
Dragon of Wantley].
Mawworm : an ignorant and vulgar man who thinks ha
has a vocation to preach [Biekerstaff, Hypocrite],
MAX 188 MED
Maxime : a Roman officer who was converted to Cbris-
tianity [Chaucer, Canterbury Tales : Second ATun'« Tale}.
a Roman tyrant [Dryden, Tyrannic Love; or,
Royal Martyr].
Maxwell : deputy chamberlain at Whitehall [Scott, For
tune* of A'igel].
Mr. Pate : called ' Pate in Peril ', one of Red-
gauntlet's fellow conspirators [Scott, Reugauntlcl].
Right Hon. William : a royalidt officer in the
king's army [Scott, Old Mortality}.
Hay : the heroine of a poem ' full of passion, incident,
and melody ' [R.Browning,.RAyme of the Duchess May}.
-^— — the girl who marries a Lombard baron of sixty
[Chaucer, Canterbury Tales : Merchants Tale}.
Baby : the subject of a graceful little lyric [Bennett, •
Baby May}.
Queen : tee Alice.
Mayflower, Phoebe : Sir Henry Lee's servant at the lodge
at Woodstock [Scott, Jf* oodttock}.
Maylie, Harry : the son of Mrs. Maylie, who marries Rose.
Mrs. : a lady living at Chertsey, who befriends
Oliver.
— — Rose : Sirs. Maylle's adopted daughter, whose real
name is Rose Fleming, and who proves to be the aunt
of Oliver [Dk-kens, Oliver Twist}.
^— — Mr. : an affected, blase man who dresses to per
fection and is adored by foolish young ladies [Fanny
Burney, Cecilia}.
Meadows, Sir William : a kindly country gentleman, the
friend of Jack Eustace.
^— — Young : son of Sir William, who, to escape an
undesired marriage, leaves home and goes as gardener
to Mr. Woodstock, at whose house he falls in love
with the very girl he had tried to escape from [Bicker-
staff, Love in a Village}.
Meagles, Minnie : called ' Pet '. Ultimately marries
Henry Go wan.
Mr. : a well-to-do, kindly man who prides him
self on being practical.
Mrs. : his wife, as kind and cheery as himself
[Dickens, Little Uorru].
Medina : the personification of the Golden Mean [Spenser,
Faery Quecnr}.
Medley : some have supposed this to be a portrait of the
author himself [Etherege, Man of Mode}.
Matthew : ' handy man ' to Sir Walter Waring,
who marries the woodcutter's daughter, Dolly Fairlop
[Dudley, Woodman].
MED 189 MEL
Medora : the faithful and greatly beloved wife.of the Corsair
[Byron, Corsair],
Meet a : see Mahldenan, Meeta.
Mearcrah : a dishonest speculator [Ben Jonson, Devil it
an A»t],
Meg : the daughter of Toby Veck, married on New Year's
Day to Richard [Dickens, Chimes].
Megissogwon : a magician, who wrought all kinds of evil
to man, and whom Hiawatha was for ever opposing.
He had one vunerable point on his person, and that
was beneath a tuft of hah* on his head. Into this
Hiawatha sent an arrow [Longfellow, Hiawatha].
Meiklewbam, Mr. Blunders : the legal authority on the
board of management at the Spa Hotel [Scott, St.
Ronan't Well].
Malantha : a lady of fashion, Impertinent but attractive
[Dryden, Marriage a la Mode}.
Melantiua : brother to Evadne. Brave and honest, but
rough, and though trusting, relentless in punishing
proved misdeeds [Beaumont and Fletcher, Maid's
Tragedy].
Meldrum, Squire : the hero of a curious old Scottish poem
[Sir David Lin-hay, The History of a NobU and Wail-
zeand Squyre, William Meldrum}.
Melema, Tito : son of BaldassareiCalvo. Of Greek parentage
and very handsome, but unprincipled, false and
pleasure-loving. The husband of Romola [George
Eliot, Komola].
Meliadas := Henry, son of James I. It is an anagram of
Miles a De (o) ' God's So'dier '. Upon his death an
elegy on him appeared [Drumraond, Tean on the Death
of Meliade*}.
Meliadas del Espinoy and Meliadu? la Noir Oeil were both
Knights of the Round Table — the tliirty-seventh and
thirty-eighth in order [Robinson's Ancient Order}.
Melibea : a shepherd, father of Pastorella, who married
Sir Calidore. Melibee=Sir Francis Wulsingham, and
Calidore=tSir Philip Sidney, who married Walsing-
ham's daughter, Frances [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Melibeus : the husband of Prudence, a ' noble wyf ', noted
for her forgiving spirit [Chaucer, Canterbury Tale* :
Chaucer' i Tale of Melibeus}.
Belinda : in love with Worthy, whom she marries, after
teazing him unmercifully for a year [Farquhar, Re
cruiting Officer}.
Hell, Mr. : an assistant master at Mr. Creakle's school,
persecuted by Steerforth [Dickens, David Copper-
Held}.
MEL 190 MER
KeUctont : nephew of Lady Touchwood, and deeply
attached to Cynthia Pliant [Congreve, Double Dealer],
Mellida : tee Antonio and Mellida.
Melmoth : the central figure of the novel, who makes a
compact with the Devil that he may live 100 years
[Maturin, Milmoth the Wanderer].
Helnotte, Claude : the hero of the play, who, though only
a gardener's son, passes himself off as a prince and
marries Pauline [Lytton, Lady of Lyont}.
Melrose, Mary : the penniless cousin of Violet, who marries
Talbot Champneys.
Violet : the rich bride of Chatles Middlewick
[H. J. Byron, Our Boys}.
Melnsina : a fairy who, as a punishment for ill- treating
her father, was turned into a serpent every Saturday.
Her husband had promised never to visit her that day,
but he broke his word and she was compelled to leave
him [Jean f Arrat}.
Melvil. Sir John : betrothed to Miss Sterling, but preferring
her sister Fanny, who is discovered to be already
married [Colman and Garrick, Clandestine Marriage}.
Melville, Julia : the ward of Sir Anthony Absolute. She
fell in love with Faulkland [SLeridan, Rivals}.
Sir Robert : a member of the embassy sent to Mary,
Queen of Scots, from the privy council [Scott, The
Abbot].
Melyhalt, The Lady : Sir Galiot invaded her territory, but
nevertheless was chosen by her as her chevalier
[Arthurian Cycle].
Memnoa : a general in the army of Astorax, King of
Paphos. He is the hero [Beaumont and Fletcher,
Mad Lover}.
Menander : intended for Thomas Warton [T. F. Dibdin,
Bibliomania}.
Mcndoza, Isaac : a rich Portuguese Jew who is very wise
in bis own conceit, but always being duped [Sheridan,
Duenna},
Mengs, John : the innkeeper at Kirchhoff [Scott, Anne of
Gcicrttein].
Menippus : tee Phllonides and Menippus.
Menteith, Earl of : marries Annct Lyle, the heroine [Scott,
Legend of Montrose}.
Mepbistopheles : is one of the characters which materially
differs in conception from that drawn by Goethe.
There is ' an awful melancholy ', says HalJam, about
that of the English poet [Malowe, Favstus}.
Mercilla : a ' Maiden Queen of great power and majesty ',
who is menaced by a soldan. The Queeu is Elizabeth,
HER 191 MID
the soldan is Philip H of Spain [Spenser, Fairy
OMMM}.
Merc'-tio : ' a erpntlpman that loves to hear himself talk '
[Shakespeare, Romeo and JvliH].
Mercy : a young friend of Christiana, who goes with her
to Zion [Bunyan, Pilyrim't Proyrets].
tferdle, Mr. : a banker who is ruined and commits suicide.
Mrt. : his wife, and the mother of Mr. Edmund
Sparkler [Dickens, Little Dorrit}.
Meredith. Mr. : one of Kedgauntlet's co-conspirators
[Scott, K(d(iauntht].
Merida, The Marchioness : affianced bride of Count
Valantia [Mrs. Inchbald, Child of Nature}.
Meridies : or ' Noonday 8nn ', who helped to guard the
entrances to Castle Perilous [Alfred Tennyson, IdyHt
of the King : Oarcth and Lynttte}.
Merlin : the bard and wizard of King Arthur's Court, the
son of Matilda, and an evil ' sprite '. Frequent
allusions are found to him in o!d English literature
[Mallory, Hiitory t>1 Prince Arthur}.
Merope : the subject of a classical tragedy [Matthew
Arnold, Meropr ; also George Jeffreys, Merope}.
Merrilies. Mof? : a gipsy, thief, smuggler, and a kidnapper
of children [Scott, Guy Manuring}.
Merrygreek, Matthew : Ralph Roister Bolster's servant
[Udall, Rnlpk Roitter Doistir}.
Merrylegs : a performing dog at Slearys Circus that
belongs to Signor Jupe [Dickens, Bard Timet}.
Merton, Tommy: one of the loading charaiteis in this
once popular tale for boys [Day, Sandjc/rd and Sfrrtcn}.
Mertoun, Basil : known as Vaughan, at cne time a pirate.
- Mvrdaunt : the son of Basil. Married to lirem'.a
Tloil [Scott, Pirate].
- Henry, Earl of : the lover of Mildred Tresham. v.ho
is killed by her brother to conceal her shame K.
Browning, Vint on the Snilchran].
Mervyn, Mr. Arthur : the guardian of Julia Mannering
[Scott, Guy JHannrring].
Methos : Drunkenness personified. He is Gluttony's
twin-brother |Thir>eas Fletcher, Purjile Inland],
Meyrick : the name of a family which occupies a con
siderable place in the novel [George Eliot, Danitl
Micawber, Miss Emma : daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Micaw-
bor, who marries Mr. Eidger Begs, and goes to
Australia.
- Mr. Wilktnt : an improvident, impecunious man,
always ' waiting for something to turn up '.
M3C 192 MIL
Xieawber,Mrt. : his wife, whose spirits are almost as elastic
as his own.
\Yilkins : their son, a chorister hoy in Canterbury
Cathedral [Dickens, David Cnpperflfld].
Miohal: is intended for Queen Catherine, the wife of
Charles II [Dryden and Tate, Absalom and Achitophel.
pt ii.].
Michael : loved Maria Mosby, and is persuaded by her
brother to let some ruffians enter Arden'o house to murder
him [Lillo, Arden of Feversham}.
Michelot : a grasping, low-minded coward, who does all
he can to penetrate the mystery of ' the Gold-mine '
[Stirling, Gold-Mine : or. Miller of Grenoble].
Hicklewham, Mr. : schoolmaster and sessions clerk at
Oarnock, to whom Dr. Pringle addresses his letters
[Oalt, Ai/reshire Legatees].
Midas, Justice : it was his duty to decide between the
rival merits of Pol and Pan. He gave the preference
to Pan, whereupon Pol cast aside his disguise and
revealed himself as Apollo and caused >fidas henceforth
to wear the ears of an ass [O'H.ira, Midat}. Lily also
wrote a play by this name.
Middleman. Mr. Matthew : the assumed name of General
Witherington.
— — — Rirhard : his son ; though as a foundling he has
been apprenticed to Dr. Gray. He goes to India and
is crushed to death by an elephant [Scott, Surgeon' t
Daughter].
Middleton. Clara : a charming girl who is engaged to Sir
Willmighby Pattern, but discovers his true character
in time and breaks off her engagement. In love with
Vernon Whitford.
—— Dr. : the sententious and learned father of Clara
Middleton [George Meredith, The Egoist].
—— Sir John : the squire of the neighbourhood where
Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters settle [Jane Austen,
Sense and Sensibility],
Middlewick, Charles : son of Mr. Perkyn Middlewick, who
marrws Violet Melrose, an heiress, against his father's
wishes.
— — — Mr. Perkyn : a retired bntterman, a neighbour ol
Sir Geoffrey Champneys. Vulgar but good [H. J.
Byron, OUT So>/s].
Midge : a miller's son and one of Robin Hood's companions
[Robin Hood and AUan-a- Dale].
Mig?s, Miss : the disagreeable and mischief-making servant
of the Vardens [Dickens, Bamab>i Rwlgr}.
Mildmay, Frank : the hero, whose adventures are said to
MIL 193 MIR
be those of the author himself, though it is not supposed
to be a portrait [.Marryat, Frank Jlildmay].
Kildrsd, Little: the junior subaltern with an income of
£4,000 a year [Kipling, Man Who Was].
Miliord, Jack : the companion of Harry Dornton on ' th«
road to ruin ' [Holcroft, Road to Ruin}.
Miliamant : in love with Mirabell, an accomplished, fine
lady, who rejoices in her power of giving pain [Congreve.
Way oi the World}.
Millbank : supposed to be intended for Thomas Hope,
who wrote a romance called Anastasius [Beaconsfleld,
Vivian Grey}.
Miller, Daisy : the subject of a novel [James, Daity Mitter].
— — — James : brought up in the stable and on the turf,
he became ' tiger ' to Mr. Flammer and engaged to
Misa Bloomfield's maid, Mary Chintz [Selby Un
finished GtKtl,tnan\
Million. Mrs. : a lady possessed of fabulous wealth [Beacons-
rit-:d. Vivi-.in '
MiUs. Miss : a lady of blighted affections ; the friend of
D.mi [Dickens, David Copperfield}.
Mill.vood, Sarah : a woman of evil life, who spurs George
BirnAell on to the commital of all sorts of crimes.
and then bears evidence against him [Lillo, George
BanueeO],
Milner. Miss : in love with Mr. Dorriforth, a young Roman
priest [Mrs. Inchbald, Simr.l- Story]
Milvey, Mrs. Margaretta : a pretty, bright, plucky little
woman.
The Ri-v. Frank : a young curate with small moans
and a large family [Dickens, Our Mutwil f'ri-n'1}.
Mincing : Millamant's maid [Congreve, Wai/ of trie Wnrld].
Minikin, Lady: hates her husband and coquettes v\iih
Colonel Tivy because it Is the ' correct thing '.
Lord : a married man who flirts with other women
because that too is ' the thing ' [Garrick, Bon
Ton].
Minnehaha=laughing water, the wife of Hiawatha [Long
fellow, Hiawatha}.
Minns. Mr. : the subject of the first of uie * sketches '
[Dickens, Sketches b» Boz\.
Miaotti : governor of Corinth, who, when that city waa
stormed by the Turks in 1715, himself fired a train of
gunpowder, blowing up the Turkish camp. MinotU
himself was killed [Byron, Siege of Corinth].
Mirabel : the subject of the play ; a woman-hater, be is
pursued by Oriana and captured by her [J. Fletcher,
Wild-Goose Chase].
W.W.F. O
MIR 194 MOD
Mirabel, OH : tries to trap his son, to whom he fa devoted,
into marriage, but in vain.
Young : an inconstant young man who, though h«
loves, wishes to retain his freedom [Farquhar, Incon-
ttant}.
Mirabel!. Edward : in love with Millamant, whose very
faults attracted him [Congreve, Way of the World).
Mirabella : ' a maiden fair clad in mourning weeds ', but
very 'scornful and proud' withal [Spenser, Faery
Queene].
Miraraont : an ignorant old man himself, he nevertheless
admired learning. He was uncle to Charles and
Eustace [J. Fletcher, Elder Brother}.
Miranda : the rich ward of Sir Francis Gripe [Mrs. Centllvre,
Suty Body}.
the daughter of Frospero, with Caliban for her only
comrade save her father and Ariel [Shakespeare,
Tempctl}.
— ^— Leonce : the son of a rich jeweller, he fell In lore
with Clara Mulhausen, an adventuress, and lived
with her at Clairvaux, where he eventually committed
suicide [R. Browning, Red-Cotton NigM-cap Country}.
Mirza : a holy man who, living at Bagdad, has a vision
of the Bridge of Life [Addison, Spectator : The Vision
of Mirza, No. 159].
Misbegot, Malcolm : the son of Sybil Knockwinnock and
an ancestor of Sir Arthur Wardour [Scott, Antiquary}.
Mishe-Mokwa : the mighty bear which Mudjekeewis slays
[Longfellow, Hiawatha],
Mishe-Nahma : an enormous sturgeon from which
Hiawatha showed the Indians how to make oil. It
swallowed Hiawatha but he smote its heart with
his fist, and thus killing it, Hiawatha escaped [Long
fellow, Hiawatha}.
Misnar : an Indian sultan transformed into a toad [Ridley,
Tales of the Genii}.
Mite, Sir Matthew : a dissolute, pig-headed, East Indian
merchant [Foote, The Nabob}.
Mivers, Chillingly : a cynical journalist [Lytton, Eendm
Chillingly].
Mivins. Mr. : known as ' the Zephyr ' and detained ta the
Fleet Prison at the same time as Mr. Pickwick [Dickens,
Pickwick Papert}.
Mizen, Mat : a harum-scarum, dare-devil English sailor
[Barrymore, El Hyd*r, Chief of the Ghaut Mountaini}.
Moath : the father of Thalaba's bride, Oneiza [Southey,
Thalnba].
Meddle Mr. Augustus : one of Mrs. lodger's boarders
MOD 195
who {alia ta love with Mercy Pecksniff, and U entrapped
into an engagement with her staler Charity. He
escapee to Van Dieman's Land [Uickeus, Martin
Chuxlewit].
Kodelove, Sir Philip : one of Anne Lovely's guardians, and
a regular old lop [Centlivre, Void Stroke /or a Wile.}.
Modely : an unprincipled, worldly-minded man, constantly
being smitten, but never really loving until he meets
AuraFreehold.a farmer's daughter[Kemble,/'arOT.H<n«<>i.
Modish, Lady Betty : flirt* with Lord Foppington to annoy
Lord Morelove, her genuine love, for whom she will not
admit any regard until brought to reason by his
flirtations with Lady Graveairs [Gibber, C'areln*
ffiuband].
Modo : a murder-inciting fiend, and one of the five who
possess ' poor Tom ' [Shakespeare, Kitig Lear].
Modred : the knight whom King Arthur slew with the last
blow he ever gave with Excalibur [Alfred Tennyson,
Idyll* of the King : Patting of Arthur}.
Modus : the frowsy, musty bookworm whom Helen loved
[Knowles, Hunchback}.
loechui :
Moechus : the personification of Adultery [Phineas Fletcher,
Purple Iiland}.
Moeliades : tee Meliadea.
Mog, Molly : the subject of a ballad in praise of an inn
keeper'* daughter at Oakingham, Berkshire [Gay,
MoUy Mog ; or, Fair Maid of the Inn}.
Mogg, Peter : a barrister who seeks election to Parliament
[Sterling, Election}.
Mohareb : an evil spirit that dwelt in a cave under the
ocean called Dom-Daniel [Southey, Thulaba}.
Mohan, Lord : a fashionable rake, gambler and man-
about-town [Thackeray, Etmond}.
Moidart, John of : an officer in Muutrose's army [Scott,
Legend of Montrote}.
Mokanna : a prophet-chief, who, to hide a face disfigured
in battle, always wore a veil [T. Moore, LaUa liookli :
The Veiled Prophet of Khoratsan}.
Molly : at one time Abel Magwitch's mistress and the
mother of Estella, afterwards housekeeper to Mr.
Jaggers [Dickens, Great £zpettations].
Molozane, Beryl : beloved by George Geith. A saintly
and much loved woman who, after enduring many
sorrows, died young [F. G. Traftord (Mrs. Rlddell),
George Geith].
Monaldeschi, Marquis : grand Equerry to Queen Christina,
who caused him to be executed for insulting her with
his love [R. Browning, Chritlina and M vnaldexchi}.
MON
196
MON
Moncada, Matthias de : a stern man who, ignoring all
natural affections, causes his daughter to be arrested
the day after she has given birth to a son.
ZUia de: his daughter. The wife of General
Witherington [Scott, Surgeon'* Daughter}.
Moneytrap : wedded to Araminta, but allowing his affec
tions to stray to his friend Gripe's wife, Clarissa [Van-
brugh, Confederacy].
Monflathers, Miss : the keeper of a girl's day and boarding
school [Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop].
Moniord : the man who arranges to elope with Charlotte
Whimsey [Cobb, Firit floor].
Monimia : secretly married to the son of her guardian
[Otway, The Orphan].
Monk, The : the hero of a romantic tale written and pub
lished when the author was only nineteen [Lewis,
The Monk].
Monkbarns, Laird of : see Oldbuck, Jonathan.
Monks : Edward Leeford, half-brother to Oliver Twist.
A ne'er-do-weel who does his best to injure Oliver
[Dickens, Oliver Twist].
Monmouth, Lord : a ' refined voluptuary ', the grand
father of Coningsby [Beaconsfield, Coningi-
by].
Monnema : wife of Quiara, living in Paraguay at the time
of an epidemic of smallpox ; they See to the Mondal
Woods, where Quiara is devoured by a jaguar [Southey,
Tale of Paraguay}.
Montague : head of the house that was hereditary enemy
to the Capulets, and the father of Romeo [Shakespeare,
Romeo and Juliet}.
Montalban, Count : suitor to Volante, Belthazer's daughter";
he disguised himself as a priest so as to obtain access
to her, but she detected the fraud at once [Tobin,
Honeymoon}.
Montanto : a boastful master of fence [Ben Jonson, Every
Man in Hit Humour].
Montespan, Madame de : wife of the Marquis, and mistress
of Louis XIV.
The Marquit de : a heartless, empty-headed fop
[Lytton, Duchet* de la Valliere].
Montorio : a villain who persuades his supposed nephews
to murder their own father, and after the crime is
accomplished discovers that the assassins are his own
sons [Maturin, Fatal Revenge].
Montrerille. Mme. Adela : the Begum Mootee Mahul,
known as ' the Queen of Sheba ' [Scott, Surgeon'*
Daughter}.
MON 197 MOR
Montrose : the subject of a ballad [Aytoun, Execution of
Montrote}.
Moody : a brawling boasting man of the old school [Dryden,
Sir Martin Mar-all}.
Alithea : John's sister. She jilts Sparkiah and
marries Harcourt.
John : brings up his ward, Peggy Thrift, In Isola
tion, then at the age of fifty wishes to marry her.
She rejects him in favour of Belville, a younger man
[Garrick, Country Girl].
Moore, Hortense : sister of Robert and Louis Moore.
Louis Gerard : brother of Robert, and tutor to
Henry Sympson, Shirley's cripple cousin. Louia
Moore marries Shirley.
Robert Gtrard : owner of Hollow's Mill, which is
wrecked by the mill-hands upon his substituting
modern frames for hand-looms. He marries Caroline
Helstone [Charlotte Bronte, Shirley].
of Moore Hall : a legendary hero whom the author
has pressed Into his service. In the burlesque he
loves Margery Gubbins, of Rothram Green [Carey,
Dragon of WanUey}.
Moorna : daughter of Monnema and Quiara, and born In
the Mondai Woods [Southey, Tale of Para
guay].
Hopes, Mr. Tom : very dirty, and very nasty, and dressed
in a blanket and skewer, he lived by himself en Tom
Tiddler's Ground, a veritable ' hermit ' [Dickens,
Christmas Number : Tom Tiddler's Ground]-
Mopsa : Hobbinol's deserted lady-love [Somerville, Hob-
binol].
Mora : affianced bride of Oscar, who vanishes mysteriously
on the eve of his marriage. Allan, his brother , wins
the bride, and then is found to have murdered Oscar
[Byron, Oscar of Alva].
Morakanabad : Grand Vizier of the Caliph Vathek [Beck-
ford, Vathek].
Mordecai, Beau : a rich Jewish suitor for the hand of the
heiress, Charlotte Goodchild, who withdraws when he
learns that her fortune is lost [Macklin, Love a-la-
Mode].
—— a Jew who believed himself the bearer of an in
spired mission to his race. The character is drawn
from a man of the name of Cohn, who belonged to a
club that used to meet in Red Lion Square, Holbora,
some forty or fifty years ago, having for its object the
redemption of Palestine for Israel [George Eliot, Daniel
Deronda].
MOR 198 MOR
Mordent : the father of Joanna, who deserts her and leave*
her to strangers, that he may many Ladr Anne.
Joanna : motherless, and left to the care of
strangers, after surviving many dangers, is married t*
a young hero called Cheveril.
— Lady Anno : a long-suffering, much neglected wif«
[Holcroft, Deserted Dauyhtfr].
Mordred : the treacherous knight slain by Arthur, and who
gave Arthur his death wound [Mallory, History of
Prince Arthur] ; see also Afodred.
Mordure : son of the Emperor of Germany, who loved
the mother of Sir Bevis of Southampton. Having
slain her first husband she married Mordure [Drayton,
Polyolbion].
the name of the magic sword which Merlin gave
to Arthur [Spenser, Faery Queene],
Morecraft : first a miser, afterwards a Spendthrift [Beau
mont and Fletcher, Scorn/til Lady].
MoreJove, Lord : in love with Lady Betty Modish, who
torments him by constant flirtation with Lord Fopping-
ton, for whom she has no real feeling, whilst she cares
for Morelove all the time [Gibber, Carries Husband}.
Horfln, Mr. : an elderly bachelor. Head clerk to Dombey
& Son. He marries Harriet Corker [Dickens,
Dombey and Son],
Morgadonr. Sir : one of the Knights of the Round Tabla
[Arthurian Cyde].
Morgan : Major Penriennis's valet, who entertain* hin» with
society gossip [Thackeray, Pendennis].
la Fee-: one of King Arthur's three fairy sisters
[Mallory, History of Prince Arthur].
Morgan. Mrs. : the rector's loyal and sympathetic, but
larger-natured wife.
The Rev. William : Rector of Carlingford, old-
fashioned, narrow and prejudiced, but striving to be
honest [Mrs. Oliphant, Chronitles of CmrUngford :
Perpetual Curate].
Morgane : a fairy, to whose care Passelyon and Beanucq
were entrusted [Pfrceforett].
Morgans? : the mother of Gowain, Agravain, Gaheris,
Gareth and Mordred [Mallory ,History of Prince Arthur].
Morgiana : the slave of Ali Baba, whom he gave to his
son in marriage [Arabian Nights].
Monrlay : the sword of Sir Bevis of Southampton ; a gift
from his wife Josian [Drayton, Polyolbion].
Moria : ' the guardian of the nymphs '. . . . ' A lady im-ie
all of voire and air, talks anything of anything ' [Ben
Jonson, Cynthia's Revels].
MOR 199 MOR
Morice, Qfl : the son of Lady Barnard, slain by Lord Bar
nard In a fit of jealousy [Percy, Reliquet : GO, Marine].
Morland, Catherine : an attractive girl, the heroine of the
book. ' Artless, guileless, with affections strong but
simple ' [Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey}.
——— Henry : the heir of Baron Duberly, supposed to
have been lost at sea [Colman the Younger, Heir at
Lota}.
Kama : daughter of Cormac, King of Ireland. She loved
Cathba, but Duchdmar loved her and slew Cathba,
and then asked Morna to be his bride, but she thrust
his own sword through his heart [Osaian, Fingal}.
Hornay : the seneschal at Earl Herbert's seat at Feronne
[Scott, Quentin Duncard}.
Morose : a close-fisted old man, upon whose wealth his
nephew, Sir Dauphine, has designs. He tricks the
old man into a marriage with a ' silent woman ', who
turns out to be a boy in disguise [Ben Jonson, Epicoene].
Morrell : a shepherd who has a partiality for high ground,
and tries to induce ThomaUn to follow him [Spenser,
Shepherd"* Calendar].
Morris, Dinah : a factory girl and a methodist preacher,
who devotes herself to Hetty Sorrel when she is con
demned to death for the murder of her child [George
Eliot, Adam Bede}.
Mr. : a timid man who travelled with Frank
Osbaldistone [Scott, Rob Roy}.
Morrison, Jeanie : the subject of a ballad [Mother well,
Jcanie Aforrison}.
Mary:
A thought ungentle canua be.
Tke thought of Mary Morrison.
[Burns, Mary Morrison}.
Mortality. Old : tee Old Mortality.
Mortcloke, Mr. : the undertaker at Mrs. Bertram's funeral
[Scott, (Juy Mannering}.
Mortem&r, Alberick o! : the hermit of Engaddl, who
assumes the name of Theodorick [Scott, Talisman}.
Mortimer : a character in a play of which only a very
small portion is now extant [Scott, Fall of Mortimer}.
Mr. : ' he did a thousand noble acts without the
credit of a single one ' [Cumberland, f'tuhionaUt
Lover].
Sir Edward : he committed a murder on a drunken
man who had heaped insults upon him. He was tried
and acquitted, but eventually confessed his crinw
[Colman the Younger, Iron Chest].
MOR 200
Morton : a retainer of the Earl of Northumberland [Shake
speare, King Henry IV, pt. H.J.
— Earl ol : in the service of Mary, Queea of Scot*
[Scott, Monastery; also Abbot].
Colonel Silas : the father of Henry.
llcnry : an officer in the army of the Covenanters.
Ralph : the uncle of Henry [Scott, Old Mortality],
Jflosby : the wretch who seduced the wife of Arden of
Feversham, and then three times attempted Arden'a
life [Lillo. Arden of Feversham].
Most a : a confederate of Volpone, a regular parasite, who
eventually betrays his master [Ben Jonson, Volpone ;
or, The fox].
Moth : an antiquary fond of quoting Chaucer In scraps
[Cartwright, Ordinary],
page to Don Adriano de Anna.dc [Shakespeare,
Love's Labour's Lost}.
one of the fairies [Shakespeare, Midsummer Kighft
Dream].
Mother Bunch : see Bunch, Mother.
Hotte, La : a character that is exceptionally well drawn
[Mrs. Radcliffe, Romance of the Forest].
Mould, Mr. : an undertaker to whom the ' tap, tap ' of a
coffin, in the making, was quite exhilarating [Dickens,
Martin Cliuzzlcu-it].
Mouldy, Ralph : j> ricked for a recruit, Falstaff lets him off
in spite of the remonstrances of Justice Shallow [Shake
speare, llcnry IV, pt. ii.].
Mowbray, Clara : sister to John and betrothed to Frank
Tyrrel. She, however, marries Valentine Bulmer in
the end.
Mr. John : the Lord of the Manor of St. Ronan's
[Scott, SI. Ronan's Well].
Frederick : eldest son of Sir Miles, who marrie*
Clara Middleton.
— — — Sir Miles : a meddlesome opinionated old man
who meant well but made mischief [Cumberland, First
Love].
Harriet : a friendless orphan who is secretly
married to Charles Eustace [Poole, The Scapegoat].
Helen : in love with Walsingham, but her reputa
tion suffering through the evil offices of Lord Athunree,
Walsingham casts her off. In the end all goes well
[Knowles, Woman's Wit].
Mowcher, Miss : a fashionable ladies' hairdresser, dealer in
cosmetics, etc., and a dwarf [Dickens, David Copper-
field].
MOW 201 MUM
Mowis : the snow-bridegroom who won a lovely bride,
but when the dawn broke melted away [Longfellow,
an American-Indian legend told in £vangdine].
Kncklebackit, Saunders : an old fisherman [Scott, Anti
quary].
Mucklewrath. Habakkuk : a fanatical preacher [Scott, Old
Mortality}.
Muckworm, Sir Penurious : uncle and guardian of Arbellt,
whom he destines for Squire Sapskull. Arbclla
succeeds in marrying Gaylove, the man she loves
[Carey, Honest Yorkiliirrman}.
addle : a
Muddle : a carpenter in the employ of Captain Savage
[Marryat, Peter Simple].
Mudjekeewis: the father of Hiawatha [Longfellow,
Biawalha],
Muff, Professor : remarkable for the urbanity of his manners
and the manner in which he can adapt himself to cir
cumstances [Dickens, Mud/og Astociation].
Sir Henry : an unsuccessful candidate for Parlia
ment [Dudley, Rival Candidates].
Muggins, Dr : a physician who suited ' his physic to his
patient's taste ' [Khodes, Bombagtet Furioso}.
Muhldenau : the minister of Mariendorpt, who, whilst
searching for a lost child, was seized and imprisoned in
Prague.
— — — Meeta : his daughter, who hearing of his mis
fortune, walks to Prague and petitions for his release,
and thus discovers her lost sister [Knowles, Maid of
Mariendorpt].
Mulhauaen, Clara : beloved and secretly married by
Leonce Miranda [R. Browning, Red-Cotton Xight-cap
Country}.
Miiller, Maud : the subject of a ballad [J. O. \Vhittier,
Maud .Miiller].
Mallet, Professor : the ' most remarkable man ' In North
America [Dickens, Martin Chuzzlcmt].
Mullion, Mordecai : supposed to be intended as the per
sonification of the people of Glasgow [Wilson, A'octet
Ambrosianae].
Mnlton, Sir Thomas de : a Crusader and Master of the
Horse to Richard I [Scott, Talitman].
Mulvaney : an Irish private in the army. Full of humour,
good-temper, and recklessness [Kipling, Soldier*
Three].
Mnmblazen, Master Michael : an old servitor of Sir Hugh
llobsart who acts as his herald [Scott, A'enilioirth].
Mumblecrust, Madge : a character which was reproduced
in various comedies, etc. [Udall, Jlalph Koitter JJoistcr],
MUN 202 MYR
Munehaus«n, Baron : the hero of many marvellous ad
ventures [Raspe, Baron Mmtchausen].
Mnaera : the lovely daughter of Pollente. Talua cut oft
her golden hands and silver feet and cast her into a
moat [Spenser, Fairy Queen*].
Mango : Don Diego's black slave [BickersUfl, Padlock].
Morcraft : ' a projector ' [Ben Jonson, Devil' t an Att].
Murdochson, Madge : known as Madge Wildfire. Ruined
and discarded, and her baby killed by her mother,
Madge went mad [Scott, Heart of AfidZotHian].
— Meg : the mother of Madge Wildfire, a thieving
gipsy [Scott, Beart of Midlothian].
lurdstone.
Murdstone, Miss Jan* : sister of Mr. Edward Murdstone
as severe and gloomy as himself.
Mr. Edward: David's step-father, a terrible,
gloomy man who breaks Mrs. Qopperfleld's heart
[Dickens, David CopperfUtd],
Murray, The Bonnie Earl of : son-in-law of James Stuart,
and known as the ' Good Regent '. He was assassinated
in 1570. The subject of a ballad [Bonnie Earl of
Hurray].
ttluscarol : the king of all flies, and the most beautiful
[Spenser, Muiopolmas ; or. Butterfly' t Fate],
Musgrtve, Little, and Lady Barnard : an old ballad telling
how these two sinned together and were discovered
in their sin and killed by Lord Barnard [Percy, Ke-
Ivrun : Little Mutgrave and Lady Barnard].
Sir Richard : the English champion who fought
the Scottish champion, Sir William of Deloraine
[Scott, Lay of the Latt Mintirel}.
Mosidore : beloved by Damon [James Thomson, Season* :
Summer].
Musidorus : Prince Thessalia, who loved Pamela, and is the
hero of the pastoral [Sidney, Arcadia].
Muslin : a parsite of Mrs. Lovemore's, who is attracted
by William, a footman [Murphy, Way to Keep Him].
Mustafa : the father of Aladdin, a poor tailor [Arabian
NigMt : Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp].
Mateb : one of Robin Hood's company of outlaws.
Moxworthy, Betty : humble friend and servant of the
Ridds [Blackmore, lama Doone].
Muzzle, Mr. : a diminutive, ill-shapen footman in the service
of George Nupkins, Esq. [Dickens, Pickwick Paptrt]
Myrlne : sister of Pygmalion, and in love with Leucippe
[Gilbert, Pygmalion and Galatea].
Myrrh a : an Ionian slave beloved by the king, with whom
she perished in the flames of a funeral pHe lighted by
her own hand [Byron, Sardanapalu*].
MYS 203 NAT
Hysis : wife of Sileno, and mother of Daphne and Nysa
[O'Hara, Midat].
Mystic, Holey : a caricature of the extreme forms of re-
trogade transcendental mysticism [Peacock. Melin-
court].
Nab : a fairy who, seeing Orpheus in the infernal regions,
offered him food in the shape of a flea's thigh, rainbow
tart, etc. [King, Orphan and Eurydice].
Nabob, The : the subject of a lyric [Susanna Blainire, Th*
Nabob].
Nacien : a hermit who conducted Gelahad to the only teat
left vacant at the Round Table, reserved for him who
should find the Holy Grail [Mallory, Hittory of Prince
Arthur].
Nadab : intended for the profligate Lord Howard of Esrick
[Dryden, Abialom and Adritophel].
Naddo : the unsympathetic critic of the poet's mission
[B. Browning, SordeUo].
Nadgeth : Tom Piuch's landlord, whose vocation was that
of a detective [Dickens, Martin Chuzdewit].
Naggleton, Mr. and Mrs. : types of an inharmonious pair,
who could never agree upon trifles [Punch, 1864-5].
Bailor, John : generally known as LitUe John ; tee John,
Little.
Kama : a human being with whom the angel Zaraph was
in love [Thomas Moore, Lave* of the Angel*].
Namby, Major : a much-married, retired officer who u»ed
to deliver all his domestic orders, in a shouting voice,
from the garden path to those within [Collins, Pray
Employ Major Namby].
Hamonna : an enchantress [Thomas Moore, LaUa Kookh :
Light of the Harem].
Sancy : Mrs. Pattypan's pretty servant, a flirt herself and
ready to help with the ' love-aflain ' of other* [Cobb,
First Floor}.
the heroine of one of the songs [Charle* Dibden,
Sea Songi].
a young woman who loves Bill Sykes, and whilst
aiding in his robberies has some womanly instincts
left. She tries to shield Oliv< r and is killed by her
paramour [Dickens, Oliver Twist}.
Narcissa : intended for Mrs. Oldiield, the actress [Pope,
Moral Kttayt, Ep. i.].
intended for the author's step-daughter, Mrs.
Temple [Young, Night Thought*].
Nathaniel, Sir : the absurd evirate in the play [Shakespeare,
Love't Labour'* Lott].
NAT 204 NEW
one of the sons of Usnoth, who took over the
command of the Irish army upon the death of Cuthuliia
[Ossian, Dar-Thula}.
Hatty Bumpo : tee Bumpo, Natty.
Healliny : a suttee : the widow of Kehama's son Arvalaa
[Southey, Curse of Kehama}.
Heckett, Charlotte : called ' Charley ', the daughter of a
sheriffs officer [Dickens, JJUak Haute].
Keddy : a man confined in the Fleet Prison for debt
[Dickens, PirJcwick Papers}.
Hekayab : the sister of Rasselas, who escapes with him
from the ' happy valley ', whither, after long wander
ings, they return [Johnson, Rasselas}.
Hell, Little : see Trent, Nell.
Hello : a barber [George Eliot, Romola}.
Hemo : the name by wluch Captain Hawdon was known
at Krooks, where he lodged [Dickens, Bleak Haute}, tee
alto Hawdon, Captain.
estan : son of D'Outremer, King of Jerusalem, and
brother of Zara [Hill, Zara}. This play is based on that
by Voltaire.
Hereus : father of the water-nymphs [Milton, Comvt}.
Herissa : Portia's confidential maid, who marries Antonio's
friend Gratiano [Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice].
Heuha : a native of the island on which the mutineers of
the ' Bounty ' landed. She married Torquil [Byron,
The Island}.
Herille, Mannaduke : the lover of Sybil Warner [Lytton,
Last of the Barons}.
- Miss : the friend of Kate Hardcastle, and intended
for the bride of Tony Lumpkin. She married Hastings,
Marlow's friend [Goldsmith, She Stoops to Cong-uer].
- Major : the assumed name of Lord Geraldin, son
of Earl Geraldin.
- Mr. Geraldin : uncle to Major Neville [Scott,
Antiquary].
Kewcome, Clemency : married Benjamin Britain, her
fellow servant at Dr. Jeddler's, and became thereby
landlady of the Kutmeg-Graler ' [Dickens, Battle of Life].
- Clive : the hero. He is an artist and marries his
cousin Ethel as his second wife.
- Colonel : a perfect English gentleman, who, be
coming poor, enters the Charterhouse as a pensioner.
The father of Ch've.
- Ethel ; the Colonel's niece, who afterwards marries
Clive.
- Sir Barnes : a thoroughgoing snob, but a keen
business man [Thackeray, The A'ewcomes].
NEW 205 NOE
Hewcome : the ritualistic Vicar of Mottringham : a friend of
Robert Elsmere's [ilrs. Humphry Ward, Robert
Elsmere].
Newfangle, Nichol : the hero of an old ' moral ' play [Fill-
well, Like \Vill to Like, quod the Devil to the Cottier],
Newman, Oliver : the hero of a tale told in verse [Southey,
Oliver Newman : New England Tale}.
Nice, Sir Courtly : the hero of the comedy [Crowne, Sir
Courtly Nice].
Nicholas : a poor scholar in love with Alison, his landlord's
wife [Chaucer, Canterbury Tales : The Miller' t Tale].
- Brother : a monk at St. Mary's convent [Scott,
Monastery].
Nickleby, Godfrey : the father of Ralph and Nicholas, the
elder.
Kate : sister to Nicholas, the younger. She
marries Frank Cheeryble, the nephew of her brother's
benefactor.
Afrt. : a well-meaning but weak and loquacious
woman, discursive to a degree, and of inaccurate
memory.
Nicholas, the elder : the father of Nicholas the
younger, and Kate.
Xicholat the younger : left poor and fatherless
at the age of nineteen. Goes as tutor to Dotheboy's
Hall whence he rescues Smike. Becomes an actor,
then enters the firm of Cheeryble Bros., and finally
marries.
— Ralph : a miserly usurer, uncle of Nicholas the
younger, and Kate, and father of Smike [Dickens,
Nicholas Sickleby],
Nicodemus : the chief character in an old miracle play
founded on a book in the apocryphal gospels.
Nigel : tee Olifaunt, Nigel.
Nina-Thoma : daughter of Tor-Thoma ; she eloped with
Uthal, son of Larthmor, who deserted her [Ossian,
Berrathon}.
Hineve : the name of the Lady of the Lake [Mallory, His
tory of Prince Arthur].
Nipper, Susan : Florence and Paul's faithful nurse, who
marries Mr. Toots. She gives Mr. Dombey a ' piece
of her mind ' [Dickens, Dombey and Son].
Nixon, Christal : Mr. Edward Redgauntlet's agent [Bcott,
KedgaunUet}.
- Noddy ' : see Boffin, Nicodemus.
Noel, Eusebe : the shabby, absent-minded schoolmaster oi
Bout du Monde [Stirling, Gold- Mine ; or Miller of
Grenoble].
NOG 206 NOT
Hoggs, Newman : the honest clerk of Ralph NickJeby
[Dickens, Jficholai Xickleby}.
Nokomis : the grandmother of Hiawatha and daughter
of the Moon [Longfellow, Biauatha}.
Nonentity, Dr. : thought by most of his acquaintances t»
be a great scholar and thinker [Goldsmith, Citizen of
the World].
IToorka, Noorna fln : the betrothed of Shibli Bagaray, wh*
aids him in his adventures by her magic power
[George Meredith, Shaving of Sltagpat}.
Norland, Lord : the father of Lady Eleanor Irwin, and
Lady Ramble's guardian [Mrs. Inchbald, Every on*
hat hit fault].
Norman : the forester of the lord-keeper of Scotland, Sir
William Ashton [Scott, Bride of Lamtnermoor].
Captain : his father having been murdered, Norman
was sent to sea as a boy and his mother married agaiii.
She wished to make her second son, Percy, her hen-.
Complications ensued, but in the end Norman obtained
his righta [Lytton, Sea-Captain}.
Horn a : a prophetess, whose real name was Ulla Troil
[Scott, Pirate].
Norris, Black : a swarthy man, whence his soubriquet.
He was a wrecker, and wished to marry Marian. She
had consented under pressure, but he was had up for
murder before Marian was called upon to fulfil her
promise [Knowles, The Daughter}.
Mrs. : the unamiable, meddling sister of Lady
Bertram [Jane Austen, Manifold Park].
North, Lord : one of the judges before whom Geoffrey
and Julian Peveril and the dwarf had to appear [Scott,
Peveril of the Peak].
Norral, Old : an aged shepherd, who finds a deserted infant,
and brings it up as his own.
Young : the infant, who turns out to be the son of
Lady Randolph, by her first husband, Lord Douglas
[Home, Douglas],
Norwynne, William and Henry : two brothers, the very
antithesis of one another [Mrs. Inchbald, Nature and
Art}.
Nosebag, Mrs.: the Inquisitive wife of a lieutenant of
dragoons, and the companion of Waverley on his
journey to London [Scott, Waverley}.
Nottingham, Countess ol : she to whom Essex entrusted
his ring to convey to Queen Elizabeth when he wa«
imprisoned in the Tower, and who, through jeal
ousy, forebore to deliver it [Jones, Earl of
NOU 207 OAK
NOUBMUI, Sidi : husband of the lovely A mine, who turned
ont to be a ghoul who feasted nightly on the newly
dead. He changed Amiue into a mare which he daily
rode almost to death [Arabian Mights].
Koureddin : son of Vizier Khacan of Balsora, whose bean-
tiful Persian slave he possessed himself of. He fl«d
with her to Bagdad [Arabian Nights}.
— — — AK : younger son of the Vizier of Egypt. He
quarrelled with his elder brother so went to Bason*
where, in due time, he became Vizier [Arabian flights].
Hounnahal : the ' Light of the Harem ', Seline's bride
[Thomas Moore, Latta Rookh].
Kouionihar : daughter of Fakreddin, a beautiful laughing
girl, who married Vathek, and with him descended into
Ebliss, whence she never returned [Beckfcrd, Vathek].
Kouronnihar : niece of the Sultan of India, and beloved
by each of the Sultan's three sons, all of whom had
to compete for her possession. She fell to the lot of
the youngest [Arabian Aights],
Hovel : a despicable character. A railer and flatterer,
and a craver after novelty In any shape [Wycherley,
Plain Sealer].
Now-now, Anthony : a wandering fiddler, intended for a
skit on Anthony Munday the dramatist [Chettle,
Kindheart's Dream}.
Hubbies, Christopher : always called ' Kit '. Devoted to
Little Nell, and acting as odd boy at the Old Curiosity
Shop, afterwards servant to Mr. Garland.
1 Airs. : Kit's mother, a poor widow much given
to attending ' Little Bethel ', a chapel in her neigh
bourhood [Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop].
Hupkins, George, Esq. : tht Mayor of Ipswich [Dickens,
Pifkwick Paperi].
Hnt-brown Maid, The : the heroine of an old ballad. She
is wooed by a ' banished man ' but in her love for him
thinks no hardship too great to endure. He turns out
to be a wealthy son of an earl.
Hydia : the blind girl [Lytton, Last Days of Pompeii].
Hym : the boon companion of Bardolph and Pistol, and
an arrant coward [Shakespeare, Merry Wivet of
Windsor].
Hyg* : daughter of Sileno, and sister of Daphne. In lore
with Apollo, she will have nothing to say to Justice
Midas, who loves her [O'Hara, Midas],
Oakly, Charles : a nephew of the Major ; of a generous
spirit but dissipated. He loves Harriot Kusset, who
reclaims him.
OAK 203 O'DO
Oal:ly, Major : called in by his brother, to aid in curing
Mrs. Oakly of her jealousy.
- Mr. : an easy-going, merry sort of man, who ia
unintentionally for ever rousing his wife's jealousy.
Mrs. : a woman always on the look-out for signs
of her husband's infidelity [Colman the Elder, Jealous
Wife}.
Obadiah : a canting Quaker [Mrs. Centlivre, Bold Stroke
lor a Wife].
a ' drinking nincompoop ' [Howard, Committee].
clerk to Justice Day. Very foolish and a drunkard
[Knight, Honest Thieves}.
a servant employed in the house [Sterne, Tristram
Shandy}.
Oberon : king of the fairies, and the husband of Titania
[Shakespeare, Midsummer Nighft^ Dream}.
Obidah : a young man whose daily actions and travels
form a sort of allegorical picture of human life [Dr.
Johnson, Rambler, No. 65].
Obidicut : one of the five fiends that possessed ' poor
Torn ' [Shakespeare, King Lear}.
O'Brallaghan, Callaghan, Sir : an Irish soldier serving in
Prussia. The accepted suitor of Charlotte Goodchild
[Macklin, Love d-la-Mode].
Obstinate : he dwelt in the City of Destruction, and ex
horted Christian to give up his quest and return to the
bosom of his family [Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress].
Occasion : the mother of Furor. She was seized and bound
hand and foot by Sir Guyon [Spenser, Faery Queent].
Ochiltree, Edie : an old bedesman, good and kind anil
garrulous [Scott, Antiifuary].
Octavia : the leading character of a sixteenth century
play based on the Latin of Seneca [Nuce, Octavia].
Octarian : goes mad because he suspects his lady-love,
Floranthe, of loving another [Colman the Younger,
Mountaineers}.
Octavio : the supposed husband of Jacintha [Beaumont
and Fletcher, Spanish Curate].
engaged to Donna Clara [Jephson, Two Slrinyi to
Your Bow].
O'Cutter, Captain : an Irishman who haa a broad brogue
and indulges in the language of the sea [Colman the
Elder, Jealous Wife].
Odoar : the Abbot of St. Felix, who gave shelter to Roderick
after his fall [Southey, Roderick^
Odoherty, Sir Morgan : one of the interlocutors [Wilson,
.Voc/es Ambroiianac].
O'Dowd, Mrs. : a kindly, vain and rather vulgar IrUh-
OEM 209 OLD
woman, wife of the major of Dobbin's regiment
[Thackeray, Vanity Fair}.
Oenone : beloved by Paris, but forsaken by him whea
Venus promised him the loveliest wife in Greece
[Alfred Tennyson, Oenone \.
O'Ferrall. Trilby : the heroine, the daughter of a sometime
clergyman and Fellow of Trinity, ruined by drink.
Trilby becomes an artist's model, and afterwards a
singer [Du Maurier, Trilby}.
O'Flaher;y. Dennis : an honest and honourable Irishman,
known as 'Major O'Flaherty ' [Cumberland ,West Indian}.
Og: intended for Thomas Shadwell [Dryden and Tate,
Abtalom and Achitophel, pt. ii.].
Ogier the Dane : the hero of several mediaeval romances'.
He is probably the same as Oger or Helgi, who appears
in the Edda and the Volrunga-Saga].
Ogle : a man who fancies himself to be irresistibly fascinat
ing to everybody [.Mrs. Centliore, Beau't Duel].
Miss : jealous of all junior to herself. She to a
friend of Mrs. Kacket [Mrs. Cowley, liellr's Plrntagcm}.
Ogleby , Lord : an ancient fop, who apes the gaiety ami f;»shions
of youth [Colman and Garrick, Clandestine Mnrrutge}.
Osniben : the legate who quelled the disturbances at
Faenza [R. Browning, Soul's Tragedy}.
O'Gordon, Edom : tee Edom O'Gordon.
O'Hara Family : stories of rebellion, passion and crime,
told by two brothers [John and Michael Banim, Talet
of the O'Hara Family].
Oiff M'Combich : a Highland drover who quarrels with an
English one, and stabs him, for which crime he U
hinwlf condemned to death [Scott, Two Drover*}.
Oina-Morul: daughter of King Mal-Orchol of Fuarfed
[Ossian, Oina-Morul}.
Oithona : the daughter of Nuath, affianced bride of Gaul,
but Fiiigal sent to him to fight the Britons. In his
absence his bride was carried off by Uthal [Ossian.
Oithona}.
Olave : the grandfather of Minna and Brenda Troll [Scott.
Pirate}.
Old Grimes : the subject of a ballad at one time very
popular [Albert G. Greene, Old Grimes].
Man o! the Sea : a monster whom Sinbad the
Sailor encountered when on his fifth voyage [Arabia*
Nights}.
- Mortality : a man whose hobby it was to wander
about among tombs cleansing them from moss, etc.
The character is supposed to have been drawn after a
certain Robert Patterson [Scott, Old Mortality}.
W.W.F. P
OLD 210 DLL
Oldboy, Colonel : a retired officer of sociable habits.
• Lady Mary : his wife ; a lackadaisical, sickly
woman [Bickerstaff, Lionel and Claritta}.
OMbuck, Mr. Jonathan : laird of Monkbarns. The anti
quary. The house conjectured to have been his is near
Arbroath [Scott, Antiquary].
OWcastle, Sir John : the hero of a play the author of which
is unknown. The chief character is taken from Sir
John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, who forfeited his life for
high treason [.Sir John Oldautle].
Otdcraft, Sir Perfldiou* : a leading character in the play
[J. Fletcher and others, Wit at Several Weapont].
Old worth. Squire : a wealthy and a cultured man, who, hi
the character of guardian, brings up his own daughter
[Burgoyne, Maid of the Oakt].
aunt, Nigel :
Olilaunt, Nigel : the hero, who is so unhappy as to excite
the enmity of the Duke of Buckingham [Scott, Fortune*
of Nigel}.
Olimpia : a haughty Roman, who, at the sacking of Rome
by the French, took refuge at the high altar of St.
Peter's [Byron, Deformed Trantformed}.
Oliphant : the twin-brother of Argante [Spenser, Fairy
Qveene].
Oliver: son of Sir Rowland de Boys, and brother of Orlando.
He marries Celia, daughter of the usurping Duke
[Shakespeare, At You Like It].
Twist : tee Twist, Oliver.
Olivia : the daughter of a peasant, who became the bride
of a prince, an event which caused great disturbances
in Aragon [Knowles, Rote of Aragon}.
- the wealthy lady whose servant was Malvolio. She
fell in love with Viola, and married Viola's brother
Sebastian [Shakespeare, Twelfth Xight].
— — in love with Vicentio, who was, however, betrothed
to Evadne. Olivia descended to low tricks to gratify
her love, but, later, repented [Shiel, Evadne ; or, The
Statue}.
I. a bold and unblushing hypocrite [Wycherley, Plain
Dealer].
. de Zoniga : determined to wed Julio de Melessina,
she resorts to all sorts of tricks to drive a host of other
suitors away [Mrs. Cowley, Bold Stroke for a Wife}.
— — Primrose : see Primrose, Olivia.
Woodville : tee Woodville, Olivia.
Ollapod. Cornet : a country apothecary ; he thinks him
self a wit, and sows scandal broad-cast through the
countryside [Colman the Younger, Poor Gentleman].
OQomand : an enchanter who was instrumental in raising
OLY 211 ORG
an insurrection in the lands under the rule of Misnar
Sultan of Delhi [Ridley, Tale* of the Genii].
Olympia : the Duke of Muscovia's sister [Beaumont and
Fletcher, Loyal Subject].
O'More, Bory : the hero of a song [Lover, Rory O'More}.
Omri : intended for Sir Heneage Finch, Lord Chancellor
of England [Dryden, Abtalom and Achilophel].
OTfeill : the hero of a tale in verse [Lord Lytton, O'Neill ;
or, The Rebel}.
Oneiza : she loved Thalaba, and married him, but died on
her marriage night [Southey, Thalaba].
Ophelia : beloved by and loving Hamlet. Young, beauti
ful, pure and inexperienced and loving much, she
cannot withstand the shock of Hamlet's sudden change
towards her, and goes mad [Shakespeare, Samlet*.
Miss : the well-intentioned lady, who does her best
to tame and train Topsy [Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Dnele Tom't Cabin],
Opimian, Rev. Dr. : a kind-hearted, self-satisfied, good
living cleric. A peg on which to hang criticisms of
his order [Peacock, QryU Orange].
Ople, General : a retired army officer who settles near
London with his only daughter. He pays attentions
to an eccentric, but aristocratic lady next door, whom
he eventually marries. His egoism blinds his eyes to
all concerns but his own [George Meredith, Case of
General Ople and Lady Campen].
Orange, Louise : the heroine [Brougham, Albert Ltinel}.
Ordella : wife of Thierry, King of France. According to
Lamb ' a piece of sainted nature ' [J. Fletcher, Thierry
and Theodoret}.
Orelio : the pet charger of Roderick, the last of the Goths
[Southey, Roderick}.
Orestes : the son of Agamemnon affianced to Hermione,
daughter of the King of Sparta [Philips, Diitrttied
Mother}.
• the hero of a tragedy modelled on the Greek drama
[Sotheby, Orettes].
Organ ta : the name given to Martha, daughter of Ralph
and Louise Lascours, by the Indians who picked her
up [Stirling, Orphan of the Frozen Sea]. See alto
Lascours, Martha.
Orgilus : the lover of Panthea, but events occurring to
prevent their union, Panthea starved herself to death
and Orgilus was condemned to death for murder [J.
Ford, broken Heart].
Orgcglio : a giant, the personification of pride, who over
powers the Red Cross knight [Spenser, Faery Queene].
ORI 212 ORR
Oriana : daughter of King Lisuarte of England, and wife
of Amadis of Gaul {Amadis de Gaul, a fourteeiuii
centtiry romance].
- betrothed to the son of her guardian, young
Mirabel, who dallies with Lamorce until Oriana, dressed
as a page, rescues him from danger of murder [Farquhar,
Inconstant}.
the quick-witted and plucky chaser of the ' Wild-
goose '.whom she marries [J. Fletcher, Wild-goose Chate}.
the subject of a ballad [Alfred Tennyson, Oriana].
Oriel : a fairy who haunted the banks of the Thames in the
days when Oberon reigned in Kensington Gardens
rfickell, Kensington Gardens].
Orlando : Rosalind's lover, the younger son of Sir Rowland
de Boys, and brother of Oliver [Shakespeare, As 1'ou
Like It].
— — — the handsome, generous hero" and lover of Mouimia
[Mrs. Smith, Old Manor House].
Fnrioso : the subject of a tragedy published in
1594 [Greene, Historie o/ Orlando Furioso].
Orleans : deaparately in love with Agripynar [Dekker,
Old Fortunatus].
Gaston, Duke ol : brother of Louis XIII. He heads
ft conspiracy having for its object the dethronement
of Louis and the death of Richelieu [Lytton, Richelieu}.
Orlick, Dolge : known as ' Old Orlick '. Journeyman to
Joe Gargery, he is responsible for the death of Mr.
Gargery, and tries to murder Pip [Dickens, Great Ex
pectations].
Orme, Victor : a poor man who loves Elsie [Reeve, Parted].
Ormond : the hero of the novel [Maria Edgworth, Ormond]
Ormont, Lord : a brilliant but badly-used cavalry officer.
His efforts to right himself are unsuccessful [George
Meredith, Lord Ormont and His Amintd].
Oronooko : the hero of a novel. He was an African prince,
sold into slavery, and put to death by the authorities.
Irnoinda, his wife, was also sold into slavery [Mrs.
Aphra Behn, History of Oronooko ; or, Royal Slave].
— — the same incidents aa above, treated in dramatic
form [Southern, Oronooko ; or, Royal Slave].
Orozembo : a brave Peruvian, who declined to give any
information to his Spanish captors [Sheridan, Pizarro].
Orpai : sometime Bishop of Seville ; he joined the Moslem
faith, and, for the sake of her wealth, tries to win
Florinda as his wife [Southey, Roderick}.
Orraca, Queen : the wife of Alfonso II. She died in ac
cordance with a prophecy of five Moroccan frian
[Southey, Qufen Orraca].
ORS 213 OSM
Crsino : the Duke of lUyria, first in love with Olivia, but
afterwards with Viola, whom he marries [Shakespeare,
Twelfth Kight}.
Orion : twin brother of Valentine and son of Bellisant.
Carried off in infancy by a bear, and suckled by it,
he was afterwards known as ' the Wild Man of the
Forest [Valentine and Orton].
a worthy Taunton farmer, who disliked the idea
of marriage yet liked the society of women. He dallies
with Ellen, then neglects her, but after an absence
of five years, makes her his wife [Peter Pindar (Dr.
Wolcot), Orton and Ellen\.
Ortheris : a private in the army, a regular ' Tommy Atkins '
[Kipling, Soldier* Three}.
Orville, Lord : ' handsome, gallant, polite, and ardent ',
' extremely handsome, with an air of mixed politeness
and gallantry ' the lover of Evelina [Fanny Burney,
Evelina}.
Osbalclistone, Frank : In love with Diana Vernon, whom
he ultimately marries.
Rathleigh: a deep-dyed villain, the youngest of
Sir Hildebrand's sir sons.
Sir Httdebrand : the uncle of Frank, who is his
heir [Scott, Hob Roy}.
Osborne, Capt. George : son of the city merchant, vain,
extravagant and selfish, but brave. He wins and
marries Amelia Sedley, then neglects her and flirts with
Becky Sharp. He fell at Waterloo.
Mr. : his father, hard and purse-proud, but loving
George and furious at his marriage with Amelia, whom
he never forgave [Thackeray, Vanity Fair].
Oscar : the son of Ossian and grandson of Fingal, slain
in battle, in Ulster, fighting against Cairbar [Ossian,
Temora}.
O'Shanter, Tarn : the hero of the poem is a farmer of Ayr,
who, returning home well primed with drink, sees
witches and devils dancing in the Kirk of Alloway
[Burns, Tarn O'Shanter].
0*Shawhnessy, Dennis : the hero of a story replete with
autobiographical reminiscences [Carleton, Dennii
O'Shaughnetsy, Going to Maynoofh}.
Osile : in love with Sir Thierry [Sir fhty of War-
ifiek}.
Osman : the great sultan who vanquished the Christians.
He loved Zara, a Christian captive, laughter of
D'Outromer, King of Jerusalem, but stabbed her In a
fit of baseless Jealousy [Hill, Zara], based on the
French of Voltaire.
OSM 214 OWE
OsmjTj : really Alphonso, son of the King of ValenUa,
and wedded to Almeria. He is shipwrecked and cast
on the African coast, but after many tribulations is
restored to Almeria [Congreve, Mourning Bride}.
Osric : a court butterfly and fop, who is appointed umpire
in the contest between Hamlet and Laertes [Shake
speare, Hamlet].
Osseo : ' son of the Evening Star ' [Longfellow, Hiawatha}.
Ossian : a bard ; the son of Pingal, King of Morven, and
wedded to Roscrana, an Irish princess.
Oswald : Goneril's steward [Shakespeare, King Lear].
Prince : Gondibert's rival for the hand of Rhodalind.
Oswald fell, slain by Gondibert in a contest between
four chosen representatives [Davenant, Gondibert].
Othello : a brave and noble Moor, tie victim of jealousy
aroused by the evil machinations of others. Under
its influence he slays the wife he adores [Shakespeare,
OiheUo}.
Otho : the host at the banquet where Lara was recognized
by Sir Ezzelin, and a duel was arranged. Sir Ezzelin
not appearing Otho fought the count in his stead
and was wounded [Byron, Lara],
O'Todshaw, Tarn : a huntsman [Scott, Ovy Mannering].
0 'Trigger, Sir Lncins : a blustering Irishman, always
ready for a joke or a fight [Sheridan, Rival*].
Ottilia, Princess : the daughter of a German prince, with
whom Harry Richmond falls in love. She returns his
love, but her royal birth prevents their union [George
Meredith, Advmturet of Barry Richmond].
Otto : Duke of Normandy, who falls a victim to his brother
Rollo [Beaumont and Fletcher, S'.oody Brother].
Otuel, Sir : a Saracen who became a Ooristian and married
a daughter of Charlemagne.
Ootalissi : an eagle of the Indian tribe of Oneyda to whom
Mrs. Waldegrave entrusted her boy Henry, at the
general massacre of the settlers. He carried the child
to Albert of Wyoming [Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming].
Averdo, Justice Adam : a justice of the peace [Ben Jonson,
Bartholomew Fair].
Overreach, Sir Giles : an unscrupulous and grasping man.
Said to be a portrait of Sir Giles Mompesson. His
desire was to see his daughter wed a peer, but she
prefers Allworth, the commoner [Massenger, Kew
Way to Pay Old Debt*}.
Owain, Sir Kyveiliog : an Irish knight, who had to pass
through the purgatory of St Patrick as a penance
[Henry of Saltrey, Descent of Owain].
Oweenee : married to Osseo, who had an ugly exterior,
OWE 215 PAL
and no wealth, but was 'most beautiful within'.
Oweenee was the youngest of ten lovely sisters [Long
fellow, Hiawatha}.
Owen of Carron : illegitimate son of Lady Ellen, daughter
of the Earl of Moray, and the Earl of Nithsdale, the
hero of a ballad [Langbome, Owen of Carron}.
^— — Sir : in a dream he passed St. Patrick's purgatory,
but saved himself from harm by the reiterated cry,
•Lord, Thou canst save1 [Southey, St. Patrick' t
Purgatory].
Oxenford, Clerk ol : a true scholar, for ' gladly would be
learn and gladly teach ' [Chaucer, Canterbury Talet :
Clerk of Oxenlorft Tale].
Pacchiarotto : a painter of Siena, who would fain be »
reformer too [R. Browning, Pacchiarotto, and How he
Worked in Distemper],
Pacolet : a dwarf ' full of great sense and subtle ingenuity '
[Valentine and Orion].
the dwarf who attended Nonna [Scott, Pirate].
Paddington, Harry : ' a poor petty-larceny rascal, without
the least genius ' [Gay, Beggar' $ Opera],
Paeana : in love with her father's captive, Amlas, but he
could not return her love. She married Placldai
[Spenser, Faery Queene].
Page, Anne: 'sweet Anne Page', in love with Fenton.
- Mr. : her father, who assumed the name of Brook,
so as to play a trick on Falstaff.
Mrs. : Anne's mother. Falstaff made love to her,
so she joined her blend, Mrs. Ford, In duping the old
reprobate [Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor],
Paladore : a Briton serving the King of Lombardy ; he
saved the Princess Sophia from the attack of a boar,
and ultimately married her [Jephson, Lawt of Lom
bardy].
Palamedes, Sir : a Saracen who loved Isolde, the same that
Sir Tristram loved. The two knights fought and
Palamedea was overthrown [Arthurian Cycle].
Pakunon and Arcite : the heroes of a tale told by ' the
Knight' [Chaucer, Canterbury Tales: The KniyhCt
Tale],
the hero [J. Fletcher, Two Nolle Kinsmen].
Palemon : in love with the daughter of the ship's com
mander [Falconer, Shipwreck].
' the pride of swains ' In love with Lavinla [Jame«
Thomson, Seasons : Autumn}.
Palfrey, Prudence : the fictitious heroine of a novel [Aldrich,
Prudence Palfrey}.
PAL 216 PAR
Palinode : a. shepherd [Spenser, Shrpheordet Calendar}.
Pallet : a painter quite devoid of all ' reverence (or the
courtesies of life ' [Smollett, Peregrine Pickle]
PaDiser, Plantagenet : strong, proud and cold, upright and
patriotic, but entirely devoid of anything lovable in
his personality [Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive
Eert}
Palmira : daughter of Alcanor, Chief of Mecca, she, together
with a brother, was taken captive by Mahomet in her
babyhood. The brother and sister fell in love with
one another [Miller, Mahomet the Impostor].
Palomides, Sir : son of Sir Astlabor, always known as ' the
Saracen ', being unbaptised. After Lauiicclot, Tris
tram and Lamorake, the strongest and most valiant
of all the knights of the Round Table [Mallory, Hit-
tory oj Prince Arthur].
Pamela : a simple country girl who goes to sen-ice at a
wealthy squire's, and her master tries every wile to
overcome her virtue, but in vain. He makes her his
wife [Richardson, Pamela].
loved by Musidorus [Sidney, Arcadia].
Pamphlet, Dr. : a journalist whose ardent ambition is to
be arrested for sedition [Murphy, Upholsterer] •
Pancks, Mr. : Mr. Casby, the rent-collector's assistant,
who loathes his work [Dickens, Little Dorrit}.
Pangloss, Dr. Peter : a poor pedant, appointed tutor to
Dick Dowlas, at a salary of £300 a year. He began
life as a muffin maker [Colman the Younger, Heir at
IMU>].
Panjandrum, The Grand : the name of a mythical being,
now scoffingly applied to local dignitaries convinced
of their own importance. First used in some nonsense
lines written to test the memory of Macklin the actor
[Foote in the Quarterly Review, xcv. 616, 627
1864].
Panscope, Mr. : a universal philosopher of the most con
ceited and worthless description. One of the party
at Squire Headlong's [Peacock, Headlong HaU].
Panthea : the ' innocent but insipid ' heroine [Beaumont
and Fletcher, King and No King].
Panthino : servant to Anthonio [Shakespeare, Two Gentle
men of Verona],
Paracelsus : an earnest student and seeker after truth
[R. Browning, Paracelsus],
radine:
Paradine : son of Astolpho and brother of Dargonet, who
like Paradine is a suitor for the hand of Laura. Both
brothers were slain in the combat of four \Davenant,
Condiberf].
PAR 217 PAT
Pardiggle, Mrs. : a lady of many committees and many
charities, but who made much noise in doing little
work [Dickens, Bleak House}.
Paridel, Sir : a remote descendant of Paris. He eloped
with Helinore, the wife of Malbecco, and afterwards
deserted her [Spenser, Faery Qucene].
Paris : Juliet's rejected suitor [Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet}.
Parisina : wife of Azo of Ferrara, the, at one tune, betrothed
of his son Hugo, whom she continues to love after her
marriage. Azo, discovering this, causes his son to be
beheaded [Byron, Parisina].
Parismenos : the hero of the second part of Parisians. He
loved the Princess Angelica [Foord, Parismenos}.
Parismns : a Bohemian prince, who loved Laurana,
daughter of the Thessalian king [Foord, Parimw*].
Parizade : daughter of the Sultan of Persia. One of three
babies who were cast adrift through the cruelty of two
mnts [Arabian Nights : Two Sitters].
les : 'an
Parolles : ' a notorious liar and fool ', the servant of Ber
tram [Shakespeare, AW* Well that Ends Well].
Parthenia : the personification of maidenly chastity
[f hineas Fletcher, Purple Island].
the beloved of Argalus [Sidney, Arcadia}.
Panhenope : beloved by Prince Volscius [Duke of Buck
ingham, Jitheartal],
Partington, Mrs. : an old lady who tried, if we are to credit
Sidney Smith, to sweep back the Atlantic with a
broom ; ' the Altantic was roused, Mrs. Partirigton's
spirit was up, but 1 need not tell you that the contest
was unequal' [Shillaber, Mrs. Partington].
Partridge : servant to Tom Jones, and half barber, half
schoolmaster [Fielding, Tom Jones}.
Passebrewell : Sir Tristram's horse [Mallory, History ol
Prince Arthur}.
Passelyon : a foundling, reared by Morgan la Fe> [Perct-
jorest].
Passetreul : see Passebriewell.
Pastorella : a shepherdess whom Corydon adored, but
she cared ' neither for him nor any other ' [Spenser,
Faery Qtirene}.
Patch : Isahinda's maid [Mrs. Centlivre, Buty Body}.
Pathfinder, The : see Bumpo, Natty.
Patie : the hero, in love with Patty : supposed to be a
shepherd, he is in truth the son of Sir William Worthy
[Ramsay, Gentle Shepherd],
Patient Griselda or Grissell : see Griselda.
Patternc, Crossjay : a delightful boy, who live* at Patterne
HaJU A relation of Sir Willoughby Patterne.
PAT 218 PEC
Patterne, Sir WiUoiighly : a rich baronet whose self-love
blinds hla perception to the true feelings of others.
He is in turn engaged to three girls [George Meredith,
The Egoitt}.
Pattypan, Mrs. : a widow who lets lodgings and who marriea
Tim Tartlet [Cobb, First Floor}.
Pau-Puk-Keewis : a bad man who taught the North Ameri
can Indians to gamble [Longfellow, Hiawatha].
Paul Clifford : tee Clifford, Paul.
Dombey : tee Dombey, Mr. Paul.
Ferroll : tee Ferroll, Paul.
Flemming : tee Flemming, Paul.
Little : tee Dombey, Little Paul.
Monsieur : the central figure at Mme. Beck's
school [Charlotte Bronte. VOette and The Professor].
Pauletti, the Lady Erminia : George Heriot's ward [Scott,
Fortimei of Nigel}.
Paulina : wife of Aatigonus, and faithful friend of Her-
mione [Shakespeare, Winter's Tale}.
Pauline : the subject of a love poem [R. Browning, Pauline].
the ' Beauty of Lyons ' who marries Claud Mel-
notte [Lytton, Lady of Lyont}.
Pawkins, Major : an American politician who ' runs a
moist pen slick through everything and starts afresh '
[Dickens, Martin Chwulewit}.
Paiarett, Sir Telegraph : a good-natured, sensible man,
in strong contrast to most of the characters In the
book [Peacock, Mdincovrt}.
Peachnm : a shady character whose house is a meeting-
place for thieves.
— — Mrt. : his wife, no better than her husband.
Potty : their daughter, a pretty girl who loved
and married Captain Macheath [Gay, Beggar't Opera}.
Pearl : the child of Hester Prynne, a strange and wayward
little creature [Nathaniel Hawthorn, Scarlet Letter}.
Peckover : the leader of fce ' Blue Lambs ' [Tom Taylor,
Contested Election}.
Pecksniff, Charity: called 'Cherry', betrothed to Mr.
Moddle, but jilted by him on the day appointed for
the wedding.
Mercy : always called ' Merry ', Charity's younger
sister ; like her father a hypocrite and very vain.
She marries Jonas Chuzzlewit for his money, and is
cruelly treated by him.
S<*h : a Salisbury architect. A self-serving,
mean-spirited, canting hypocrite, who becomes a
drunkard and dies a beggar [Dickens, Martin Chuzzle-
vit}.
FED 219 PEL
Pedrillo : Don Juan's tutor, who is eaten by the men with
whom he la shipwrecked [Byron, Don Juan}.
Pedro, Don : the Prince of Aragon, and the villain who
slanders Hero [Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing].
Peebles, Peter : the drunken pauper who is the litigant in
an interminable law suit [Scott, RedgaunOct}.
Peecher, Hiss Emma : a natty little schoolmistress in love
with Bradley Headstone, who taught in the boy's
department of the same school [Dickens, Ow MuiutU
friend}.
Peel, Mr. Solomon : an attorney at the Insolvent Court in
Portugal Street [Dickens, Pickwick Papert}.
Peeping Tom ol Coventry : tee Godiva, Lady.
Peerybingle, John : a ' lumbering, slow, and honest '
carrier, ' stolid, but so good '.
J/r*. Mary : called ' Dot ' by her husband, by
whom she deserved to be, and was, loved dearly
[Dickens, Cricket on the Hearth}.
Peg-a-Ramsey : the heroine of an old ballad.
Peg of Limavaddy : the heroine of a ballad [Thackeray
Peg of Limavaddy].
Peggotty, Clara : the faithful servant of Mrs. Copperfleld and
David's devoted nurse, who marries Barkis, the carrier.
Daniel : Clara Peggotty's brother. A Yarmouth
fisherman.
Emily '• engaged to Ham, but Steerforth lured
her away from her home. She was reclaimed, and
emigrated to Australia.
Ham : Daniel's nephew, who lived with him. He
loved little ' Em'ly '. An honest, noble fisherman,
who lost his life in trying to save his enemy, Steerforth,
from drowning [Dickens, David Copperfidd}.
Pegler, Mrs. : Bounderby's mother. He allows her the
munificent income of £30 a year to keep out of his
way [Dickens, Sard Times}.
Peknah : attendant on the Princess Nekayah [Dr. Johnson,
Rauelat].
Pelagia : a courtesan at Alexandria [Charles Kings ley,
Hypatia}.
Palayo, Prince : his father had founded the Spanish
monarchy after the fall of Koderick, and he himself
united the royal lines of Spain and of the Goths
[Southey, Roderick}.
Pelham : the hero of the novel [Lytton, Pelham].
Pell, Solomon : the attorney who contrives to get Tony
Weller sent to the Fleet for debt, In order that he may
be near Mr. Pickwick to protect him [Dickens, Pick-
trick Papert}.
PEL 220 PEN
Pelleas. Sir : ' lord of many a barren isle was he ' and be
Joved the lady Ettarre [Alfred Tennyson, Jdyttt of the
King : Petteas and Ettarre].
PeHenore, Sir : ' knight of the Stranger Beast '. The
slayer of King Lot, he lost his own life ten years later
at the hand of Lot's son, Sir Gawaine [Mallory,
Bittory of Prince Arthur].
Pelles, Sir : ' king of the foragn land and nigh cousin of
Joseph of Arimathy'. He was the father of the
Lady Elaine, who, in her turn, was mother of Sir
Galahad, who achieved the quest of the Holy Grail
[Mallory, Bittory of Prince Arthur}.
Pelobates : mud-wader. He is one of the champion frogs
[Parnell, Battle of the Frogs and Mire].
Pelos=mud. He was the father of Physignathos, the
King of the Frogs [Parnell, Battle of the Frog* and
Mitel
Pendennis, Arthur : a young man with much too good an
opinion of himself. With a keen intellect and keen
feelings, he is selfish and unattractive, though the hero.
1 Helen : the mother of Arthur. Very good and
unselfish but rather jealous.
Laura : the heroine, who, In the end, marries
Arthur.
Major : an old ' buck ', and man about town, very
worldly, but very fond of Arthur [Thackeray, Pen-
dfnni*}.
Pendragon : the title borne by Uther, father of King Arthur
[Geoffrey, Chronicle VJ (1142)].
Penelophon : the name of the begear maid whom King
Cophetua loved and married [Percy, Reliques : King
Cophetita and the Beggar-maid}.
Penfeather, Lady Penelope : the lady patroness of the Spa
[Scott, «. Ronarit Well\.
Penlake, Richard : an easy-going man tied to a shrew
[Southey, St. Michad'i Chair}.
Penny, Sir : the subject of a curious old ballad supposed
by some to be contemporary with Chaucer, wherein
the power of money is described with much wit and
satire [fneipti Narratio de Domine Denario].
Jock : a highwayman [Scott, Guy Mannering}.
Penruddock, Roderick : a recluse and a bookworm. Soured
by misfortunes, for his bosom friend came between
him and his betrothed : he forgives him in the end and
returns good for evil [Cumberland. Wheel of Fortune}.
Penthea : betrothed to Ithocles, but forced into a hated
marriage with Bassanes, she starves herself to death
[J. Ford, Broken Heart}.
PEN 221 PER
Pentweazel, Alderman : a very submissive and obedient
husband.
Card : son of the alderman ; a schoolboy [Foote,
Tatte].
Mrt. : his wife. A fearfully vain, ignorant and
foolish woman who talks about ' Venus de Medicis, the
sister of Mary de Medicia ' [Foote, Taste].
— — ^— Sukey : daughter of the alderman and married to
Mr. Deputy Dripping.
Pepperpot, Sir Peter: a testy old West Indian, very
wealthy [Foote, Patron}.
Peps, Dr Parker : a court physician, who always addressed
his patients by a title, that they might think that he
only attended those of the very first rank [Dickens,
Dombey and Son].
Perch, Mr : messenger to the firm of Dombey and Son,
who lived at Ball's Pond.
Mrt. : his wife and the partner of hia joys [Dickens,
Dombey and Son].
Percivale, Sir : third son of Pellinore, King of Wales, and
one of the very few knights who ever beheld the Holy
Grail [Mallory, History of Prince Arthur; he also
figures in Tennyson's Idyll* of the King : Merlin and
Vivien ; Launcelot and Elaine].
Percy : the hero of a tragedy which ran for seventeen
nights [Hannah More, Percy].
Percyvell : the hero of a romance of the fifteenth century
[attrib. Kobert de Thomson, PercyveU of
OaUe*]
Perdita : the daughter of Leontes and Hermioue exposed
in infancy, to death, by order of her father, but
rescued by a shepherd [Shakespeare, Winter'*
Tale].
Peredur, Sir : son of Evrawe, and a knight of the Bound
Table [.V abinnyion].
«rine : the hero of the play, who, at the age of fifteen,
runs from home, borrowing £30 from a brazier. Noth
ing is heard of him for thirty years, and then he returns
with £100,000, of which he hands £10,000 to the
brazier as his honest profit [Colman the Younger,
John Bull].
Perey, Michael : the ' copper Captain ' who marries a
servant, believing her to be a lady of position, she
marrying him for money which he does not possess
[J. Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife].
Pericles : a voluntary exile, in order to turn the wrath of
the Emperor of Greece, Antiochus, from the Tyriana
[Shakespeare, Peridet, Prince o/ Tyre].
PER 222 PET
Pericles, Antonio : a rich Greek merchant, and partner ol
Mr. Pole. He has a passion for music and determines
to have Sandra Belloni trained in Italy. Clever but
unscrupulous [George Meredith, Sandra Bettoni].
and Aspasia : the writers of a series of letteri
[Landor, Peridet and Atpatia}.
Perigot : in love with Amoret, but beloved by Amarillis
who gets herself transformed into the image of Amoret.
Perigot discovers the truth and marries Amoret [J.
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdett].
Perimones, 8ir=the Red Knight. One of those who kept
the entrances to Castle Perilous. Gareth vanquishes
him. Tennyson calls him ' Noonday Sun ' [Mallorr,
Hittory ol Prince Arthur ; also Alfred Tennyson, Idyllt
ol the King : Gareth and Lynette].
Perissa : the impersonation of extravagance [Spenser,
Faery Quetne].
Periwinkle, Mr. : ' dotes npon travellers, and beflevea
more of Sir John Mandeville than of the Bible '. He
Is one of Anne Lovely's four guardians [Mrs. Centlivre,
Bold Stroke for a Wife}.
The Princess : a character in the comedy [Smart,
Trip to Cambridge; or, Grateful Fair].
Perker, Mr. : Mr. Pickwick's attorney in the suit of ' Bar-
dell v. Pickwick ' [Dickens, Pickwick Paperi}.
Perkins, Mrs. : the subject of ' a Christmas Book ' [Thac
keray, Mn. Perkint' Salt].
Persaunt of India, Sir : the Blue Knight, called by Tenny
son, ' Morning Star '. He aided in guarding the
approaches to Castle Perilous, but was defeated by
Gareth [Mallory, History of Prince Arthur ; and Alfred
Tennyson, Idyllt of the King : Gareth and Lynette}.
Persoun, The Poore : a poor parish priest, who himself
walked in the way he pointed out to others [Chaucer,
Canterbury Tales : Prologue].
Perth, Fair Maid ol : tee Glover, Catherine.
Pertolope, Sir : the ' Evening Star ', or ' Hesperus ', one
of the brothers who guarded the approaches to Castle
Perilous, overthrown by Gareth [Mallory, History ol
Prinr-e Arthur; and Alfred Tennyson, Idyttt of the
King : Gareth and Lynctte].
Pescara : governor of Granada, This part was played
by Macready [Sheil, Apoitatt].
' Pet ' : tee Meagles, Minnie.
Petella : attendant on Mantelet's two daughters [J.
Fletcher, Wild-goose Chate],
Peter, Lord : intended for the Pope of Rome [Swift, Tale
of a Tub ; also, Arbuthnot, Hiitory of John Bull].
PET 223 PHI
Peter : the half-idiotic son of Solomon, Count Wintersen's
butler [B. Thompson, The Stranger}.
Peterson : a Swede who goes over from Gustavus Vasa to
Christian n [Brooke, Outlaw* Vasa].
Peto : lieutenant in the regiment where Falstaff was
captain, Pistol ensign, and Bardolph corporal [Shake
speare, King Henry IV, pt. i. and ii.].
Petowker, Miss Henrietta : an actress who marries Lilly-
vick, the rate-collector, and then runs away with an
officer [Dickens, Nicholas Nicklrby}.
Petruchio : the man who ventures to marry the ' shrew '
and succeeds in taming her [Shakespeare, Taming of
the Shrew].
Petulant : a dreadful person ' without manners or breed
ing ', also without morals or dignity, and full of under
hand tricks [Congreve, Way of the World],
Peveril, Julian : a Cavalier who falls in love with the
daughter of a Roundhead, and, in spite of many
difficulties, marries her [Scott, Peveril of the Peak].
Phaedra : a waiting woman of very low character [Dryden,
Amphitryon].
Phaedria : the personification of wantonness [Spenser,
Faery Quecne].
Fhaleg : intended for a Mr. Forbes, at one time tutor to
the Duke of Onnond [Dryden and Tate, Absalom and
Achitophel].
Phaon : in love with Claribel, but believing he had proof
of her infidelity he slew her on the spot [Spenser, Faery
Queene].
Pharamond : a French king who tried by knightly deeds
to win a place at the Round Table [Arthurian Cycle].
^—^— a Spanish prince [Beaumont and Fletcher, Love
Liet Blenling].
Pharaoh's Wife=Asia, the daughter of Mozahem, cruelly
tortured by her husband because of her faith in Moses
[Sale, Al Kordn\.
Phebe : a shepherdess loved by Silvius, a shepherd [Shake
speare, At You like 11].
Philander : a prince of Cyprus who loved the I' rincess
Erota [J. Fletcher, Laws of Candy],
a counsellor [Norton and Buckhurst, Oorbodue].
Philarete : intended for Thomas Manwood, the author's
friend [Browne, Shepherd's Pipe].
Philargyria : represents Avarice in a moral interlude of
the late fifteenth or very early sixteenth century
[J. Skelton, The Xigramansir}.
Philario : an Italian. It is at his bouse that Posthumus
lays his wager with lachimo [Shakespeare, Cymbtline],
PHI 224 PHI
Philario: » friend who remained true to the hero through all
his troubles [Milman, Fazio}.
Philaster : loved the Princess Arethusa, whilst Kuphrasia
waa In love with him. Many complications ensue,
but the right people marry at last [Beaumont and
Fletcher, Philaster ; or. Love Lie* Bleeding].
Philip : in love with Elspie [Clough, Bothie of Tober-ne-
Vvolieh].
——— the hero of the novel ; the story shows ' who robbed
him, who helped him, and who passed him by'
[Thackeray, Adventwet of Philip].
—— Mr. Peregrine Level's butler, a dishonest and
hypocritical servant [Townley, High Life Below Stairt].
— — — a dreadful prig, overwhelmed by a sense of his own
virtues. He is the hero [Charlotte Yonge, Heir of
heddiffe].
Van Artevelde : tee Artevelde, Philip Van.
Philippe : a shrewd though infirm old villain, with a
malicious tongue [Knowles, Provott of Brugr»\.
Phiiipson, Arthur : Sir Arthur de Vere, son of the Earl of
Oxford, who accompanies him in his exile.
John, Earl of Oxford. : an exiled Lancastrian
[Scott, Anne of Griettein].
Philisides=Sir Philip Sidney.
Phillida : tee Galathea and Phillida.
and Corydon : the hero and heroine of ' a pleasant
song ' sung before Queen Elizabeth at Elvetham in
1691 [Breton, PhiUida and Corydon}.
Phillips, Jessie : the heroine of a novel written with the
object of attacking the poor-law system [Mrs. Trollop*.
Jatie PMUipt}.
Philoclea=Lady Penelope Devereux, with whom the
** -author was in love [Sidney, Arcadia].
Philologus : the hero of a moral play [Conflict of Cun-
tcience].
Philomelus : a druid bard [James Thomson, Cattle of
Indolence].
Philonides and Menippus : characters in an incomplete
Latin play which was probably acted at St. Paul's
School [Rightwise, Philonidet and Menippiu].
Philostrate : master of the revels to Theseus [Shakespeare,
Midrummer Nighfi Dream].
Philotas : son of Pannenlo. By some thought to be In
tended for the unhappy Earl of Essex [Samuel Daniel,
PhUotat}.
Philotine : the Queen of Hell and daughter of Mammon,
who offers her to Quyon as wife [Spenser, Fairy
PHI 225 PIE
Philotimuj : ambition personified [Phineas Fletcher,
Purple Island}.
Philpot [senior] : an avaricious, disagreeable old man who
shook his head ' like a china mandarin.'
Philpot, George : his son, a young profligate whom every one
despises and scon's at [Murphy, Citizen].
Philtra : a wealthy woman whose chief love was money,
so, her lover, Bracidas, growing poor, she throws him
over for his wealthier brother Amidas [Spenser, Faery
Queene].
Phobbs. Captain and Mrs. and Mrs. Major Phobbs : are all
characters in the play [J. M. Morton, Lend me Five
Shilling*].
Phocyas : general of the Syrian army, and the hopeless
admirer of Eudocia, daughter of the Governor of
Damascus [John Hughes, Siege of Damatcus].
Phoebe, Pyncheon : see Pyncheon, Phoebe.
Phosphorus : calle 1 by Tennyson * Horning Star ', the
same as Sir i'ersaunt, q.v.
Phunky, Mr. : assists Sergeant Snubbin in the defence of
Mr. Pickwick in the suit ' Bardell v. Pickwick '[Dickens,
Pickwick Papert].
Phyllis=Lady Carey, wife of Sir George Carey [Spenser,
Colin Clout '$ Come Home Again].
and Brunetta : beauties who vied with each other
in the endeavour to shine in the eyes of the world
[Addison, Spectator, Nos. 1711, 1712, 1714].
Physignatho* : the King of the Frogs, who is wounded by
Troxartas, the King of the Mice [Parnell, Battle of
the Frog* and. Mice].
Piavens, Laura : a young Italian widow with two children.
Her husband was shot by the Austrians and her whole
life is devoted to the cause of Italian freedom [George
Meredith, VOioria].
Pickle, Peregrine : an ungrateful spendthrift capable of
' base brutality ' and of tormenting others ' by practi
cal jokes, resembling those of a fiend in glee ' [Smollett,
Peregrine Pickle].
Pickwick, Samuel : the type of all innocence and bene
volence, and the founder of the world-famed Pickwick
Club [Dickens, Pickwick Papers].
Pied Piper of Hamelin : a mysterious piper who, by the
power of his flute, could draw, not only rats, but
children after him, from out of the town of Hamelin
into the Koppenberg [E. Browning, Pied Piper ol
Hamelin].
Pierre : the meddlesome, prying servant of Mon. Darle-
mont [Holcroft, Deaf and Dumb].
W.W.F. Q
PIE 226 PIP
Pierre, Peer : takes the leading part in a plot to assassinate
the senators of Venice [Otway, Venice Pretervtd}.
Piers Plowman : tee Plowman.
Pigwiggen : a fairy warrior who loves Queen Mab, and
fights Oberon [Brayton, NympMdia}.
Pinac : a companion of Mirabel on his Journeyings [J.
Fletcher, Wild-goose Chate}.
Pinch : a schoolmaster and conjuror [Shakespeare, Comedy
of Errors].
— — Rnth : a governess. The sister of Tom Pinch and
his delight. She marries John Westlock.
Tom : Mr. Pecksniffs clerk and a great lover of
the organ, which he sometimes got leave to play in
Salisbury Cathedral [Dickens, Martin Chuzdevit\.
Pinchbeck, Lady : the lady to whom Don Juan entrusted
Leila [Byron, Don Juan].
Pinchwiie, Mr. : a town-bred man married to an untrained
country girl.
i Urt. : very young and very unsophisticated, and
therefore a great anxiety to her husband [Wycherley,
Country Wife].
Pineapple, Poll : she once went to sea with Lieutenant
Belaye, dressed as a sailor, and when he introduced
her one day to his crew as Mrs. Belaye, all the crew
fainted and then he found out they were all women
who had dressed Hke sailors so as to follow him [Gilbert,
Bob Ballads}.
Pinkerton, The Hisses : some most dignified ladies who
kept an educational establishment for young ladies
on Chiswick Mali. Here Amelia Sedley went to school
and Becky Sharp was a pupil teacher [Thackeray,
Vanity fair].
Pip : tee Pirrip, Philip.
Pipchin, Mrs. : the old lady with whom Paul Dombey was
sent to board, at Brighton [Dickens, Dombey and Son}.
Piper, Paddy the : an Irish piper, whom his neighbours
thought had been swallowed by a cow [Lover, Legendi
and Stories of Ireland}.
ol Hamelin, The Pied : tee Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Piperman : a druggist's assistant who prided himself on
being ' so handy ' [Ware, Piperman's Predicament].
Pipes, Tom : a silent old boatswain's mate who lives %'ith
Commodore Trunnion and superintends his household
for him [Smollett, Peregrine Pickle}.
Pipkin, Nathaniel : the ' parish Clerk ' who falls in love
with Marie Lobbs. Good-natured, harmless and lame,
with a squint [Dickens, Pickwick Papers}.
Pipp» : a little silk-winder at Asolo. with one holiday a
PIR 227 RLE
year, and that is New Year's Day. Her innocent
gladness has far-reaching influence for good [11.
Browning, Pippa Posset],
Pirate, The : see Troil, Magnus.
Pirrip, Philip : always known as ' Pip ', the brother of
Mrs. Joe Gargery, and the teller of the story. Abel
Magwitch, the ex-convict, makes him his heir, but
he loses all his money again and becomes a clerk and
marries Estella [Dickens, Great Expectations].
Pisani, Angela : the heroine [Smythe, Angela l'ifani\.
Pisanio : the servant whom Posthumus sends to murder
Imogen, his wife, but who instead aids her flight to
Milford Haven [Shakespeare, Cymbdine}.
Pistol : a bragging ale-house bully whom Fluellen forces
to eat a leek [Shakespeare, Henry V}.
Pithyrian : a pagan dwelling hi Antioch, with one daughter,
a Christian, Marana by name. Upon a dragon infesting
the city Marana was chosen as the sacrifice to appease
its appetite, but Pithyriau saves his child with tht-
aid of the thumb of a saint [Southey, Young Dragon}.
Pizarro : a Spanish adventurer who stirred up war in Peru
[Sheridan, Pizarro].
' the ready tool of fell Velasquez ' crimes ' [Jephson,
Bragarua].
Place. Lord : a candidate for Parliament who employs
the aid of bribery [Fielding, Pasrjuin].
Placebo : a brother of January, Baron of Lombardy
[Chaucer, Canterbury Tales : The Merchant's Tale].
Placid, Mr. : a docile husband, like * a boiled rabbit without
oyster sauce '.
— — Mrs. : a wife who had her hsuband as well as her
household under absolute command [Mrs. Inchbald,
Every One has His Fault].
Placidas : the absolute double of his friend Amias [Spenser,
Fairy Qveene].
Plagiary, Sir Fretful : an ineffectual playwright, very con
ceited too, and impatient of criticism. Said to have
been intended for Cumberland [Sheridan, The
Critic}.
Plantagenet, Lady Edith : married to Kenneth, Prince
Royal of Scotland, known as David, Earl of Hunting
don, or, the Knight of the Leopard [Scott, Talisman].
Plausible : a character in the play [Wycherley, Plain
Dealer].
Counsellor, and Sergeant Eitherside : two pleaders
[Macklin, Man of the World}.
Pleydsll, Mr. Paulas : an adv
ocaU and sheriff [Scott, Guy
Manner ing}.
PLI 228 POG
Pliable. Mr. : a friend who went with Christian as far as tha
Slough of Despond [Bunyan, Pii/jrim't Proyreti].
Pliant, Dame : a foolish widow, who marries Lovewit [Ben
Jonson, Alchemist].
Sir Paul : a uxorious old man, on whose kindness
his wife presumes [Congreve, Double Dealer].
Plornish : a plasterer living in Bleeding Heart Yard ; a
friend of Little Don-it
Mr*. : his wife, prematurely aged by the cares of
poverty and a large family [Dickens, Little Don-it].
Plowden, Kate : an American girl in love with a British
sailor, Lieutenant Barnstable [Fitzball, The Pilot].
Plowman. Fieri : a satirical political poem dated 1370.
Piers is at the beginning ' a blameless ploughman and
a guide to men who are seeking the shrine of truth ' ;
and afterwards ' a blameless Carpenter's son who
alone can show us the Father '. — Skeat. It should be
the 'Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman',
[attrib. William Langland, Virion of Piert Plowman].
Plnme, Captain : in love with the heiress, Sylvia, for
whom he resigns bis commission [Farquhar, Recruiting
Officer}.
Sir : Intended for Thomas Coke, vice-chamberlain
to Queen Anne [Pope, Rape of the Lock}.
Plummer. Bertha : the blind daughter of Caleb. Secretly
in love with Tackleton.
— — Edward : Caleb's son who, after a long absence
in South America, comes home and marries May
Fielding [Dickens, Cricket on the Hearth}.
Caleb : a toy-maker, who devotes himself to his
blind child.
Pocket, Belinda: Matthew Pocket's wife. A helpless
nonentity, and the mother of eight children.
Beroert : the son of Matthew's, and a great friend
of ' Pip's ', who secretly renders him great assistance.
Matthew : a relative of Miss Havisham's. He is
a finished scholar and a Cambridge ' Honours man '.
Through force of circumstances he became a literary
hack [Dickens, Great Expectation*].
Portsnap. Georgina : an affectionate, shy and rather foolish
girt.
— — Mr. John : a self-satisfied, pompous man, swelling
with a sense of his own importance and settling all
difficulties by a sweep of the arm [Dickens, Our Mutual
Friend}.
Pogram, The Hon. Elijah : an American member of Con
gress, and ' one of the master minds of our country
[Dickens, Martin Chusdevrit].
POI 229 POM
Poins : one of Falstaii's disreputable booa companions
[Bhahespeare, Henry IV, pts. i. and ii.].
Pole, Arabella, Cornelia and Adela : the daughters of a
city merchant, whose great aim is to get into county
society. Their efforts to achieve this are full of
comedy. Though essentially vulgar, they are super-
refined.
— - — Mr. : a nervous little city merchant, who is forced
Into expensive living by his three daughters, lie has
speculated with Mrs. Chump's money and is filled with
dread of exposure.
Wilfrid : his son. He falls partly In love with
'Sandra Belloni, but at the same time proposes to a
lady of title, who accepts him. Eventually he loses
both [George Meredith, Sandra BeUoni}.
Polish, Mrs. : a character In a comedy [Ben Jonaon,
Magnetick Lady}.
Poliienes : the King of Eohemia, and old friend of Leontes,
King of Sicily [Shakespeare, Winter't Tale].
Poll : see Sweedlepipe, Fatal.
Pollente : the father of Munera : a Saracen, lord of the
Perilous Bridge [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Polonius: a garrulous, self-corn ulaisaut old man, cham
berlain to the King of Denmant.aiid the father of Ophelia
and Laertes. Full of ' wise saws and modern instances '
[Shakespeare, JHamlei].
Polydore : the name used by Prince Ouiderius during hla
concealment in Wales [Shakespeare, Cumbdint}.
beloved by tlie King of Paphos's sister Calw [Bean-
mont and Fletcher, Mad Lover}.
son of Lord Acasto, the guardian of Honimia, to
whom he behaves in the most wanton and scandalous
manner [Otway, The Orphan].
Polyglot : tutor of Charles Eustace, and himself master
of seventeen languages. His pupil being secretly
married, he makes himself the young man's ' scape-
goaf and helps him out of his difficulties [Poole,
Scapegoat].
Polyzena : the noble wife of Charles Emanuel, King ol
Sardinia [R. Browning, King Victor and King Charlei}.
Pompilia : a young wife, murdered by her husband Guido
Franceschlnl, who charges her with Infidelity [H. Brown
ing, Ring and the Book].
Pompey : a clown in the service of Mrs. Overdone [Shake
speare, Meavtre for Measure}.
Ponto, Major : a retired officer, who, Instigated by his wife,
endeavours to mix only with ' county families '
(Thackeray, Book of Snob»].
POO 230 PRA
Poole, Mrs. : the woman in charge of the maniac, Mrs.
Rochester, and whose carelessness give* the mad
woman the opportunity of setting flre to the house
[Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre],
like his brother Marcus, In love with Lucie.
Marcus falls in battle so Porcius attains bis heart's
desire [Addison, Cato].
tee Gorboduc.
Porsena or Porsenna, Lars : a legendary King of Etruria
[Macaulay, Lay* of Ancient Home].
Poziamour : the officer employed by Cupid to summon
lovers who were in disgrace to ' Love's Judgment Hall '
[Spenser, Faery Queent].
Porteous, Captain John : an officer of the Edinburgh City
Guard hanged by the mob in the ' Porteoue riots '
[Scott, Heart of Midlothian].
Portia : the heiress whom Bassanio wins, and who, by
disguising herself as a doctor of law and pleading in
the judgment hall rescues her husband's friend and
benefactor, Antonio, from the hands of Shylock, the
Jew [Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice].
Foslhurnus, Leonatus : the unworthy husband of Imogen
[Shakespeare, Cymbeline],
Pother, Doctor : a great teller of stories and anecdotes
[C. J. M. Dibdin, Farmer's Wife].
Pota, Tom : occurs in an old ballad, where his valour wins
bun his heart's desire [Lover't Quarrel].
Pott, Mr. and Mrs. : editor of the EatanswiU. Gazette, and hU
wife [Dickens, Pickwick Paper*].
Potterson, Miss Abbey : the owner and manageress of a
tavern called ' The Six Jolly FeUotcthip-Portert '
[Dickens, Our Mutual Friend],
Pounce, Peter : one of the characters in the novel [Fielding,
Joseph Andrews].
Poundtext, Peter : a preacher jn the army of the Covenan
ters [Scott, Old Mortality].
Peyser, Mrs. : a woman of kind heart and great common
sense but caustic tongue, whose sayings and criticisms
on life and her neighbours are inimitable [George Eliot,
Adam Bede].
Pratefast, Peter : ' in all his life he spake no word hi waste '
[Hawes, Patie-tyme of Pleasure].
Pratt, Miss : a poor relation and hanger-on of the Earl
of Rossville. Keen-sighted, prying and impertinent
[Susan E. Perrier, Inheritance].
Prattle, Mr. : a general practitioner and inveterate gossip
[Colman the Elder, Deuce it in Him].
PRt 231 PRI
Preciosa : a gipsy girl, the heroine of the poem [Long
fellow, Spanish Student].
Pretlyman Prince : sometimes disguised aa a fisherman,
sometimes appearing as a prince, he is in love with
Cloris. Said to be meant as a parody on Leonidas, in
Dryden's play, Marriage d-la-Mode [Duke of Buck
ingham, Rehearial}.
Priaoius, Sir : the possessor of a phial of healing waters
that came from Paradise. He was a knight of the
Bound Table [Mallory, Hittory of Prince Arthur}.
Price, Fanny : the adopted daughter of her rich uncle, Sir
Thomas Bertram, and married to his son Edmund.
William : Fanny Price's sailor brother [Jane Austen
Mansfidd Park].
Matilda : a friend of Miss Squeers, afterwards
Mrs. John Browdie [Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby}.
Pride, Sir : at one time a drayman, but afterwards a Colonel
in Cromwell's army [Butler, Hudibrat}.
Pridwin : King Arthur's shield [Geoffrey, British Hillary}.
Prig, Betsey : a monthly nurse, the friend, and often the
partner of Mrs. Gamp [Dickens, Martin Chuzzlevrit}.
Prim, Obadiah : a Quaker [Mrs. Cenlilvre, Bold Stroke lor
a Wile}.
Prima Donna, Lord : one of the characters in the novel
[Lord Beaconsfleld, Vivian Grey}.
Primer, Peter : a country schoolmaster with unbounded
faith in himself [Foote, Mayor of Oarrath}.
Primrose, George : went to Amsterdam to teach English,
afterwards became a captain in the army and married
the heiress, Miss Wilmot.
— — Motet : famous for his transaction of selling his
father's horse in exchange for a gross of green spec
tacles.
Mr». Deborah : the vicar's comely wife. Proud
of her husband, her children, and her gooseberry wine,
and very anxious to appear ' genteel '.
Olivia : elder daughter of the ' vicar ' ; sh« eloped
with Squire ThoruliiU.
Rev. Doctor : charitable, devout, and unworldly,
and full of a quiet humour. A very ideal * vicar.'
~ Sophia : the vicar's second daughter, ' soft, modest,
and alluring'. She marries Sir William ThornhlU
[Mr. Burchell]. [Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefeld\.
Prince Ahmed : tee Ahmed, Prince.
Alasnam : tee Alasnam, Prince.
Beder : tee Labe, Queen.
— — Camaralzaman : tee Camaralzaman.
PRI 232 PRO
Prince Houssain : tee Houesain, Prince.
Prettyman : tee Prettyman, Prince.
Volscins : set Volscius, Prince.
Pringle, Andrew : son of the Rev. Dr. Prlngle, who alms
at being a young man of fashion.
JJrt. : his wife, a very ' managing body ', great in
all housewifely arts.
Rachel : sister to Andrew, who marries Captain
Sabre.
— — (he Rev. Dr. : incumbent of Garnock, Hie residuary
legatee. A benevolent, simple old man [Gait, Ayre-
thire Legatees].
Priory, Lady : Lord Priory's young, beautiful and loving
wife, who agreed with him in his old-fashioned ideas.
Lord : a man with old-fashioned ideas as to the
duties and proper conduct of wives [Mrs. Inchbald,
Wivet at they Were and Maid* as they Are}.
Friscilla : the heroine of the poem [Longfellow, Courtship
of MUes Standish].
of noble birth herself, she fell in love with a poor
knight, Sir Aladine [Spenser, faery Queene].
Prisoner of Chillon : this poem is founded on the experience
and sufferings of Bonnivard, the Genevan martyr to
independence [Byron, Prisoner of Chitton}.
Priuli : a member of the Venetian senate, whose daughter
Belvidera loved a commoner, Juffier, by name, who
had rescued her from a watery grave. Priuli would
not consent to then- union, and in revenge Juffier
formed a plot to murder all the senators, but gave his
father-in-law warning in the end [Otway, Venice
Preserved].
Probe : a surgeon not above magnifying the ailmenta
of his patients that his fees might increase [Sheridan,
Trip to Scarborough}.
Procida, John of : a skilled physician of the thirteenth
century, who, after a general rising against the French,
was elected King of Sicily [Knowles, John of Procida}.
Prometheus : the hero of a translation from the Greek
of Aeschylus [Elizabeth B. Browning, Promefheut
Bound}.
—— a poem based on the old tradition of how Prometheus
stole fire from heaven [Longfellow, Prometheut ; or.
The Port's Forethought}.
— — — steals fire from heaven and fa punished by being
chained to a rock and pecked at by a vulture [Shelley,
Prometheus Unbound].
Promos and Cassandra : two characters in a tragedy which
is supposed to have suggested some ideas to Shake-
PRO 233 PSY
speare In Measure lor Measure [Whetstone, Promot
and Catsandra}.
Prophet of Khorassan, The Veiled : tee Mokanna.
Prospero : intended as a likeness of Francis Douce [T. P.
Dibdln, Bibliomania}.
through neglect of his office for the sake of the
study of magic, he lost the Dukedom of Milan, but
he regained it through his mastery of the art. He
was the father of Miranda [Shakespeare, Tempest].
Pross, Hiss : Lucie Manette's maid. An unattractive
looking woman with abrupt manners, but very de
voted to her mistress [Dickens, Tale of Two
Cities}.
Proteus : one of the two gentlemen of Verona, and in love
with Julia [Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona].
Protocol, Mr. Peter : an Edinburgh attorney employed by
Mrs. Bertram [Scott, Guy Mannering}.
Proudie, Bishop : the successor of Bishop Grantley as
Bishop of Barchester. A thoroughly henpecked man.
Mr*. : his domineering, masculine wife [Anthony
Trollope, Barchester Tower*].
Provis : see Mag witch, Abel.
Prudence : the ' noble wyf ' of Melibeus [Chaucer, Can
terbury Tales : Chaucer's Tale of Melibeus}.
Mistress : attendant on Violet, Lady Arundel'a
ward. Not unassailable by bribery so long as the
terms were high enough [Lytton, Sea-Captain].
Prue, Miss : a precocious and badly brought-up schoolgirl
[Congreve, Love for Love}.
Pry, Kitty : an impertinent and Inquisitive waiting-maid,
who admires Timothy 3harp, the ' valet ' [Garrick,
Lying Valet].
Paul : ' one of those idle, meddling fellows, who
having no employment themselves are perpetually
interfering in other people's affairs ' [Poole, Paul Pry\.
Prynne, Hester : the heroine. A poor woman who having
strayed from the path of virtue is compelled thence
forth to wear a large scarlet letter sewn on the front
of her dress, that all may know her shame, in accord
ance with the harsh New England law in force in the
early days of the settlement [Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Scarlet Letter].
Pryor, Mrs. : Shirley Keeldar's governess and companion,
who turns out to be Caroline Helstone's mother
[Charlotte Bronte, Shirley].
Psycarpax=granary-thief ; the name of the son of
Troiartai, King of the Mice [Parnell, Battle of At
*••-« and Mice].
P8Y 234 PYE
Psyche : the subject of a poem in six cantos [Mrs. Mary
Tighe, Psyche}.
the subject of a poem in twenty-four cantos [Joseph
Beaumont, Piyche ; or, Love't Mystery],
Publius : son of Horatius. He believed in and acted upon
the Roman principle that ' a patriot's soul can feel no
ties but duty, and know no roice of kindred ' [White-
head, Roman Father].
Pucel, La Bel : lived in the tower of music, and was loved
by Graunde Amoure [Hawes, Passe-tyme of Pleasure].
Pack : ' a rough, knurly-limbed, fawn-faced, shock-pated,
mischievous little urchin ', often called Bobin Good-
fellow. Jester to King Oberon [Shakespeare, Mid
summer Night's Dream}.
Puff, Mr. Partenopex : ' a modest wit J who having said
a good thing generally tries to father it on to some one
else [Beaconsfleld, Vivian drey}.
a vendor of quack physic [Foote, Tht Patron].
an auctioneer [Foote, Taste].
Captain Loveit's servant, married to Tagg [Garrick,
Mist in her Teem}.
' a practitioner hi panegyric. . . a professor of
the art of puffing ' [Sheridan, The Critic].
Pug : a little hobgoblin, the same as Puck [Ben Jonson,
Dn-tt it an An].
Pullet, Mrs. : Maggie Tulliver-s Invalid aunt ; a selfish
exacting woman [George Eliot, JU& on the
floss].
Pumblechook, Uncle : he toadies to wealthy people and
bullies theTpoor. He is a corn-chandler by trade and
uncle to Joe Gargery, the blacksmith [Dickens, Great
Expectation!}.
Pumpkin, Miss Bridget : sister to Sir Gilbert, who hates
the acting, but rather enjoys having to do with love-
making [Jackman, AU the World' t a Stage].
Sir Gilbert : a country gentleman who is guardian
to Kitty Sprightly. His whole household goes mad
about acting, and one of the guests, who come to act
runs away with Kitty.
Pure, Simon : a Quaker from Pennsylvania, who geta
cheated out of a wealthy bride by Colonel Peignwell,
who personates him before his arrival to England
[Mrs. Centlivre, Sold Stroke for a Wife].
Pycroft, Emanuel : a quick-witted and amusing petty
naval officer iK'iilinr, Their Lawful Occasions].
Pye, Susio : probably intended for the Saracen girl who
fell .n love witli Gilbert Beckett in the Holy Land,
and who followed him to London, just as Lord Beichan
PYG 235 QUE
Is supposed to stand for Gilbert Beckett himself
{Young Beichan, a ballad].
Pygmalion : the hero of a mythological comedy based on
the story of the Athenian sculptor, who prayed to the
gods that the statue he had made might really come
to life [Gilbert, Pygmalion and Galatea}.
Pjrke and Pluck : satellites of Sir Mulbery Hawk, who do
his bidding in all things [Dickens, Nicholat NiMcby}.
pyncheon, Clifford : the sometime handsome pleasure-
loving heir of the Pyncheons, sacrificed by his brutal
cousin, the judge, and wrongly sentenced for a crime
he did not commit.
Hej)zibah : the nervous, near-sighted old maid,
reduced in means and striving against heavy odds
to keep the old home going against the return of her
brother from prison.
Judge Jaffrey : a wealthy local magnate, who had
risen to distinction at the expense of his innocent
cousin Clifford.
Phoebe : a bright New England girl, who goes to
stay with Miss Hepzibah, and who falls in love with
and marries her lodger Holgrave [Nathaniel Haw
thorne, Houte of the Seven Ctablet].
Pyramus : the lover of Thisby who, upon a report of her
death, stabbed himself under a mulberry tree [Shake
speare, Midsummer Night't Dream}.
Pyrocles : one of the sons'of Aerates slain by Prince Arthur
[Spenser, Faery Queene].
Pythias : a Syracusan noted for his love for Damon. When
the latter was condemned to death Pythias offered
himself as a hostage whilst Damon went home to bid
farewell to wife and child. Damon returned in time.
The King of Syracuse was so struck by thdr friend
ship that he pardoned Damon [Edwards, Damon and
Pylhiat],
Quackleben, Dr. Quentin : a doctor and one of the board
of management at the spa [Scott, St. Konan't WM}.
Quaint, Timothy : ' an odd flsh that loves to swim in
troubled waters '. He is in the employ of Governor
HearUll [Cherry, Soldier't Daughter}.
Quale, Mr. : a friend of Mrs. Jellyby's. A loquacious
yonni? man, and a philanthroplst[Dickens,BieoA Souse].
Quarle, Philip : tee Hermit, The.
Quaver : a singing-master with a high opinion of the value
of his own profession [Fielding, Virgin Unmasked].
Qnedy, Mr. Mac : a Scotchman with an entirely unromanUo
and materialistic outlook [Peacock, Crotchet Cattle].
QUE 236 QUI
Qneen Labe : see Labe, Queen.
Scheherezade : ice Scheherezade, Qneen.
Quentin Durward : tee Durward, Quentin.
Quiara : the wife of Monnema. Upon the outbreak of an
epidemic of smallpox in Paraguay they migrated to
the Mondai woods, where two children were born to
them. The father was devoured by a jaguar and the
mother and children retreated to St Joachin, where
Quiara soon died [Southey, Tale of Paraguay}.
Quickly, Mistress Nell : hostess of the Soar's Head Tavern
in East Cheap, frequented by Falstaft and his boon
companions [Shakespeare, Henry IV and Henry V}.
Mistress : Dr. Caius's factotum and the go-between
of Anne Page and her suitow [Shakespeare, Merry
Wives of Windsor].
Quicksilver : an idle apprentice [Chapman, Marston and
Jonson, Eastward Hoe I]
=Lord Brougham, a caricature [Warren, Ten Thou
sand a Tear}.
Quidascarpl, Angelo & Kinaldo : two Italians of high birth
who join in the revolution [George Meredith, Vittoria}.
Quidnunc, Abraham : a troublesome, interfering busybody.
Harriet : his daughter, rescued from a burning
house by Belmour.
John : marries a rich widow under the assumed
name of Bovewell, returns to England, pays his father's
creditors and arranges his sister's marriage with Bel
mour [Murphy, Upholsterer].
Quidnonkis : a monkey that serves to point a moral in
a fable. It climbs higher than its fellows, but falls
into a river and is lost [Gay, Quidnttnkis].
Quilliam, Peter [Pete] : the natural son of Peter Christian.
He is the friend of Philip and the husband of Katherine
Cregeen. The hero of the story [Hall Caine,3/a.ix»nan].
Qailp. Betsey : the wife of Daniel Quilp, ' a pretty little
mild-spoken, blue-eyed woman ', who having married a
sort of fiend did ' sound practical penance for her
lolly, every day of her life '.
Daniel : a hideous dwarf, full of a fiendish ad
mixture of ferocity and cunning, without one re
deeming trait [Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop}.
Quince, Peter : a carpenter who takes the lead in arranging
the play to be performed before Theseus and Hippolyta
[Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream}.
Quisara : the heroine of the play [J. Fletcher, Island
Princess}.
Quitam, Mr. : the lawyer at the inn at Darlington [Scott,
Rob Roy}.
QUI 237 RAD
Quiverful, Mr. : the father of fourteen children. Rector of
Puddingdale [Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers].
Quodling, The Rev. Mr. : chaplain to the Duke of Buck
ingham [Scott, Peveril of the Peak].
Quomodo : a draper and usurer whose ambition it is to
become a land-owner [Middleton, Micharlmat Term].
Quontem, Caleb : a parish clerk and Jack-of-all-tradea
[Colman the Younger, The Review ; or, *Wag» of
Windtor].
Bab : a mastiff, ' as mighty to his own line as Julius Caesar
or the Duke of Wellington ' [Dr. J. Brown, Rob and
hit friendt].
Eabisson : a tinker and knife-grinder who was in the
secret of the gold mine owned by the ' Miller of Grenoble
[Stirling, Gold Mine; or, Miller of Grenoble].
Rabsneka : intended for Sir Thomas Player [Dryden and
Tate, Absalom and, Achitophel, pt. ii.].
Baby, Aurora : a rich young girl, an orphan and a Roman
Catholic, visiting at Lady Amundville's at the same
time as Don Juan [Byron, Don Juan].
Rachel : a mill-hand in love with Stephen Blackpool
[Dickens, Hard Time*].
Backet, Lady : the daughter of Mr. Drugget, a wealthy
London merchant [JIurphy, Three Weekt after Marriage],
- Sir Charlet : quarrels with his young wife over a
game of whist and threatens her with a divorce, but
thinks better of it afterwards.
Widow : a coquette, a wit, and a flne lady [Mrs.
Cowley, Selle-i Stratagem].
Backrent, Sir Condy : a heedless, good-natured, impecu
nious Irish landowner, who wastes all the little sub
stance he ever possessed, and is deserted by a wife
who had only married him upon a mistaken idea of
his position [Maria Edgeworth, Cattle Rackrent].
Raddle, Mrs. Mary Ann : Mr. Bob Sawyer's shrewish
landlady [Dickens, Pickwick Papert].
Badigond : Queen of the Amazons [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Badirobanes : intended for Philip II of Spain [Barclay,
Argenit].
Radnor, Nataly : her irregular marriage with Victor
Radnor tinges her whole life with tragedy. She dies
suddenly of heart-disease.
Netta Victoria : the daughter of Victor and Nataly,
who marries Dartrey Fenellan.
- Victor : a wealthy city merchant who is con
stantly thwarted by the one false step of his life. Hia
end is tragic [George Meredith, One of our Conqutrort].
RAK 238 RAN
Bake, Lord : a gentleman of the type that is fond of drink
ing, rioting and general ' about town ' dissipation, the
friend of Sir John Brute and Colonel Bully [Vanbrugh,
Provoked Wife].
Rakeland, Lord: a libertine [Mrs. Inchbald, Wedding
JD<ty}.
Ralph: an Ignorant bumpkin, jealous of the superior
education of his own sister [Bickerstaff, Maid of the
IdtU].
—— Alderman : the leading character in the story
[Thomas Cooper, Alderman Ralph],
Rough : assistant park-keeper to Sir Geoffrey
Teveril [Scott, PeverU of the Peak].
or Ralpho : squire to Hudibras, and his com
panion on his adventures [Butler, Hudibrcu}.
Roister Bolster : a hare-brained noisy fellow, who
runs fruitlessly after a rich widow of the name of
Custance [Udall, Ralph Roister Doister].
Ramble, Lady : wife of Sir Robert, who was the ward of
Lord Norland.
Sir Robert : a loose liver who so neglects his wife
that the leaves him and returns to her old home and
resumes her maiden name [Mrs. Inchbald, Every one
Hat Hit fault].
Rambone, Parson Jack : a sporting parson who ' held
the belt ' for seven years ' for wrestling and boxing '
[Blackmore, Maid of Sker].
Ramirez : a monk, father-confessor to the Duke of
Braganza who plots to poison the duke [Jcphson,
Braganza],
Ramiro, King : his wife Aldonza eloped with the King of
Gaya. By great ingenuity Ramiro compassed the
death of his enemy and his faithless spouse [Southey,
Ramiro, a ballad from the Portuguese.]
Ramorny, Sir John : master of the horse to Prince Robert
of Scotland [Scott, Fair Maid of Perth].
Ramsay, Adam : uncle of Mrs. St. Clair, a man of up
right character, shrewd, affectionate, but irascible,
the past and constant lover of Lizzie Lundie. He
leaves his wealth to her daughter, Gertrude, when
she is discarded by the Rossville family [Susan E.
Ferrier, Inheritance].
Ramsay, David : a watch-maker near Temple Bar.
Margaret : his daughter, who becomes the wife
of Lord Nigel [Scott, Fortune* of Nigel].
Randolph, Lady : wife of Lord Randolph, and the mother
of Norval by a previous marriage.
Lord : the nobleman who slew Norval in a fit of
RAN 239 RAY
jealousy, believing him to be on too Intimate terms
with Lady Randolph [Home, Douglas}.
Random : a rich, but puffy, gouty old man with a scape
grace son, for whose debts the poor old chap is arrested
[Colman the Younger, Wayi and Means].
Roderick: a Scottish adventurer. Heartless, mean
unscrupulous and sensual [Smollett, Roderick Random]
Ringer : one of the characters in a comedy [Wycherlcy,
Love in a Wood].
the hero, a cousin of Clarinda's [Hoadly, Suspicion*
Buiband].
Raphael : an angel that plays a conspicuous part in the
epic [Mnton, Paradise Lost].
Rasni : the King of Nineveh, an ' imperial swaggerer ' who
marries his own sister [Lodge and Greene, Looking-
ylats lor London and England].
Rasselas : Prince of Abyssinia, who sallies forth in search
of an earthly paradise but concludes that there is no
lot in life free from trials [Dr. Johnson, Raisdas}.
Rat. Doctor : the curate [attrib. John Still, Gammer
Owrion't Needle].
Ratcliffe Mr. Hubert : a friend of Sir Edward Manley,
the ' Black Dwarf ' [Scott, Black Dwarf].
Ratcliffe, Charles : a clerk who rescues an old Jew from
a London mob, and is left heir to his wealth.
— — Eliza : his sister, who had every virtue and was
secretly married to the son of her brother's old master,
Sir Stephen Bertram [Cumberland, The Jew].
Rathmor : the father of Calthon and Colmal, and chief
of Clutha [Ossian, Calthon and Colmal].
Rattlin, Jack : a sailor [Smollett, Roderick Random}.
the Reefer : the hero of a book at one time wrongly
attributed to Marryat [Edward Howard, Rattlin the
Reefer}.
Rattray, Sir Runnion : the friend of Sir Mungo Mala-
growther [Scott, Fortunes of Nigel].
Rayenshoe, Charles : a high-spirited boy with generous
instincts, who, after many tribulations comes into his
own [Henry Kingsley, RavenshoA-
Ravenswood, Allan, Lord of : a poor adherent of the Stuart
family.
Master Edgar : son of Allan and hero of the story,
who, betrothed to Lucy Ashton, sees her married to
another [Scott, Bride of Lammermoor].
Rayiand, Mrs. : the mistress of the ' Old Manor House,
[Mrs. Charlotte Smith, Old Manor tioute].
Raymond, Colonel : son of Sir Charles, who loves his
neighbour's daughter, Rosetta Behnont.
RAY 240 REI
Raymond,H arriet :only daughter of Sir Charles, put out to
nurse with a woman who sold her at the age of twelve
to a man named Viilard, who ill-treated her. Her
cries of distress were heard by young Belmont, who
rescued and married her.
Sir Charles : a comely gentleman [Edward Moore,
The Foundling}.
Razor : a barber, and the friend of Quidnunc. Together
they took a melancholy view of the state and prospects
of ' poor old England ' [Murphy, Upholsterer].
Eeady-to-Halt : a member of Mr. Greatheart's party on
the way to the Celestial City. He had to struggle
along on crutches [Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress}.
Rebecca : the beautiful daughter of Isaac of York [Scott.
Ivanhoe}.
Rebecca and Rowena : the characters in a satirical romance
based onScott's/t>anAoe[Thackeray,.Reieeca and Rowena],
Red-Cap, Mother : an old nurse [Scott, Fortunes of Kig<t}.
Red-Crou Knight=»3t George, who in defence of Truth
[Una], slays the dragon [Spenser, Faery Quecne].
Redburn, Jack : ' no man ever lived who could do so many
things as Jack ', who was the friend of Master Hum
phrey and of Mr. Miles [Dickens, Master Sutnphrcy'i
Clock].
Redgauntlet, Sir Edward Hugh : the originater of a con
spiracy to bring back the ' Young Pretender '. On
the failure of the plot Redgauntlet withdraws to the
continent and becomes prior of a monastery [Scott,
Jtalgaunilet].
Redgill, Dr. : a vulgar, selfish gourmand, and hanger-on of
Lord CourUand [Susan E. Ferrier, Marriage}.
Redlaw.Mr. : a learned but sorrowful man who in struggling
to obliterate the memory of his own sufferings loses, for a
time, the power of sympathy for others [Dickens,
Haunted Man}.
Redmond, O'Neale : the hero's page [Scott, Rokeby].
Redworth, Thomas : a strong, capable man, who makes
a fortune in railways and eventually marries Diana
Warwick [George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways].
Reece, Captain, R.N. : commander of the Mantelpiece who
ministered to the creature comforts of all his crew
[Gilbert, Bait Ballads : Captain Reece, R.N.I.
Regan : one of the two fiendish daughters of King Lear
[Shakespeare, King Lear],
Reginald Dalton : see Dalton, Reginald.
Re is, Ada : the heroine of the story who ' is condemned
for various misdeeds, to eternal punishment ' [Lady
Caroline Lamb, Ada Beit].
REL 241 RIG
ReldresaJ : principal secretary for Private affairs iu the
Court of Lilliput [Swift, Gulliver's Travels].
Rwnus, Uncle : an old negro fond of recounting all sort*
of folk-stories and sougs popular amongst his own
people, dealing for the most part with animals, ' Brer
Babbit ', 'Brer Fox', etc. [Harris. Uncl«
Remus].
Renault : one of the conspirators against the Venetian
senators. He attempted the honour of Belvidera
[Otway, Venice Preserved].
Rene. King : of Provence, father of the Queen of Henry
VI of England [Scott, Anne of Griersuin}.
Rentowel, Mr. Jabesh : a Covenanter and a preacher
[Scott, Waverley}.
Restless, Sir John and Lady : a si'Jy couple who are always
suspecting one another of infidelity, neither having
the remotest grounds for their suspicions [Murphy,
All in the Wrong}.
Renllura : wife of Aodh, a preacher of the gospel In lona
[Campbell, RnMura],
Rauthamir : the leading man In the town of Balclutha,
whose daughter, Moina, was married to Clessammor,
Fingal's uncle [Ossian, Carthon}.
Reveller, Lady : a lady devoted to cards, but who glvee
them up for the sake of Lord Worthy [Mrs. Centlivre
Basset Table}.
Rewcastle, Old John : a smuggler, and a Jacobite [Scott,
Slack Dwarf}.
Rhadamanth : a justice of the peace [Somerville, Hob-
binol}.
Rhodalind : the daughter of Aribert, King of Lombardy,
she loved Gondibert, who did not return her love
[Davenant, Gondibert}.
Rhongomyant : King Arthur's lance [Malinogion}.
Riah, Mr. : a generous and noble old Jew who befriends
Lizzie Hexam [Dickens, Our Mutual Frund}.
Ribemont : a brave and noble French soldier [Shirley,
Edward the Black Prince}.
Count : a character in the play [Colman the
Younger, The Surrender of Calais}.
Ribley, Mr. and Mrs. : the wealthy but unrefined English
relatives of Edith Malcolm, with whom she lives for a
time, whilst her own fortunes are under a cloud [Susan
B. Ferrier, Destiny}.
Riccabocca, Dr. : ' a soft-hearted cynic, a simple sage
whom we recognize chiefly by his pipe, his red um
brella and his Machiavellian proverbs ' [Lyttcn, lit
Xovd}.
W.W.F. B
RIG 242 RSS
Bicharf : a smith. On New year's Day he marries Meg
Veck [Dickens, Chime*}.
ol Almaigne : the hero of a satirical ballad of the
thirteenth century [Harleian MSS. Brtt. Museum, 2253,
«. 23].
-1 Squire : an ignorant country lout the son of Sir
Francis Wronghead of Bumper Hall [Vanbrugh and
Gibber, Provoked Hutbnnd}.
Richelieu, Armand : cardinal and chief minister of France
[Lytton, Richelieu}.
Richland, Miss : marries Mr. Honeywood, the ' good-
natured man ' [Goldsmith, Gocd-Satwtd Man].
Richmond Hill, Lass ol: Miss I'Anson of Hill HOJSP,
Richmond, Yorkshire [McNally, La** o) Richmond
Bill}.
- Harry : the son of Richmond Roy and of a daugh
ter of Squire Beltham. His extraordinary adven
tures bring out the chivalry of his character [George
Meredith, Adventure* ol Harry Richmond}.
Ridd, John : a Devonian, built in colossal mould and of
enormous strength. He is the hero of the tale [Black-
more, Lorna Doone].
Riderhood, Pleasant : the daughter of Roger, who marries
Mr. Venus [Dickens, Our Mutual friend].
1 Roger : known as ' Rogue KMerbood '. A desper
ate villain who meets his death in a hand-to-hand
struggle with Bradley Headstone [Dickens, Our Mutual
Friend],
Riel, Herv6 : a Breton pilot, who saved a French fleet
[R. Browning, Rent Rid}.
Rienzi : the subject of a tragedy [Mary R. Mitfoni,
Maul].
Coladi : the hero of the novel [Lytton, Reinzi].
Rigaud, lions. : imprisoned for the murder of his wife
[Dickens, Little Dorrit}.
Rigby, The Right Hon. Nicholas: 'a fawning, plotting,
insolent man of dirty work ' [BeacoiisfieH, Coningsby}.
Rigdum Fnnnidos : a character in the burlesque, and the
nickname which Scott gave his friend, John Ballantyne
[Carey, Chrononhotonlhologo$].
Ringwood : a young Templar [Scott, Fortunes of Nigel].
The Earl of : a cynical nobleman [Thackeray,
Adventure* of Philip].
Rip Van Winkle : a Dutchman who lived in America and
who fell asleep among the Kaatskiil mountains and
did not wake for twenty years. The story is based on
an old German legend [Irving, Rip Van Winkle].
Risingham, Bertram : egged on by Oswald Wycliffe he
RI3 243 ROB
endeavours to shoot Philip of Morthain at Marston
Moor [Scott, Rokeby].
Risk : a favourite part with Charles Matthews [Colman the
Younger, Love Laughs at Locksmiths].
Rivella : the heroine of an autobiographical novel [Mrs.
Manley, Adventures of Rirella].
Rizzo, Barto : a fanatical Italian schemer against the
Austriaus, who doubts Vittoria's loyalty to the cause
and frustrates her with all his power [George Mere
dith, Vittoria}.
Roan Barbary : Richard II's favourite charger [Shake
speare, Richard II].
Rob Roy, Mac Gregor= Robert Campbell, the outlaw, a
Highland freebooter [Scott, Rob Roy}.
Robarts, Lacy : sister of the vicar of Framley, who marries
Lord Lufton.
tlte Her. Mr. : vicar of Framley ; a weak but
naturally honest man, who runs into debt [Anthony
Trollope, Framlry Parsonage}.
Robert : condemned for a murder he did not commit. an<l
saved by his daughter pledging her hand to Black
Norris, the real culprit [Knowles, The Daughter].
- Earl of Huntingdon : the hero of this drama is
Robin Hood [Earl of Huntington], though he dies in
the first act. His widow, Matilda, daughter of Lord
Fitzwaltcr is wooed by King John [Munday, Doicnjall
of Robert, Earl of Huntinnton].
oj Cysille [Sicily] : the hero of an old English
romance, in verse.
ol Paris, Count : a crusading prince who fights in
single combat with Hereward [Scott, Count Robert
of Paris}.
ol Sicily : punished for his pride by temporary
loss of reason [Longfellow, Tales oj a Wayside Inn}.
Robespierre : the subject of an historical drama [8. T.
Coleridge, Fall of Robespierre].
Robin : confidential servant of Rovewell [Carey, Con
trivances].
loses his property and emigrates, to return again
after only three years [Hoare, A'o Song no Supper}.
a young gardener, a great frequenter of play houses
[Charles Dibdin, Waterman].
and Makyne : ' an ancient Scottish pastoral ',
Makyue loves Robin, and he scorns her, only in the
end to fall at her feet.
Goodlellow : see Goodfellow, Robin.
Gray : set Gray, Auld Robin.
Hood : i»e Hood, Robin.
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Robinson Crusoe : tee Crusoe, Robinson.
Robsart, Amy : betrothed to Edmund Tressilian, but
secretly married to Robert, Earl of Leicester, and put
to death by his orders [Scott, Kenilworfh}.
Robson, Sylvia : tee Sylvia.
Rochdale, Frank : son of Sir Simon who has betrayed a
village girl and who, in opposition to his father,
-marries her.
Sir Simon : a justice of the peace [Colman the
Younger, John Bull].
Rochester. Mr. Edward Fairfax : the hero, with a maniac
for wife. After her death he marries Jane Eyre
[Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre].
Rock. Dr. Richard : a famous quack, called by his rival,
Dr. Franks, * Dumplin' Dick ' [Goldsmith, Citizen of
the World}.
Roderick Dhn : a Highland chieftain and freebooter
[Scott, Lady of the Lake}.
Kiag : the hero of this play was thirty-fourth in
succession on the Spanish throne. He was slain
A.D. 711 [Southey, Roderick}.
Roderigo : in love with Desdemona and therefore un
friendly towards Othello, and a ready tool in the hands
of lago [Shakespeare, Othello}.
a ruffian who reforms [Middleton, Spanish Gipsy].
Rodhaver : beloved by a Persian named Zal, who climbed
to her chamber by the aid of a crook [Champion,
Ferdoti}.
Rodmond : chief mate of the Britannia, which struck on
Cape Colonna, when Rodmond was drowned [Fal
coner, Shipwreck}.
Rodogune. King : ' wieked, with a soul that would have
been heroic if it had been virtuous ' [Rowe, Royal
Gvnverl}.
RodriKO : captain of a company of outlaws, and the rlva
of Pedro [J. Fletcher, The Pilgrim}.
Roger : the name of the cook who could ' roste, sethe,
broille, and frie, make mortreux, and wel bake a pye '
and wbo tells one of the * Tales ' [Chaucer, Canterbury
Talrx . Cook's Talc}.
Sir : a curate [Beaumont and Fletcher, Scornful
TMdy}.
de Coverley : tee Coverley, Roger de.
Rogero : a Sicilian gentleman [Shakespeare, Winter" t
Tale}.
a character In a play which was written to scoSt
at the sentimentalism of German plays [Canning,
Kovert].
ROI 245 R08
RoUter Doister, Ralph : tee Ralph Roister Doiater.
Rokesmith, John : tee Harmon, John.
Roland : the hero of a poem in Anglo Norman, written by
an English minstrel in the twelfth century [Turold,
Chanson de Roland].
• and Farragus : characters in an old English
romance which relates to Charlemagne [Early Eng.
Romances, Roland and Farragus}.
" de Vanz, Sir : the Baron of Triennain who rouses
Oyneth from her sleep of 500 years' duration [Scott,
Bridal of Triermain}.
Rolando, Signer : a woman-hater vowed to celibacy,
who fell in love with Zamora and married her, excus
ing himself on the ground that she was not a woman
' but an angel ' [Tobin, Honeymoon}.
Holla : ' in war a tiger chafed by the hunter's spears ; in
peace more gentle than, the unweaued lamb '. H«
was kinsman to Ataliba [Knowles, Pizarro}.
Hollo : Duke of Normandy, the ' bloody brother *
[J. Fletcher, Bloody brother].
Romano : the monk that sheltered Roderick after his
overthrow [Southey, Roderick],
Romeo : the son of Montague ; he loved Juliet, of the
House of Capulet, his hereditary foes ; they were
going to marry secretly, but a series of misadventures
ended in their both dying on what should have been
their wedding day [Shakespeare, Romeo and
Juliet}.
Romfrey, Everard : the uncle of Nevil Beauchamp. Later
on succeeds to the title of Earl of Eomfrey. Under
the mistaken idea that Dr. Shrapnel has insulted
Mrs. Cullin he horsewhips him. This results in a
furious quarrel between him and Nevil Beauchamp.
Eventually he apologizes to Dr. Shrapnel [George
Meredith, Beaueliamp'i Career}.
Romola : a youthful Florentine, who loved and married
Tito Malema, a subtle and insincere Greek [George
Eliot, Romola].
Ron : Kin? Arthur's ebony spear [Drayton, Polyoloion}.
Ronald, Lord : the lover of Lady Clare who remained true
to her even when he discovered she was ' nut the
heiress born ' [Alfred Tennyson, Lady Clare}.
Rory O'More : tee O'More, Rory.
Rosa : Lady Dedlock's maid ; a shy village beauty en
gaged to Walt Rooncewell [Dickens, Bleak Haute].
* Rosalynd, and Rosmary : the heroines of a romance
of the very early seventeenth century [Newton, Rota,
Rotalynd, and Rotmary],
ROS 243 R08
Rosabelle : Lady Oeraldine's maid [Dimond, Foundling
of the Forest}.
the subject of a ballad [Scott, RosabrUe}.
Rosader : the original of Orlando in At You Like It
[Lodge, Rosalynde].
Rosalind : the witty daughter of the banished duke. She
falls in love with and marries Orlando [Shakespeare,
At You Like If].
the subject of ' a modern eclogue ' [Shelley, Rota-
lint and Helm}.
the shepherdess who rejected Colin Clout in favour
of Menalcas [Spenser, Shephcardes Calendar}.
Rosaline : ' two pitch balls were stuck in her face for
eyes '. She was in attendance on the Princess of
France [Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost}.
Juliet's cousin with whom Borneo fancied himself
in love before he saw Juliet [Shakespeare, Romeo and
Julift}.
Rosalynde : the heroine of a romance and the prototype
of Shakespeare's Rosalind [Lodge, EupTiue*' Golden
Legacy}.
Rosalura : daughter of Nantolet, whom Belleur loved
[J. Fletcher, Wild-goose Chast}.
Rosamond : the subject of a poetical drama [Swinburne,
Rosamond}.
Fair : a ballad which tells the story of Jane Clifford,
the mistress of Henry II, known to history as ' Fair
Rosamond '.
Roscrana : daughter of Cormac, King of Ireland ; she
married Fingal and was the mother of Ossian [Ossian,
Temara}.
Rose : ' the gardener's daughter ' [Alfred Tennyson,
Gardener's Daughter}.
Blanche and Violet : characters in a novel [George
H. Lewes, Rose, Blnnrhe, and Violet].
Rosencrantz : a courtier of despicable character [Shake
speare, Hamlet}.
Rosetta : a young girl, who flies from home to escape a
distasteful marriage and takes service at Justice
Woodcock's. Here the young man comes, as gardener,
he having fled from an uncoveted bride. Thus they
meet after all and fall in love with one another [Bicker-
staff, Love in a Village].
Rosiclear : tee Donzel del Phebo.
Rosiphele : a princess of Armenia, of resplendent beauty
but lacking heart, who Is worked upon by Cupid
[Gower, Confessta Amantis].
Rosny, Sabina : a beautiful and virtuous girl, both of
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whose parents are dead, and who meets and marries
Lord Sensitive [Cumberland, Firtt Love}.
Bossville, Earl ol : the pompous, conceited, dull, and
narrow-minded holder of the estates, to which Ger
trude was supposed to be the next in succession [Susan
E. Ferrier, Inheritance}.
Bothmar : the chief of Troiulo, who invaded Croma vic
toriously until Ossian went to the assistance of the
blind King of Crothar and defeated the invaders
[Ossian, Croma}.
Boubigne, Julia de : the heroine of the novel [Mackenzie,
Julie de Roublme}.
Rongedragon, Lady Rachel : the sometime guardian o
Liliaa Redgauntlet [Scott, Rcdgauntlcl}.
Eooncewell, Mrs. : Lord and Lady Dedlock's housekeeper
[Dickens, Bleak Uoute}.
Eovewell, Captain : in love with Arethusa, whom ho
marries, contrary to her father's wishes [Carey, Con
trivances}.
Eowena : the Saxon heroine, the ward of Cedric ; she
marries Wilfred of Ivanhoe [Scott, Ivanhoe}.
Eowland, Childe : the brother of Helen, who, under the
guidance of Merlin fetches her back from elf-land
[Ancient Scottish Ballad}.
Mr. : Mr. Grey's partner, afflicted with a mta-
chief-making, untruthful wife, whose unneighbourly
acts he tries to counteract [Harriet Marlincau,
Deerbrook}.
Rowley, Master : the past steward of old Mr. Surface and
the friend of Charles [Sheridan, School tor Scandal}.
Eozana : in love with Alexander, and therefore jealous
of Statira, his wife, whom she slew [Lee, Alexander the
Or eat ; or, Rival Queen*}.
Boy, Richmond : father of Harry Richmond. He claims
to be the legitimate son of a royal prince. Half-
sincere and half-mountebank. He secretly married
one of Squire Beltham's daughters, though loving
the other [George Meredith, Adventure* of Harry
Richmond].
Bubi : one of the spirits of wisdom who dwelt with Eve
In Paradise [Edward Moore, Love* of the
Anycls}.
Bnbonax : the man who hanged hlmgcll becmse ot some
verses written at his expense [Sidney, Defence of
Porsie}.
Ruby. Lady : a young widow, who upon the death of her
husband marries her ' first love ' [Cumberland. First
Love}.
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Bnddymane : the infant son of Sir Mordant [Spenser,
faery Queene].
Budgo, Mr. : the steward and murderer of Reuben Hare-
dale ; he levied a sort of blackmail upon his wife, and
visited her secretly when in want of money.
Mr». : mother of Bamaby, and cognisant of her
husband's guilt [Dickens, Bamaby Rudge].
Barndby : the half-witted son of Reuben Haredak's
murderer [Dickens, Barnaby Rudge].
Ettdiger, Clotilda von : a German girl of good family, with
an original mind. She is carried away by the hurri
cane wooing of Alvan, but fails him in the end [George
Meredith, Tragic Comedian*].
Eudiger : the hero of a ballad. He appeared in a swan-
drawn boat to Margaret, who fell in love with, and
married him. A baby was born to them, and then one
day the swan and boat reappeared 'and Rudiger was
carried off in the arms of a giant [Southey, Rudiger].
Bugg, Mr. : a lawyer living at Pentonville, and who re
velled in legal difficulties [Dickens, Little Dorrit].
Enna : the dog belonging to the sons of the King of Inis-
Thorn [Ossian, War of Ittit-TAorn].
Enpert, Sir : the lover of Catherine [Knowles, Love].
Rush, Friar : an evil spirit sent to keep the monks and
friars in a state of wickedness. This sort of demon
was believed in in the seventeenth century.
Bnshworth, Mr. : a wealthy fool, who marries Miss Bertram
and is deserted by her.
Mrt. : the wife of Mr. Rush worth who elopes with
Henry Crawford [Jane Austen, Mansfield Park].
Busilla : the mother of Roderick and wife of the rightful
heir to the Spanish throne, Theodofred [Southey,
Roderick].
Ensport, Charlotte : in love with Charles Dudley, whom
she marries.
— — — Lady : Sir Stephen's second wife and step -mother
to Charlotte. A vain, mean, and unprincipled woman
[Cumberland, West Indian].
Russet, Harriot : she loved Mr. Oakly and married him
but grew jealous, though needlesslv so, and only for a
time [Cohnan the Elder, Jealous Wife].
Bust, Martin : an old antiquary, who preferred antique
coins to youthful beauty, and resigned the girl he wag
to have married to another whom she preferred [Foote,
The Patron].
Buatam : son of Zal, King of India. The chief of th«
mythical heroes of Persia [Chardin, Travels].
on of Tamur, King of Persia, who had a trial of
RUS 249 SAG
strength with Rustam, son of Zal— a kind of ' tug of
war', in which neither gained any advantage over
the other [Chardin, Travel*].
Rostum and Sohrab : two heroes who fight, aa the chosen
representatives of opposing forces. Rustum conquers,
only to find he has slain his own son [Matthew Arnold,
Ruttum and Sohrab}.
Ruth : the heroine of a lyric [Thomas Hood, Ruth].
the orphan daughter of Sir Basil Thoroughgood
and ward of Justice Day [Knight, Honest Thieve*}.
the heroine of two poems [W. Wordsworth, Kvth ;
also, Sir W. Stirling Maxwell, Ruth].
Bnthven, Lord : one of Queen Elizabeth's ambassadors to
Mary Queen of Scots [Scott, The Abbot].
Ryenoe, Sir : King of Wales, Ireland, etc., who sent an
insulting challenge to King Arthur when King Arthur
first mounted the throne. The haughty king was soon
reduced to begging mercy of Arthur [Mallory, History
of Prince Arthur}.
Rython : one of the giants whom King Arthur slew. He
came from Brittany [Arthurian Cyde].
Sabrin, Sabre, or Sabrina : the daughter of Locrine and
Eatrildis by a guilty love. When his queen, Guen-
dolen, knew of their connexion she caused Estrildis
and the child to be thrown into the river, which since
then has been called the Severn [Geoffrey, Sritith
Hittory}.
Sabrina : the nymph of the Severn, is petitioned to release
the lady from the spell cast over her by Comus [Milton,
Comus].
8acharissa=Lady Dorothea Sidney, eldest daughter of the
Earl of Leicester, the lady whom the poet, Edmund
Waller, loved and courted.
Sadak : a general in the Sultan of Turkey's army, who
lived so happily with his wife, Kalasrade, that the
Sultan Ammath waa envious and had her kidnapped
and placed hi his seraglio. Ammath was poisoned and
Sadak became sultan in his place [Ridley, Tale* of the
Genii].
Saddletree, Mr. Bartoline : ' the learned saddler ' [Scott,
Heart of Midlothian].
Sagan of Jerusalem : intended for Oompton, Bishop of
London [Diyclen, Abtalom and Achitophel}.
Sago, Mr. and Mrs. : a chemist and his wife. She Is fond
of cards, aims at a superior social standing and carrier
on an iutrigue with Sir James Courtly [Mrs. Centlivre
Baiset Tablt],
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Sagramour le Desirus : a knight of the Round Table
[Launcdot du L<ic and Morte <T Arthur; Tennysoa,
Idylls of the Kiny : Merlin and Vivian].
St. Alme, Captain : son of Darlemont the guardian of the
Count of Harancourt, a deaf and dumb boy [Holcroft,
Deal and Dumb}.
St. Cecilia : the patron saint of music [Dryden, Ode to St.
Cecilia's Day].
St. Clair, Gertrude : the reputed daughter of Thomas St.
Clair ; really a changeling of obscure birth. She is
the heroine of the story and marries the hero, Edward
Lyndsay.
Son. Thomas : brother to the Earl of RossvRle,
and reputed father of Gertrude.
Mrs. : supposed mother of Gertrude the heroine. A
scheming, unprincipled and vain, but beautiful woman
[Susan E. Ferrier Inheritance].
Angustin : a kind hearted slave-owner, beloved
by his slaves.
Evangeline : his daughter, loved by all the slaves,
adored by Uncle Tom.
Ophelia : a New England Puritan, Mr. Augustin,
St. Clare's cousin [Harriet Beecher Stowe, Undt
Tom's Cabin].
St. Evremonde, Charles : tee Darnay, Charles.
St. Irvyne : a novel of which Megalena di Metastasio is the
heroine. The author was in his sixteenth year when he
wrote it [Shelley, St. Irvyne}.
St. John : a clergyman who loves Jane Eyre, but whose
offer of marriage she declines [Charlotte Bronte, Jane
Eyre}.
St. Leon : the hero, who knows the secret of the philoso
pher's stone, and also of the elixir vitae. The story
gains additional interest from the likeness of the heroine
Marguerite, having been drawn from Mary Woll-
stonecraft [Godwin, St. Leon].
St. Senanus : tee Senanus, St.
Saladin : the sultan who, disguised as a doctor, visited
Richard Coeur de Lion [Scott, Talisman}.
Salathiel : the wandering Jew [Croly, Immortal Sola-
thicl}.
Saldar, Countess de : the scheming sister of Evan Harring
ton, who has married a Portuguese count. She forcei
her way Into society, bringing with her various mem
bers of her own family [Meredith, Evan Harrington}.
Saleh : the brother of Gulnare the Empress of Persia, and
the son of Farasche, who ruled over a kingdom under
the sea [Arabian Sights}.
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Sally : the heroine of one of the most popular of English
balUds [Carey, Sally in our Allry].
Salterne, Rose : left to her fate by a jealous husband, Don
Guzman, and burnt by the Spanish Inquisition aa a
heretic and witch [Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!].
Saltire, Lord : a nobleman who concealed great warmth
of feeling, and a lastiag sorrow, under a cynical and
worldly manner [Henry Kiugsley, Raventhoe].
Salvage Knight : tee Artegal.
Sam, Brother : the brother of Lord Dundreary. This play
is a kind of sequel to ' Our American Cousin ' [Oxenford,
altered by Sothern and Buckstone, Brother Sam}.
Slick : tee Slick, Sam.
Weller : tee Weller, Sam.
Samflt, Mrs. : the cook to the Fleming household, ' very
fat and loving . . . whose waist was dimly indicated
by her apron strings '. A kind-hearted woman
[George Meredith, Ithoda Fleming}.
Samiasa : a seraph who loved Aholibamah, grand-daughter
of Cain, and who bore her away to another planet at
the time of the Flood [Byron, Heaven and Earth].
Samient : Queen Mercilla's ambassadress to Queen Aldicia
who received her with many indignities until Su
Artegal came to her rescue [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Sampson : one of Capulets' servants [Shakespeare, Borneo
and Juliet],
Dominie Abel : an honest, ungainly schoolmaster
much beloved by his pupils at Ellangowan House
[Scott, Ouy Mannering].
— — — George : an admirer of Bella Wilfer, who however
transfers his affections to her sister, Lavinia, when
Bella marries John Harmon [Dickens, Our Mutual
Friend].
Parson : the dissipated, wine-bibbing private
chaplain of Lord Castlewood [Thackeray, Etmond
and Virginians].
Samson Agonistes=' Samson the Wrestler ', the blind hero
of the poem [Milton, Samson Agonistes].
Sancho, Don : a foolish old fop, the uncle of Victoria, who
wears a light wig to conceal his grey hairs and simulates
toothache to convince people his teeth are not false
[Mrs. Cowley, Bold Stroke for a Husband].
Sandford, Harry : the companion and friend of Tommy
Mertou [Day, Sandford and Merlon].
Sanglamore : Braggadochio's sword [Spenser, Fa*m
Qiieene].
Sanglier, Sir Shan : intended for Shan O'Neil, leader of the
Irish insurgents in 1567 [Spenser, Faery Queene],
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Bansfoy=Unbellef, a faithless Saracen, the first enemy
with whom the Red Cross Knight had an encounter
after parting from Una [Truth] [Spenser, Faery Quecne}.
— Brian : tee Clyomon and Clamydes.
gaasjoy=Jo}-lessnes3, the brother of Sansfoy. He also
fought with the Red Cross Knight, but just as he wag
about to be overthrown he was rescued and carried
off to the infernal regions [Spenser, Fairy Qveene].
§ansloy=Superstition, brother of Sansfoy and Sansjoy.
He carried off Una to a wilderness, and then fled,
and left her alone, when fauns and satyrs approached
[Spenser, Faery Queene].
jpho : inter
Sappho : intended for Lady Worthy Montague [Pope,
Moral E**ay», Ep. lii.].
Sapsea. Mr. Thomas : an auctioneer who came to be Mayor
of Olofeterham [Dickens, Edwin Drood].
Sapskull : a silly raw Yorkshire lad, the son of a country
squire, befooled out of his intended bride by the trick*
of Gaylove and Muchwonn [Carey, Honest York'
ihireman].
Saracinesca : a proud Roman of the old school [Marion
Crawford, Saracinesca}.
Sarchedon : hero of the novel [Melville, Sarrhedon].
Sardanapalus : the voluptuous King of Nineveh [Byron,
Sardanapalus ] .
Satyrane. Sir : the knight who protected Una when Sansloy
left her at the mercy of the fauns and satyrs [Spenser,
Faery Queene].
Saul : intended for Oliver Cromwell [Dryden, Abialom and
Achitophtl].
Sannders, Clerk : the hero of a popular Scottish ballad ;
he was killed in hia sweetheart's arms and appeared
before her afterwards in ghostly shape [Border Min
strelsy, Clerk Saundert}.
Sayage, Captain : a naval commander [Marryat, Peter
Simple].
Harry : the kidnapped grandson of Sir Phiilp
Rampfylde [Blackmore, Maid of SJcer].
Seville : saves Lady Frances Touchwood from Courtall
[Mrs. Cowley, Belle'i Stratagem].
Sawyer, Bob : a medical student who sets up in practice
at Bristol and acts as Mr. Pickwick's host [Dickens,
Pickicick Papert].
Mother : the so-called witch ; a poor, deformed
old woman, of whom the villagers stood in awe [Rowley,
Dekker and Ford, Witch of Edmonton].
Scadder. General Zephaniah : agent of the Eden Land
Corporation, who dupes Martin Chuzzlewit into buying
8CA 253 SCO
• a little lot of fifty acres ' [Dickens, Martin Chuzdc-
wit}.
Scaddock : tee Scarlet, Will.
Scambister, Brie : the butler of Magnus Troll [Soott,
Pirate].
Scarlet, Will : one of Robin Hood's company, often men
Uoned in old English ballads. He is sometimes called
Scathelocke or Scadlock.
Soatcherd, Miss : an assistant teacher in the ' Lowood
Institution'. Keally a portrait of one of the staff
who treated little Maria Brontg with great cruelty
when she was dying, at the school at Cowan's Bridge
[Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre].
Scathelocke : tee Scarlet, Will.
Schacabac : the poor, almost starving man whom the
wealthy Barmecide invited to a feast [Arabian Nightt.
$ee alto Barmecide].
Schahriah : Sultan of Persia. Reasoning from the par
ticular to the general, he believed no women to be
faithful to their husbands, and so resolved to marry a
fresh wife every night and have her strangled in th«
morning. Scheherazade taught him better [Arabian
Night*}.
Schahyaman : Sultan of the ' Island of the Children of
Khaledan ', and the father of Camaralzaman [Arabian
Nighti}.
ichaibar : a grotesque dwarf, brother of the fairy Pari-
Banou [Arabian Nights}.
Schedoni : a monk, a hypocrite, a profligate, an implacable
enemy, and the committer of many crimes [Mrs.
Radcliffe, The Italian}.
Scheherazade, Queen : the elder daughter of the Vizier of
Persia, who is supposed to be the teller of the stories
[Arabian Niyhti}.
Schemseddin Mohammed : elder son of the Vizier of Egypt
and brother of Noureddln All, with whom he quarrelled
about their children who were not yet born [Arabian
Nightt}.
Vchemselnihar : the favourite wife of Haroun-al-Rascliid,
Caliph of Bagdad, who fell in love with Aboul-hassau
Ail ebn Becar, Prince of Persia [.Iranian Night»\.
Scholey, Lawrence : the son of the udaller, Magnus Troll
[Scott, Pirate}.
Sciolto : a Genoese noble, the father of Calista. He WM
killed in a street-riot [Rowe, Fair Penitent}.
Scipio : see Hannibal and Scipio.
Soott, Joe : Moore's overseer at Hollow's Mill [Cliarlotte
Bronte", Shirley}.
SCO 254 SED
Scott, Tom : Daniel Quilp's assistant, a boy who enter
tained an odd sort of liking for hi* fiemlisu master
[Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop].
Scrag, Gosling : intended as a portrait of Lord Lyttelton,
against whom the author entertained angry feelings.
The character only appears in the first edition of the
book [Smollett, Pereyrine Pickle].
Scribble : an attorney's clerk in love with Polly Honey-
combe [Colman the Elder, Potty Honey-
combe}.
Scriever, Jock : Duncan Macwheeble's apprentice [Soott,
Waverley}.
Scroggens, Giles : the hero of a comic ballad, wherein Giles
Scroggens, dying before his wedding day, comes in
ghostly form to claim his bride, Molly Brown [A Comic
Ballad}.
Scrooge, Ebenezer : converted by some Christmas Ere
visions, from hardness into tenderness [Dickens,
Christmas Carol].
Scrub : Mrs. Sullen's factotum who leads a life of miserable
over-work [Parquhar, Beaux' Stratagem],
Scrnbinda : a scullery maid in Dyot Street, Bloomsbury
Square [Rhodes, Bombattet Furioto].
Scruple : an honest sort of man in the main, who arranges
to elope with Harriet Dunder. His father discovers
the plot and frustrates the scheme, but gives his consent
to the marriage [Colman the Younger, Way* and
Meant].
Scudamore, Sir=' the Shield of Love '. He was beloved
by Amoretta [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Sealorth, The Earl ol : a royalist and paxtizan of King
Charles I [Scott, Legend of Mo»trr>sr}.
Sebastian, Don : King of Portugal, taken prisoner by the
Moors, and rescued from death by Dorar, who is a
Portuguese, at the court of the Emperor of Barbary
[Dryden, Don Sebastian].
Sebastian : the father of Valentine and Alice [J. Fletcher,
Mont. Thomat}.
Don : the hero of a novel [Anna M. Porter, Don
Sebastian}.
the brother of Alonzo, King of Naples [Shakespeare,
Tempest].
: Viola's brother, to whom Olivia is ultimately
m.irried, she mistaking him at first for Viola [Shake
speare, Twelfth Night].
Sedley. Amelia : daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sedley ; an
amiable, gentle girl, without much character, but so
much in love with shallow, selfish George Osborn that
BED 255 SEM
for years she overlooks and underrates the solid worth
of Captain Dobbin.
Sedley, Mr. : a wealthy man mined by the fall hi the funds
during the Peninsular War.
» Mrs. : a homely, motherly woman embittered by
what she feels is unmerited poverty.
Joseph : Amelia's brother. A fat, self-indulgent
and conceited Anglo-Indian, an arrant coward to
boot, who falls a prey to the wiles of Becky Sharp
[Thackeray, Vanity Fair].
Seithenyn : a whimsical eccentricity who plays a con
spicuous part in the book [Peacock, Misfortune* of
fflphin].
Silim : son of the Algerine kin?, who escaped when his
father was slain by the Greek renegade Barbarossa,
and who, after a certain lapse of years, recovered his
father's throne and married Barbarossa's daughter
Irene [Brown, Barbarossa].
adopted by an uncle who had first murdered
Selim's father. Selim fell In love with Zuleika, his
cousin, and married her against the wishes of her
father, who caused Selim to be shot, and Zuleika killed
herself [Byron, Bride of Abydos].
• =Lord Lyttelton, in an ironical poem written to
exonerate him [Edward Moore, Selim the Persian].
• married to Nourmahal, the ' Light of the Harem '.
She offended him, but won back his affections by her
playing on the lute [Thomas Moore, Lalln Rnokh}.
Selima : daughter of the Sultan of Turkey and promised
in marriage to Omar, although she loved Axalla.
Tamerlane solved the problem by causing both the
Sultan and Omar to be killed, thus leaving Selima free
to many Azalla [Howe, Tamerlane].
Selkirk, Alexander : a Scottish sailor who remained for
four years alone on Juan Fernandez Island. He la
supposed to have been the original of Robinson Crusoe
[Cowper, Vertet supposed to be written by Alexander
Selkirk].
SeUock, Cisly : a young girl In the sen-ice of Sir Geoftrey
and Lady Peveril [Scott, Peveril of the Peak].
Selvaggio : the hero, who is the father of Sir Industry
[James Thomson, Castle of Indolence}.
Sempronius : a traitor to Cato and the dishonourable
lover of Marcia, Cato's daughter. He tried to carry
her off, but his evil designs were frustrated by Juba
[Addison, Cato}.
one of Timon's fine weather friends [Shakespeare,
of Athens}.
BEN 253 SHA
Bcnanns, St. : a saint dwelling on the Island of Scattery,
who vowed that no woman should ever set foot upon
it, so that even when, led by St. Canara, an angel
appeared, he refused her admission [Thomas Moore,
St. Senanu* and the Lady].
Senena : a Welsh damsel in love with Caradoc, who fol
lowed him to America disguised as a boy, under the
name of Mervyn [Southey, Madoe].
Sensitive, Lord : a young nobleman who marries a French
refugee called Sabina Bosny [Cumberland, Firtt Love].
Sentry, Captain : the representative of the army in the
club responsible for the publication of the Spectator
[Addison, Spectator, Essay 152, 350, 517, 544, etc].
Seremenes : brother-in-law of Sardanapalus, who was
slain in battle against the insurgents [Byron, Sar-
danapalus]. *
Serena : whilst gathering flowers in a meadow the Blatant
Beast appeared and carrier 1 her oft in his mouth. She
was rescued by Sir CahMore [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Sergeant of Law, The : a busy man who always seemed
even more busy than he really was [Chaucer, Canter
bury Tales].
Sergis, Sir : the attendant on Irena [Spenser, Fairy Queene].
Serina : the daughter of Lord Acasto, betrothed to
Monimia's brother Chamont [Otway, Orphan].
Seyd : Pacha of the Morea, murdered by Qulnare [Byron,
Cortair].
Seyton, Catherine : daughter of Lord Seyton, a supporter
of Mary Queen of Scots, and herself a maid of honour
to that queen [Scott, The Abbot].
Sforza, Lndovico : the Duke of Milan, surnamed ' the More '
because of a mulberry coloured birthatain on his arm
[Massinger, Duke of Milan}.
Shacoabac : see Schacabac.
Shaddai, King : fought against Diabolus for the winning
back of Mansoul [Holy War].
Shadow, Simon : one of Sir John Falstaffs recruits [Shake
speare, Henry IV pt. ii].
Shafton, Ned : imprisoned in Newgate gaol with Sir Hilde-
brand Osbaldistone [Scott, Rob Roy].
Sir Piercie : a cavalier known as the ' Knight
of Wilverton ' [Scott, Monastery].
Shag pat : the merchant on whose head grow* ' The
Identical '. It is finally shaved off by Shibli Bagaray
[George Meredith, Shaving of Shaypat].
Shalott. the Lady of : bound to sit and weave, day and
night, without ever looking towards Camelot [Alfred
Tennyson, Lady of Shalott].
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Shallow : a foolish, weak-minded country justice [Shake
speare, Merry Wives of Windsor and King Henry IV ,
pt. ii.].
Shandon, Captain : a drunken Grub Street hack, kindly
and witty ; an inmate of the Fleet Prison [Thackeray,
Pendennit].
Shandy, Captain : better known as Uncle Toby. A half-
pay officer, wounded at Namur, most gallant, modest,
brave and simple as a child.
Dinah : the hero's aunt, who leaves him
£1,000.
Mrs. : a practical nonentity, who let her husband
pursue his hobbies uninterrupted but also unadmired
by herself.
Trittram : the son of Walter and Elizabeth Shandy ;
he to the nominal hero of the novel, but its real interest
does not centre in him but in his father and mother,
Uncle Toby, etc.
- Walter : a man of an active and metaphysical, but
at the same time, a whimsical cast of mind. Father
of the hero [Sterne, Tristram Shandy].
Sharp : Major Touchwood's ordinary [Dibdin, What
Bebecca : a clever, unprincipled adventuress who
wins and abuses the love of Bawdon Crawley [Thac
keray, Vanity Fair}.
Timothy : valet to Charles Gayless, who tries to
pass his penniless master off as a man of wealth
[Garrick, Lying Valet}.
Sharpe, Right Rev. James : Archbishop of St. Andrews,
murdered by John Balfour, a Covenanter [Scott, Old
Mortality}.
Shawondasee : King of the South Wind [Longfellow,
Uiawatha}.
She : a mysterious being living In South African wilds
[Haggard, She}.
Shedad : King of Ad who took 500 years to bull J a splendid
palace and then was prevented by the angel of death
from entering it [Southey, Thalaoa].
Shelby, Mr. : Uncle Tom's first master, who became too
poor to keep him and had to sell him to a man of the
name of Legree, who whipped him to death [Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Unde Tom'* Cabin}.
Shepherd of the Ocean=Sir Walter Raleigh [Spenser,
Colin Clout's Come Home Again].
Sheppard, Jack : a daring burglar, the son of a Spitalfleld's
carpenter. He has been made the hero of a ron
[Defoe, Jack Sheppard].
W.W.F. S
SHE 258 SID
Sherborne : said to be intended for the author's father,
Isaac Disraeli [Beaconsfleld, Vivian Grey].
Sheva : ' the widow's friend, the orphan's father, the poor
man's protector ', a noble Jew, who leaves his wealth
to Charles Ratclifte, who had rescued him from the
Insults of a London mob [Cumberland, The Jew].
intended for Sir Roger Leatrange, censor of the
press, under Charles n [Dryden and Tate, Absalom
and Achiiophel, Pt. ii.].
Shift : one that never was a soldier, yet lives upon lend-
ings ' [Ben Jonson, Every Man out of Sit Humour],
Samuel : a mimic, whom Sir William Wealthy
employs to aid in saving his son George from ruin
[Foote, The Minor].
Shimei : intended for Bethel, Lord Mayor of London
[Dryden, Absalom and AchitopheQ.
intended for Dryden [Pordage, Azaria and Bushai],
Shipton, Mother : the heroine of an old tale [Preece,
Strange and Wonderful Hittory and Prophecies of
Mother Shipton].
Shore, Jane : the heroine of a tragedy. The wife of a
London merchant, she became the mistress of Edward
IV [Rowe, Jane Shore].
Shorne, Sir John : he conjured the devil into a boot [fan-
tatiie of Idolatrie].
' Short ' : see Harris, Mr.
Sliorthose : a clown in the service of Mrs. Hartwell [J.
Fletcher, Wit Without Money].
Shrapnel, Dr. : a radical doctor whose talk so influences
Nevil Beauchamp that he follows him with enthusiasm.
A remarkable and kind-hearted old man [George
Meredith. Beauchamp's Career].
Sbuffleton, The Hon. Tom : a conscienceless borrower of
money, who never remembered to repay, and who
married Lady Caroline Braymore and her income of
£4,000 a year [Colman the Younger, John Bull].
Shylock : a wretched old Jew, the victim of his own evil
passions and the unrelenting hatred of his race felt
by those amongst whom he dwelt [Shakespeare,
Merchant of Venice],
Siddartha. Prince : the Incarnation of Buddha, \vhose
teaching forms the motive of the poem [Edwin Arnold,
Liyht of Asia].
Sidney : tutor to Charles Egerton McSyeophant, and in
love with the girl to whom his pupil is betrothed
[Macklin, Man of (he World].
Sidonia : a strange and fabulously wealthy Spanish Jew,
and a philosopher [Beaconsfleld, Coningiby],
SID 259 SIN
Eidrophel : intended for the astrologer and magician
William Lily, who flourished in the seventeenth cen
tury [Butler, Hudibrat].
Sightly, Captain : a young officer who elopes with Priscilla
Tomboy [Bickerstaff, The Romp].
Sigismunda : the heroine of the tragedy [James Thomson,
Tancred and Sigismunda].
and Guiscardo : Guiscardo was the squire of King
Tancred, and secretly married Tancred's daughter
Sigismunda. Tancred on discovering the truth caused
Guiscardo to be strangled, and Segismunda took
poison [Dryden, Sigismunda and Guiscardo].
Sikes, Bill : a desperate character, one of Fagin's associates ;
a burglar and the murderer of Nancy, the girl who
lived with him [Dickens, Oliver Twist].
Silence : a foolish country justice, dull in the extreme
when sober, when drunk uproarious In his mirth
[Shakespeare, Henry IV, pt. ii.].
Sileno : the husband of Mysis, who offers Apollo a home
when he is expelled from heaven by Jupiter [O'Hara,
Midas],
Silva, Don : the Duke of Bedmar, and In love with the
gypsy girl Fedalma [George Eliot, Spanish Gypsy],
Silvia : daughter of the Duke of Milan, beloved by Valen
tine [Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona].
Siznkin, Simon : the thief who purloined half a bushel of
flour and substituted meal in its stead whilst those
employed to superintend the filling of it were chasing
a runaway horse [Chaucer, Canterbury Talet : The
Reeve1! Tale],
Simon, Margaret : daughter of the miller [Stirling, Gold
Mine; or, Miller of Grenoble].
——^— a tanner who is elected Mayor of Qneenborough
[Middleton, Mayor of Queenborough].
" Lee : tee Lee, Simon.
Pure : tee Pure, Simon.
Simple : a young man who travels through London and
Westminster ' in search of a faithful friend ' [Sarah
Fielding, Adventures of David Simple].
the servant of Slender, Justice Shallow's consin
[Shakespeare, Merry Wivet of Windsor].
Peter : the hero and title of a novel [Marryat,
Peter Simple].
Sindall, Sir Thomas : an immoral character hi the novel
[Mackenzie, Man of the World].
Sindbad the Sailor : a rich merchant of Bagdad who made
seven voyages teeming with adventures and strange
experiences [Arabian Rights],
SIN 260 SLA
Single Gentleman : the brother of Little Nell's grandfather,
who turns out to be Master Humphrey, the teller of
the story [Dickens, Old Curioiity Shop],
Singleton, Captain : the hero of a novel [Defoe, Adventure*
of Captain Singleton].
Siphax: a soldier. He loved Calls, the sister of the Paphlan
King, Astorax [Beaumont and Fletcher,] Mad
Lover].
Siward : the Earl of Northumberland, commanding the
English army against Macbeth [Shakespeare, Macbeth],
Skeggs, Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia : one of the two
fast women introduced to the Primrose family by
Squire Thornhill [Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakcfldd].
Skettles, Sir Barnet : an M.P. who lived at Fulham, and
whose main object in life was to widen the circle of
his acquaintance. His son was* at Dr. Blimber's
school [Dickens, Dombey and Son].
Skewton, The Hon. Mrs. : called ' Cleopatra ' because a
sketch of her, published of her in her youth, was so
called. She was the mother of Edith Dombey [Dickens,
Dombey and Son].
Skiffins, Miss : a lady with some ' portable property '
whom Mr. Wemmick marries [Dickens, Great Ex
pectation*}.
Skimpole, Harold: Mr. Jarndyce's protege— bright and
engaging, but altogether selfish. Constantly getting
into debt, and as constantly being helped out of his
difficulties by friends who are hardly even thanked for
their pains [Dickens, Bleak Souse],
Sktonar, Mr. : 'the transcendental poet '. A member of
the house-party at Crotchet Castle [Peacock, Crotchet
Cattle].
Skyreth Bolgolam : High-Admiral of LIUiput [Swift,
Gulliver'* Travel*].
Slackbridge : a « hand ' at Bounderby's mill who wields
considerable power over his fellow workmen [Dickens,
Sard Times].
Slammer, Dr. : of the ' Ninety-Seventh ', with whom Mr.
Winkle nearly fights a duel [Dickens, Potthumoul
Paper* of Pickwick Club].
Slantmerkin, Mrs. : ' careless and genteel ' and apt to
' affect an undress ' [Gay, Beggar' » Opera].
Slander : an aged crone whose duty it was to abuse good-
nesi, and who was of ' ragged, rude attyre, and filthy
lockes ' [Spenser, Fairy Queene].
Slango : the servant of Gaylove, who passes himself oft as
Arbella, the wife elect of Sapskull [Carey, Honett
Torkshireman],
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Slay-good, Giant ! one of the giants whom Greatheart
slew [Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress].
Bleary : owner of a ' horse-riding ' or circus. He had one
fiied and one loose eye, and a voice like a broken pair
of bellows, aad he suffered from asthma.
Josephine: his daughter, a fair-haired girl of
eighteen [Dickens, Hard Times].
Sleek, Aminadab : one of the characters in a comedy
[Barnett, Seriout Family].
Slender : Justice Shallow's silly cousin [Shakespeare,
Merry Wive* of Windsor].
Slick, Sam : a Yankee pedlar, and clockmaker of Sllckville,
full of odd fancies, acuteness and ' pleasant answers '
[Halliburton, Sam Slick].
Sliderskew, Peg : Arthur Gride's dishonest housekeeper
[Dickens, Nicholas Niekleby].
Slinkton, Julias : the would-be murderer of Alfred Beck-
with, and a suicide [Dickens, Bunted Doim].
Slip : the scheming valet of young Harlowe [Garrick,
Neck or Nothing].
Slippery Sam : a highwayman [Gay, Beggar's
Opera].
Slipslop, Mrs. : an undesirable sort of woman [Fielding,
Joseph Andrew!].
Slop, Dr. : a testy and enthusiastic physician who does
his friends grievlous bodily harm in experimenting
with a pair of new forceps' [Sterne, Tristram Shandy].
Slope, The Key Obadiah : Bishop Proudie's chaplain — a
revolting character [Anthony Trollope, Barchenter
Towert],
Sloppy : ' a very long boy wi*Ji a very little head and an
open mouth ' ; a waif brought up by Betty Higden,
whose mangle he turns for her [Dickens, Our Mutual
friend].
Slowboy, Tilly : a foundling whom Mrs. Peerybingle em
ploys as nurse to her baby, and as general ' help '
[Dickens, Cricket on the Hearth].
Sludge : the medium who is detected in the art of cheating
[R. Browning, Mr. Sludge, ' The Medium '].
Slug, Mr. : a noted statistician with a complexion of ' dark
purple ' and a ' habit of sighing constantly ' [Dickens,
Afudfog Association].
Slum, Mr. : a writer of poetical advertisements [Dickens,
Old Curiosity Shop].
Slumkey, Samuel : successful Parliamentary candidate for
Eatanswill [Dickens, Pickwick Papers].
Sly, Christopher : the tinker, in the ' InductiOb » [Shake
speare, Taming of the Shrew],
SLY 262 SNA
Slyme, Chevy : ' an unappreciated genius ' in the opinion
of bis friend Montague Tigg ; really a drunken
scoundrel [Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit].
Small, Gilbert : a pin-maker.
— — — Thomas: the phi-maker's son, who aims at being
a fashionable man about town and thinks to improve
his position by marriage. After marriage he finds
he has married a cobbler's daughter [Knowles, Beggar
of Bethnal Green}.
Smallweed Family, The : a dreadful family who have come
down in the world and are paupers by their very
nature [Dickens, Bleak Souse].
Smangle : a fellow-prisoner with Mr. Pickwick in the Fleet
[Dickens, Pickwick Papers].
Smart, Tom : the hero of the Bagman's story [Dickens,
Picku-ick Papers}.
Smauker, Mr. John : Mr. Angelo Cyrus Bantam's footman,
who Invites Sam Weller to a ' swarry ' of ' biled
mutton ' in the Crescent at Bath [Dickens, Pickwick
Papers].
Smite : the boy rescued by Nicholas Nickleby from Dothe-
boy's Hall, where Ralph Nickleby, Smike's father,
had placed him [Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby].
Smilinda : she who argues with Cordelia as to ' who suffers
most, she who loses at basset, or she who loses her
lover T ' [Pope, Eclogue : The Battet Table].
Smith, Harriet : the rather empty-headed friend and
protegi of Emma, beloved by P.obert Martin [Jane
Austen, Emma],
Henry : tec Gow, Henry.
— — - Mr. : confidential clerk to Messrs. Dornton and
Sulky [Holcroft, Road to Ruin].
Van Diemen : a colonist who has a passion for
everything English and a great desire to return to
England [George Meredith, The Souse on the Beach].
—— Waylaid : a farrier who haunted the Vale of the
White Horse in Berkshire. A more or less historical
character, but overlaid with folk-lore and myth [Scott,
Kenihcorth].
Smofherwell, Stephen : the executioner [Scott, Fair Maid
of Perth].
Snacks : Lord Lackwit's steward [Allingham, Fortune's
frolic].
Snaggs : drew ' off heads ' and drew ' out teeth ' — In other
words he took the likenesses and extracted the teeth
of the villagers [Dibdin, What Next !].
Snagsby, Mr. : a gentle and timid law-stationer in Coofi
Court, Cursitor Street [Dickens, Bleak Bouse].
SNA 263 80H
Snake, Mr. : a friend of Lady Sneerwell's, who plays her
false [Sheridan, School for Scandal}.
Snawley Mr. : ' in the oil and colour line ' ; a low scoundrel,
who places two little step-sons at Dotheboy'a Hall,
with the understanding that they are to have no holi
days [Dickens, Nicholas Niddeby}.
Sneak, Jerry : a pin-maker [Foote, Mayor of Qarralt].
Sneer : a man that says one thing to authors to their face,
and the opposite behind their backs [Sheridan, Th»
Critic].
Sneerwell, Lady : In love with Charles Surface, and a
member of the Scandal Club [Sheridan, School for
Scandal].
Snevellicci, Miss : a member of Crummle's Theatrical
Company, equal to any part that might fall to her
lot. She tried to entrap Nicholas Nickleby, but
failed.
Mr. : also a member of Mr. Crummle'a Company,
who takes the parts of military swells.
Mrs. : his wife, who dances [Dickens, A'icholat
Nickleby}.
Saitchey and Craggs : a firm of lawyers [Dickens, Battle
of Life].
Snodgrass, Augustus : a poet, and a corresponding member
of the Pickwick Club, who marries Emily WardU
[Dickens, Pickwick Papers].
Charles : locum tenons for Dr. Pringle during his
absence from Scotland ; Snodgrass marries Isabella
Tod [Gait, Ayrshire Legatees}.
Snout, Tom : the tinker ; one of the ' c<ist ' for ' Pyramus
and Thlsby ', in which Peter Quince and Nick Bottom
play such Important parts [Shakespeare, Midsummer
Night's Dream].
Snowe, Lncy : the heroine, and also the teller of the story
[Charlotte Bronte, VilleUe],
Saubbin, Serjeant : Senior Counsel for Mr. Pickwick in the
famous suit of Bardell v. Pickwick [Dickens, Pick***
Papers],
Snuffim, Sir Tumley : Mrs. Wititterly's doctor [Dickens,
Nicholas Nickleby].
Snaffle, Simon : the sexton and a member of the Corpora*
tion [Foote, Mayor of GarraU].
Sang : the joiner, who is cast for the lion's part in the
tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe [Shakespeare, Mid
summer Night's Dream].
Sohrab : son of Rustum ; both are warriors. Ignorant of
their relationship, they meet in battle, and Rustum
kills Sohrab [Matthew AraolJ. Sohrab and Rustum].
SOL 264 SOW
i, The = Philip II of Spain, who was challenged by
Prince Arthur and by him utterly routed [Spenser,
Faery Queene].
Soiiman and Perseda : a picture of ' Love's constancy,
Fortune's inconstancy, and Death's triumphs ' [attri-
Kyd, Tragedy e of Soiiman and Perseda].
Solinus, Duke of Ephesus : a character in the comedy
[Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors}.
Solomon : a butler ; one of Count Wintersen's household
[B. Thompson, The Stranger}.
—— and Saturn : a poem cast in the form of a dialogue
[Cynewulf, Solomon and Saturn].
Solos : an old bachelor whose wishes sway like a pendulum,
between matrimony and a single life [Mrs. Inchbald
Every One Sat Hit Fault].
Sophia : the mother of the Dukes of Nprmandy, Eollo and
Otto [J. Fletcher, Bloody Brother}.
— — — wife ot a Bohemian knight, Mathias by name.
During her husband's absence from home Ubaldo and
Ricardo tried to attempt her virtue, but in vain
[Massinger, The Picture}.
The Princess : daughter of the King of Lombardy.
Charged with unseemly behaviour, Paladore challanged
her accusers. Sophia's innocence was proved and
she became the bride of Paladore [Jephson, Lav of
Lombardy].
Sophonisba : daughter of Asdrubal and betrothed to
Masinissa, King of the Numidians. This lady has
been the subject of so many dramas that it is im
possible here to name tLem all. The two most im
portant are James Thomson, Sophonisba ; John
Marston, Wonder of Women ; or, Tragedy of Sophon
isba].
Sophy : ' the dearest girl in the world ', who marries
Traddles [Dickens, David Copperfield].
Sorano : a villain and the brother of Kvadne [Beaumont
and Fletcher, Wife for a Month].
Bordello : an ambitious poet, of the type of the early
troubadours, who wishes to Influence the world [R.
Browning, SordeUo].
Sorrel, Hetty : the young village girl betrayed by Arthur;
Donnlthorne, who arrives with a reprieve just as she,
Is about to suffer death for child murder [George Eliot,
Adam Bede}.
South, Esquire : intended for the Archduke Charles of
Austria [Arbuthnot, History of John £utt].
Sowerby, Dudley : the son of a peer, who becomes engaged
to Nesta, but on learning the circumstances of her
SOW 265 8PR
birth ends it, and tries, too late, to renew it [George
Meredith, One of Our Conquerors].
8owerb«rry, Mr. : the undertaker to whom Oliver Twist
is apprenticed when he first leaves the workhouse.
Mrs . : the wife of the undertaker, who treats Oliver
with great unklndness [Dickens, Oliver Twist].
Spado : a mischievous scamp who plays tricks on every one
[O'Keefe, Castle of Andalusia}.
Spanker, Lady Gay : a telling character in the play [Dion
Boucicault, London Assurance].
Sparabella : a shepherdess who loves D'Urfey, who in his
turn loves Clumsilis ; Sparabella determines on suicide,
but cannot decide on the manner [Gay, Pattoral iii.].
Sparkish : a coxcomb with a pretence at learning. This
is the character on which Congreve based his ' Tattle '
[Wycherley, Country Wife, 1671-2; adapted by
Garrick, sub tit Country Girl, 1766, containing the
same character].
Sparkler, Edmund : marries Little Don-it's sister, Fanny.
He is the son of Mrs. Merdle by her first husband.
Mrs. : a pretty, self-willed, determined woman,
who had been a ballet-dancer and ruled her husband
with a ftrm and steady hand [Dickens, Little Don-it].
Sparowe, Philip : the pet sparrow of Jane Scrope, killed
by a cat [Skelton, Sake of Phyttyp Sparowe, c. 1708].
Sparsit, Mrs. : housekeeper to Josiah Boundcrby, \vho
controls the finances of the household, and plays the
spy on her master and mistress [Dickens, Hard Times}.
Speed : servant to Valentine [Shakespeare, Two Gentle-
men of Verona"].
Spenlow, Dora : the ' child-wife ' of David Copperfirld
[Dickens, David Copperfield}.
Franeit : of the firm of Spenlow and Jorkius,
Proctors He was the father of Dora, afterward* Mrs.
David Copperfleld.
Lavinia and Clarisia : his sisters, who brought
Dora up [Dickens, David Copperfield}.
Spindle, Jack : the son of a wealthy man, who, having
dissipated his fortune, tries to borrow. Some amus
ing interviews result [Goldsmith, The Bee}.
Spitflre.Will: RogerWildrake's boy-servant[Scott, Woodstock}.
Sprackling, Joseph : a money-lender, not too honest.
Thomas : his brother, with about the same standard
of morality [Reeve, Parted}.
Sprightly, Miss Kitty : a great heiress, the ward of Sfa-
Gilbert Pumpkin. She falls in love with Charles
Stanley, who has taken part in theatricals at her
guardian's house [Jackman, Att the World's a Stage],
8PR 2S6 STA
Sprightly, Sophia: full of ftre and spirit, she has a fancy for
the Hon. Mr. Daffodil, but learning that he la nothing
better than a flirt, rejects him and marries her true
lover, Tukely [Garrick, Male Coquette].
Bprnce, Captain M. C. : one of the characters In the play
[J. M. Morton, Lend Me Five ShUlings}.
Bpumador : Prince Arthur's charger [Spenser, Faery
Queene].
Square, Mr. : a philosopher [Fielding, Tom Jones].
y plays [Wycherley
Country Wife ; and Otway, Friendship in
Squeamish, Lady : a character in two
Fashion].
8 queers. Miss Fanny : the schoolmaster's daughter, an
unattractive and shrewish looking girl of three and
twenty.
Mrt. : a hard-hearted, ill-tempered woman, the
schoolmaster's wife.
Wackford : the proprietor of the school at Dothe-
boys Hall ; a brutal, cowardly bully, who maltreats
the boys and steals their pocket-money, The man
to whom Nicholas went as assistant master.
Wackford, junr.: a disagreeable boy, who was
dressed in the pupils' best clothes [Dickens, Nicholat
Nickleby],
Squeeze, Miss : the daughter of a pawnbroker who, hav
ing inherited a small fortune : was so afraid of being
married for her money that she never married at all
[Goldsmith, Citizen o/ the World}.
Squint, Lawyer : a public speaker and politician [Gold
smith, Citizen of the World],
Squintum, Doctor = George Whitefleld, a celebrity of the
day (1714-70), whom the dramatist introduced into
his farce [Foote, Minor].
Squire Meldrnm : tee Meldrum, Squire.
o! Dames : a knight who loved Columbell. She
ordained that he should serve for one whole year
before she became his bride. This knight proved
to be Britomart [Spenser, Faery Queene].
ol Low Degree, The : the hero of a curious old
English romance [Kitson, Ancient Romances],
Western : tee Western, Squire.
Squirt : the apothecary boy [Garth, Ditpensary].
Squod, Phil : a boy that Mr. George had rescued from the
gutter and afterwards employed in his shooting gallery
[Dickens, Bleak House].
Stag?, Benjamin : the owner of the cellar In the Barbican,
where Tappertit and the other * Prentice Knights '
used to meet [Dickens, Barnaby Budge],
8TA 267 8TE
Stalky : a troublesome, vulgar schoolboy whose chief
object In life was to outwit those set in authority over
him [Kipling, Stalky <t Co.].
Stanchells : head gaoler at the tolbooth, Glasgow [Scott,
Rob Ray}.
Staadish, Miles : a New England colonist who had gone
out in the Mayflower, and who loved Priscilla, but
lacked courage to plead his own cause [Longfellow,
Courtship of MUet Standish}.
Stanley, Capt. Charles : the man who acted in private
theatricals at Sir Gilbert Pumpkin's, and taking ad
vantage of his position eloped with Sir Gilbert's ward,
Kitty Sprightly [Jackman, All the World's a Stage].
Sir Hubert : a poor country squire [Thomas Morton,
Cure for the Heart-Ache}.
Staples, Lawrence : the chief gaoler at Kenilworth Castle
[Scott, Keniluwth].
Stareleigh, Mr. Justice : the testy and deaf little judge who
presided at the trial of Bardell v. Pickwick [Dickens,
Pickwick Papers}.
Starno : King of Lochlin, who tried to deal treacherously
by Fingal, in return for kindness shown [Ossiaa,
Fingal, ill.].
Starveling Robin : a tailor, cast for the part of Thlsbe's
mother in the tragedy of Pyramus and Thiabe
[Shakespeare, Midsummer Night' t Dream}.
Statira : wife of Alexander, and daughter of Darius. A
devoted wife,, murdered by her husband's mistress,
Roxana [Lee, Alexander the Great].
Staonton, George : the betrayer of Erne Deans, who after
wards makes her all the reparation he can by marrying
her [Scott, Heart of Midlothian}.
Steel, Sir Gray : see Eger, Sir.
Steelyard, Mr. : the housekeeper and mother of Parson
Chowne [Blackmore, Maid of Sker}.
Steenson, Maggie : Willie's wife, also called ' Epps Anslie '.
Steenton : the Piper, of whom ' Wandering Willie '
speaks hi his tale.
Willie : generally known as ' Wandering Willie '
[Scott, Redgauntlit}.
Steerforth, James : David's old schoolfellow, who betrayed
Little Em'ly and then proposed to hand her over to
his valet. He was drowned ofl Yarmouth [Dickens,
David Copperfleld].
Steinornhera von BluUacker, Francis : the executioner
[Scott, Anne of Geierstein}.
Steiniort, The Baron : in love with Mrs. Ilaller [B. Thomp
son, Stranger}.
8TE 268 8TR
Stella — Lady Penelope Devereux, the lady whom the poet
loved [Sidney, Attrophd and Stella].
Miss Hester Johnson, the girl whom the author
taught, loved, and secretly married [Swift, Journal to
StfUa].
Steno, Michel : one of the chief of the Venetian Council of
Forty [Byron, Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice}.
Stephen : one of Front de Boeufs train [Scott, Ivarihoe],
Master : a melancholy, stupid countryman [Ben
Jonson, Every Man in Hit Humour].
Sterling, Miss : an ill-tempered woman, the elder daughter
of the merchant, who fails to marry at all [Garrick,
Clandestine Marriage}.
Miss Fanny : a beautiful and attractive girl
secretly married to Lovewell.
— - — Mr. : a wealthy city merchant who«e ambition
It was to see his daughters ' married to titles ' [Garrick,
Clandestine Marriage].
Steyne, Marquis ol : a disreputable though very wealthy
old nobleman whose conduct with Becky Sharp
scandalized London Society [Thackeray, Vanity Fair].
Stiggins, The Reverend Mr. : a dissenting minister much
appreciated by Mrs. Weller and known as ' the Shep
herd ' [Dickens, Pickwick Paper*].
Stilgoe, Nanny : a ' wise woman ' living hi the village of
West Lorraine [Blackmore, Alice Lorraine.]
Stitch, Tom : a young and very gallant tailor. A ' merry
hixtr>ry ' very popular in the seventeenth century.
Stockwell, Nancy : promised by her father to young
Ilarlow, although loving Belford. It turns out that
Harlow is already secretly married, so Nancy marries
the man she loves [Garrick, Neck or Nothing}.
Stafford, Earl of : the hero of an historical tragedy [B.
Browning, Stafford].
Straitlace, Dame Philip pa : Blushington's maiden aunt,
who had hoped to become hia housekeeper [Moncrieff,
Sathful Man].
Siralenheim, Count of : a mean and grasping nobleman
robbed by Werner and murdered by IJlric.
— — Ida : his daughter and betrothed to Ulric. When
Ulric tells her of his crime they part for ever [Byron,
Werner].
Strap, Hugh : Roderick Random's faithful follower
[Smollett, Roderick Random}.
Stremon : a shepherd who courts Urania [Sidney, Arcadia}.
Strickland : an Indian police officer [Kipling, Lije"! Handi
cap}-
Mr. : the ' suspicious husband ' who suspects
8TR 269 8UL
all the women with whom he Is connected of repre
hensible conduct.
Strickland, Mrs. : his model wife — a world too good for
him [Hoadly, Suspicious Husband].
Strike, Caroline : The beautiful sister of Evan Harrington,
married to an officer in the Marines, who illtreats her.
Is introduced into Society by the Countess de Saldar
[George Meredith, Evan Harrington.
Strong, Doctor : ' the kindest ' of men, and the ' idol of the
whole school ' [Dickens, David Copperfield}.
Strnldbrugs, The : the inhabitants of Luggnagg [Swift,
Gulliver's Travels].
Strutt, Lord-the ' King of Spain ' [Arbuthnot, History of
John Bun.]
Stryver, Bully : Damay's counsel at his trial [Dickens,
Tale of Two Cities].
Stubble, Reuben : Farmer Cornflower's bailiff, ' a plain,
upright, and downright man ' [C. I. M. Dibden,
Farmer's Wife].
Stubbs : the Wellingham beadle [Scott, Heart of Mid
lothian].
Stuffy, Matthew : considered that owing to a squint he
was peculiarly fitted to act as prompter at a theatre.
He could, he said, keep one eye on the actor, the other
on his book [Matthews, At Home].
Stnkely : a dishonest acquaintance of Beverley, and a
suitor of Miss Beverley's [Edward Moore, Gamester].
Captain Harry : Sir Gilbert Pumpkin's nephew
[Jackman, All the World's a Stage].
Will : one of Little John's boon companions, who
was rescued from the sheriff of Nottingham by Robin
Hood (Robin Hood's Rescuing Will Slutly : ballad].
Sturgeon, Major, J.P. : a Brentford fishmonger who pays
court to Mrs. Jerry Sneak [Foote, Mayor of Garratt].
Sturmthal, Melchior : a member of the Swiss deputation
[Scott, Anne of Geicrslcin].
Btutly, Will : see Stukely, Will.
Subtle : a quack who tries to figure as an alchemist [Ben
Jonson, Alchemist].
— Mr. and Mrs. : a dishonest couple who, dwelling
In Paris, live on the weaknesses of Englishmen visiting
that city [Foote, Englishmen in Paris].
Sulky, Mr. : his repellant exterior belied a kindly nature
capable of showing unselfish friendship [Holcroft,
Road to Ruin].
Sullen, Mrs. : the uncongenial wife of the squire, from
whom he was separated at the end of fourteen
months.
8UL 270 8VE
SuUen, Squire : son of Lady Bountiful by a former mar
riage. ' He says little, thinks less, and does nothing at
all ' [Farquhar, Beaux' Stratagem].
Sul-MaDa : the daughter of Conmor, King of Inls-Huaa
[Ossian, Temora].
Summerson, Esther : tee Hawdon. Esther.
Supple : a character In the comedy [Gibber, Double
Gallant].
Squire Western's boon companion [Fielding, Tom
Jon ft].
Surface, Charles : a young rake who is possessed of good
qualities which in the end prevail.
Joseph : his brother — a consummate hypocrite,
eventually unmasked.
Sir Oliver : uncle of Charles and Joseph, who
assumes the name of Premium Stanley [Sheridan,
School for Scandal].
Surly : just the opposite of Sir Courtly Nice, and as un
attractive as he can possibly be [Crowne, Sir Courtly
Nice}.
——— a gambling friend of Sir Epicure Mammon [Ben
Jonson, Alchemist}.
Surplus, Charles : nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Surplus.
Mr. and Mrs.: a lawyer and his wife [Morton,
A Regular Fix].
Surrey, White : the name of King Kichard Hi's charger,
ridden by him at Bosworth Field [Shakespeare, Sing
Kichard III].
Susan. Black-Eyed : (he heroine of a ballad [Gay, Sweet
WOliam'i Farewell].
- Duchess : the young duchess raised from a low
position by an old duke. She determines to have a
good time and unknowingly causes a tragedy [George
Meredith, Tale of Chloe].
Susanna: the subject of a poem [Ayleth, Susanna ; or,
the Arraignment of the Two Elder*].
Button. Hero : in love with Sir Valentine de Grey. She
assumes the dress and manners of a Quakeress in order
to win him [Wit].
Sir WOliam : the uncle of Hero [Knowles, Woman's
Wit].
Suwarrow, Alexander : a Russian general of great brutality,
referred to by Campbell in Pleasure* of Hope, and by
Byron in Don Juan.
Suzanne : wife of the chemist and druggist, Chalomel
iWa-e, Pipertnan't Predicament].
Svenpali : a Russian hypnotist and musician [Du Maurier,
Truby].
SWA 271 8YL
Swanne, Knight of the : the hero of an old English tale
derived from the French [Copland, Knight of tht
Swanne].
Swanston : a smuggler [Scott, Redgaunilrt}.
Swaran : King of Lochlin (Denmark), who, upon his in
vasion of Ireland, was defeated by Fingal [Ossian,
Finyal].
Sweedlepipe, Paul : Mrs. Gamp's Landlord. A fashionable
hair-dresser, and a bird-fancier [Dickens, Martin
Chuzdewit].
Sweepclean, Saunders : a king's messenger [Scott, Anti-
gruary].
Sweeting, the Rev. Mr. : curate of Nunnely under Mr. Hall ;
a weak but well-intentioned man who marries Dora
Sykes [Charlotte Bront«, Shirley].
Swidger, Milly : the wife of William and the heroine of the
story.
« Philip : custodian of the Institution where Mr.
Redlaw lectures. A happy old man of eighty-seven
[Dickens, Haunted Man].
SwiveUer, Dick : clerk to Sampson Brass, and friend of
Fred Trent. He Is nursed through a severe illness
by the • Marchioness ', and marries her [Dickens,
Old Curiosity Shop].
Sybil : the heroine of a novel dealing with political ques
tions [Beaconsfleld, Sybil : or, Two Nations].
Sycoraz : a witch who confined Ariel in the rift of a pine
tree for twelve years. She was Caliban's mother
[Shakespeare, Tempest].
— — — — intended to represent Joseph Ritson, the literary
critic [T. F. Dlbdin, Bibliomania].
Sydenham, Charles : the friend of the Woodvllles [Cum
berland, Wheel of Fortune].
Sylla, Cornelias : his claims were set aside In favour of
Marius, as leader in the Mithridatic War. Having
ousted Marius from this position, he continued the
war with success and caused himself to be appointed
Perpetual Dictator ' [Lodge, Wounds of Civil War,
etc.].
Syllabub, Tim : a dirty, shabby-genteel man, much given
to hymn singing and pot-house wit [Goldsmith,
Citizen of the World].
Sylli, Signer : a fantastic Italian dandy, In love with
Camiola [Massinger, Maid of Honour],
Sylvia : the forsaken mistress of Vainlove [Congreve,
Old Bachelor].
— — — the heroine of a pastoral poem [Darley, Sylvia ;
or, May Quern].
8YL 272 TAL
Sylvia, daughter of Justice Balance and In love with
Captain Plume. Her father opposing her marriage,
she dresses as a man. enlists in Plume's regiment under
an assumed name, and finally marries her love [Far-
quhar, Recruiting Officer].
— — the heroine. The ' Lovers ' are Philip Hepburn,
a draper of Whitby, and a dashing young sailor,
Charlie Kinraid, who is kidnapped by the press-gang
[Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers • gee alto Robson, Sylvia.
Symkyn, Symond : a miller who dwelt at Troiapington,
near Cambridge. None too honest and wedded to
the 8tuck-up daughter of a parson [Chaucer, Canter
bury Tales : The Reeves' Tale].
Symonides the Good : the King of Pentapolis [Shakespeare,
Pericles Prince of Tyre].
Syntax, Doctor : a wife-ridden, pious, gullible clergyman,
who went on three tours — in search of the picturesque,
In search of consolation, and in search of a wife, re
spectively [Coombe, Three Tourt of Dr. Syntax].
Synteresis : the personification of Conscience [Phineas
Fletcher, Purple Island].
Syphax : a Numidian soldier in the train of Prince Juba
[Addison, Cato].
Tachebrune : Ogier the Dane's charger.
Tacket, Martin and Tibb : Julian Avenel's old shepherd
and his wife [Scott, Monastery].
Tackleton : a toy -maker who disliked children [Dickens,
Cricket on the Hearth],
Tactus : a character in a curious old play wherein It is
asserted that the Tongue is a sixth sense [Brewer,
Combat of the Tongue and Five Senses].
Tadpole : an electioneering agent [Beaconsfield, Coningsby].
Taffril. Lieutenant : in love with Jenny Caxton, a milliner
[Scott, Antiquary].
Taffy=Talbot Wynne, a Yorkshireman who marries Miss
Bagot [Du Maurier, Trilby].
Tag : lady's-maid to Biddy Bellair [Qarrlck, Mitt in Her
Teens].
Talbot, Colonel : an English friend of Waverley's [Scett,
Waverley].
Taliesin : the chief of the Welsh bards in the days of King
Arthur [Drayton, Polyolbion].
Tallyho, Sir Toby : a rowdy Englishman [Foote, English
man returned from Paris].
Tains : a brazen man created by Vulcan to guard the
Island of Crete ; an attendant upon Artegal [Spenaer,
Faery Queene].
TAM 273 TEA
Tarn O'Shanter : see O'Shanter, Tarn.
O'Todshaw : see O'Todshaw, Tarn.
Tamburlaine : the great Tartar conqueror of Central
Asia [Marlowe, Tamberlaine the Great}.
Tamerlane : the hero of a tragedy which achieved
great popularity [Rowe, Tamerlane].
Taznora : Queeu of the Goths [Shakespeare, Titus Andro-
nicus].
Tamper : the betrothed of Emily, q.v. [Colman the Elder,
Deuce it in Him].
Tancred : a young nobleman, who goes out to the East
to solve ' the Asian Mystery '. His adventures are
numerous but futile [Beaconsfleld, Tancred ; or,
the New Crusade].
a crusader [Scott, Count Robert of Paris].
and Sigismunda : the hero and heroine of a tragedy
founded on a story in Gil Bias called ' Baneful Marriage'
[James Thomson, Tancred and Sigismunda].
Tankard, Squire : Parliamentary candidate who with Sir
Harry Foxchase opposes Lord Place and Colonel
Promise [Fielding, Pasquin].
Taper : an electioneering a?ent [Beaconsfleld, Coningsby}.
Tapley, Mark : the humble friend and companion of
Martin Chuzzlewit when he emigrates to America
[Dickens, Martin ChuzzleivX].
Tappertit, Simon : Gabriel Varden's apprentice, in love
with Dolly Varden, and hence an enemy of Joe Willet
[Dickens, Barnaby Jtudge].
Tapwell, Timothy : Wellborn's butler. He Insulted his
master when he was under a cloud and fawned upon
him when he thought his fortunes were improving
[Massinger, New Way to Pay Old Debts].
Targe, Duncan : a Highlander who quarrels with his
fellow-servant, George Buchanan, upon the subject
of Mary, Queen of Scots [Dr. John Moore, Zeluco].
Tartlet, Tim : Mrs. Pattypan's servant, who loved ' to se«
life ' because it is * so agreeable ' [Cobb, First
Floor}.
Tasnar : an enchanter who sided with the rebel army
against Misnar, Sultan of Delhi [Ridley, Tales of the
Genii].
Tatlanthe : Queen Fadladinida's favourite [Carey, Chre-
nonhotontMogoi].
Tattle : a half-witted beau ; made up of ' lying, foppery,
vanity, cowardice, brag, licentiousness, and ugliness'
[Congreve, Love for Love].
Tattycoram : see Beadle, Harriet
Teagae : an Irish servant [Howard, Committee].
W.W.F. T
TEA 274 TEX
Teazle, Lady : an Innocent country girl who, married to
an old man, gets compromised by her relations with
Joseph Surface. She sees her folly and repents.
Sir Peter : an uxorious old gentleman with a young
wife [Sheridan, School for Scandal}.
Telemachns : the hero of a musical opera [John Hughes,
Calypso and Ttiemachut].
Teller, Jamie : the hero of an old Scottish ballad.
Tell, William : the subject of a tragedy [Knowles, WOlittm
Tdl].
Tempest, Hon Mr. : late Governor of Senegambia ; con
tented, testy, hasty, and very poor.
Mitt Emily : his daughter ; very lively and very
clever, but disinclined to marry the husband selected
for her by her father [Cumberland, Wheel of Fortune].
Lady Betty : beautiful, wealthy, and of noble birth,
she had had her judgment warped by the reading of
too many romances [Goldsmith, Citizen of (he
World].
Temple, Henrietta : the heroine of a love-story [Beacons-
field, Henrietta Temple].
... Miss : one of the teachers at Lowood School. The
character is drawn from that of one of the governesses
at Cowan's Bridge, who was kind to the little Brontes
[Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre].
Teril, Sir Walter : the bridegroom of Caelistina, who takes
a sleeping draught so as to simulate death and thus
escape dishonour [Dekker, Saliromastit].
Termagant : a woman who uses the moat extraordinary
language. She is Harriet Quidnunc's maid [Murphy,
Upholsterer].
Terpin, Sir : a captive of Queen Radigund, who ill-used h'"i
shamefully [Spenser, Faery Qutenr].
Tessa : the girl who loves Tito Alelema [George Eliot,
Romola].
Teste : a clown [Shakespeare, Twelfth Night].
Tethys : daughter of Heaven and Earth, and mother of
the river-gods, by Ocean, her husband [Milton, Camus].
Testy, Timothy : one of the characters in a humorous
production [Beresford, Mueriet of Human Life],
Tetterby, Mr. Adolphus : a vendor of newspapers.
Mrt. Sophia : his wife.
'Dolphus : their eldest son, a railway newspaper-
boy [Dickens, Haunted Man].
Teulehdrokh, Herr : an eccentric German philosopher,
the enemy of all shams [Carlyle, Sartor Retartut].
Texa.-tis : a Scythian soldier, who dies by the hand of
Brenhilda [Scott, Count Robert of Paris].
TEZ 275 THE
Tezozoznoo : the chief priest of the Aztecas, who wished
to sacrifice ' the White strangers ' as a peace offering
to the gods [Southey, Madoc].
Thaddeus : the hero of a romantic novel which was the
cause of the authoress being elected a Canoness of
the Teutonic Order of St. Joachim [Jane Porter,
Thaddeus of Warsaw].
Thaddu : father of Morna, hence the grandfather of Fingal
[Ossian, Fingal].
Thais a : wife of Pericles and daughter of King Simonides
[Shakespeare, Pericles Prince of Tyre].
Thalaba : the destroyer of evil spirits, a power which he
lost by an act of folly [Southey, Thatabd].
Thalestris=Mrs. Morley, the sister of Sir George Brown,
who also appears in the poem as Sir Fluma [Pope,
Rape of the Lock],
The Doctor ' : tee Losberne.
•The Golden Dustman': nee Boffin, Nicodemns.
' The Man from Shropshire ' : see Gridley, Mr.
' The Shepherd ' : xe Sliggins, The Reverend Mr.
' The Zephyr ' : see Mivins, Mr.
Thenot : an aged shepherd who tells the fable of the oak
and the briar to Cuddy, the herdsman's boy [Spenser,
Shephtarde's Calendar].
a shepherd who loved Corin for her fidelity to her
lost lover. When she sreir.s about to care fi.r Thenot
m his stead her charm for him vanishes [J. Fletcher,
Faithful Shepherdess].
Theodofred : the father of Roderick [Southey, Roderick].
Theodore : the lover of Honoria, and the hero [Dryden,
Theodore and Honoria,].
— — — a brave but hasty-s;>irited soldier, son of General
Archas [J. Fletcher, Loyal Subject].
son of Lord Clarin«al, and grandson of Alphonao
[Jeplison, Count of Narbonne].
Theodoric : the subject of the tale [Campbell, ThmdoHc].
Theodorick : the hermit of Engaddi ; an exiled noble
[Scott, Talisman].
Theodosius : the hero of a tragedy [Lee, Theodosius],
Theresa : beloved by Mazeppa, a page at the court of her
father, the Count Palatine of Padolia [ Byron, Mazrppa].
Theron : Roderick's favourite dog [Southey, Roderick].
Thersames : hi love with the hnroine [Suckling,
Aglaurd].
Thersites : ' a deformed and scurrilous Grecian ' [Shake
speare, Trottus and Cressida].
Thersytes : an example of how the ' greatest bonders are
not the greatest doers ' [Thertytes : an Inlerludi],
THE 278 THO
Theseus : Duke of Athens [Chaucer, Canterbury Tales :
The Knight' t Tale; also Shakespeare, Midsummer
Night't Dream}.
Thirsil and Thelgon : two gentle youths, the first a poet,
the second a singer [Phineas Fletcher, Purple Jtland].
Thisbe : the heroine of the interlude [Shakespeare, Mid-
tummer Nights Dream].
Thomalin : a shepherd [Spenser, Shephearde't Calendar].
Thomas : the subject of an old miracle play [Incredulity
of Thomat].
Evan : a local bully and farmer, who loses five
sons in a sand storm.
Moxy : wife of Evan Thomas, who takes care of
Bardie when she is rescued from the sea.
— — Watkin : son of Evan and lover of Bunny Llewellyn
[Biackmore, if aid o1 Sker].
Lord : the hero of an old ballad ; Sir Thomas Is
about to marry the ' Brown Girl ' when Fair Elinor
gtabs her [Percy, Religues : Lord Thomat and Fair
Elinv]. •
" Monsieur : Valentine's companion, with whom
Mary is in love [J. Fletcher, Mont. Thomat].
of Reading : one of the characters in a sixteenth
century fiction [Deloney, Thomat of Reading ; or,
the Six Worthy Yeomen of the West].
Sir : a foolish and dogmatic country squire [Crabbe,
The Borough].
Thopas, Sir, or Topas : a sportsman, archer, wrestler and
runner; the subject of a musical burlesque introduced
in the Canterbury Tales [Chaucer, Canterbury Talet :
Chaucer's Tale o] Sir Thopat].
Thornberry, Job : a Penzance brazier, honest and direct
in his dealings. Intended for a type of the upright
English tradesman.
Mary : hU daughter, who marries Frank Rochdale,
the son of Sir Simon Rochdale [Colman the Younger,
John BuU].
Thornburgh. Mm. : a foolish, matchmaking Westmorland
vicar's wife [Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere].
Thome, Dr. : a eountry practitioner, who gives the title
to the book.
- Mary : his daughter, who is subject to many
changes of fortune [Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne].
Thornhill, Sir William : tee Burcheli, Mr.
Squire : a rake, who induced Olivia Primrose to
elope with him, and then discovered that his « false
marriage ' was really valid [Goldsmith, Vicar of Wake-
IM4.
THO 277 TIF
Thornton, Cyril : the hero of a military novel [Hamilton,
CyrvL Thornton].
Thorpe, Isabella : an acquaintance of Catherine Morland's
who flirts with her brother.
— — — John : a low-class University man ranch given to
horses [Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey].
Thoughtless, Miss Betty : a modest and amiable girl, but
unconventional and ignorant of the customs of society,
therefore frequently blundering [Eliza Haywood,
Mitt Betty Thouyhtlesi].
Thoulouse, Raymond, Count ol : a crusader [Scott, Count
Robert of Paris].
Three Kings ol Cologne : the three ' Wise Men ' who
travelled from the East to pay homage to the Infant
Christ. The images shown in the Cathedral of Cologne
are called Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar.
Thrift, Pegffy : Sir Thomas Thrift's orphan child ; her
guardian brings her ur> in the country in absolute
seclusion [Garrick, Country Girl].
Thrummy-Cap : a Northumberland sprite, a ' queer-
looking little auld man '.
Thule, A Princess ol : tee Mackenzie, Sheila.
Thurio : Valentine's rival in Silvia'* affections [Shakespeare,
Tiro Gentlemen ol Verona].
Thwacknra : one of the leading characters in the novel
[Fielding, Tom Jones].
Thyrsis=Arthur Hugh Clough, whom his friend com
memorated in a monody or elegiac poem [Matthew
Arnold, Thyrsis].
a herdsman [Milton, L' Allegro].
Tibbs, Beau : an Impecunious dandy.
— — Mrs. ; his wife, an untidy, out-at-elbows woman,
with remains of beauty and coquettish manners
[Goldsmith, Citizen ol the World].
Tibet Talkapace : waiting-maid to Custance [Udall, Ralph
Roister Doister].
Tibs : an ungainly, ill-dressed man, with a general know
ledge of every subject [Goldsmith, Citizen of the World].
Tiburca : an early Christian mentioned in the Second.
Nun's Tale [Chaucer, Canterbury Tales].
Tiborzio : the commander of the Pisans who attacked
Florence. He was utterly defeated by Luria, the
Moor [R. Browning, Luria].
Tickell, Mark : a friend of Elsie Lovell's [Reeve, ParteiT].
Tickler, Timothy : intended for Kobert Sym, an Edin
burgh lawyer [Wilson, Nodes Ambrotianae].
Tiddler, Tom : see Mopes, Mr. Tom.
Tiffany : maid to Miss Alscrip [Burgoyne, Heiress}.
Tl« 278 TIP
Tigg, Montague : murdered by Jonas Cbuzzlewit [Dickens,
Martin Chuzdewit].
Tighe, Naomi : the heroine of the play [Robertson, School,
1869].
Tilburina : daughter of the Governor of Tilbury Fort, In
love with Whiskerandos. A character which first
occurs in a tragedy [Puff, Spanish Armada ; afterwards
introduced into a burlesque, Sheridan, The Critic].
Tilly Slowboy : tee Slowboy, Tilly.
Tiler, Tom : the subject of a sixteenth century moral
play [Tom Tiler and Hit Wife].
Tflney. Eleanor : sister to Heury Tilney, the lover of
Catherine.
— ^— Henry : the hero, who marries Catherine Morland.
[Jane Austen, Northangar Abbey}. t
Tim, Tiny : Bob Cratchit's lame child [Dickens, Chriitma*
Carol}.
Timias (Sir Walter Raleigh) : King Arthur's squire, who
whilst pretending to a love for Belphoebe (Queen
Elizabeth), carried on an intrigue with Amoret (Eliza
beth Throgmortou) [Spenser, Faery Queenc].
Timms, Corporal : one of Waverley's non-commissioned
officers [Scott, Waverley].
Timon : the first Duke of Chandos [Pope, Moral Etsayt,
Ep. iv.].
Timurkan the Tartar : Emperor of China, slain, after a
usurpation of twenty years, by Zaphimri the ' orphan '
[Murphy, Orphan of China].
Tinderbox, Miss Jenny : a maiden lady who, having looked
too high in the social scale, as regarded a husband,
had, hi the end, to go through life single [Goldsmith,
Citizen of the World].
Tinman, Mark : a retired tradesman whose great desire
is to have local influence. His dealings with his old
friend Smith form the basis of the story [George Mere
dith, House on the Eearh].
Tinsel, Lord : a despicable character who ignored all merit
but that appertaining to blue blood [Knowles, Hundt-
iMdtl
Tin to, Dick : an artist, the son of a Langdirdum tailor.
He occurs in two novels by the same author [Scott, '
Bride of Lammermoor ; St. Ronan't }YeU}.
Tip : tee Dorrit, Edward.
Tiphany : mother of the three kings of Cologne.
Tipkin, Biddy : the original of Lydia Languish. A senti
mental woman who thinks ' it looks so ordinary to
go out at a door to be married ' [Steele, Tender ffut-
TIP 273 TOW
Tippins, Lady : a friend of the Veneerings. A nice old
lady with a big, ugly face [Dickens, Our Mutual Friend},
Tipto, Sir Glorious : an affected and boastful man [Ben
Jonson, New Inn].
Tiptoe : a footman not above suspicion as regards honesty ;
shrewd and lazy [Colman the Younger, Ways and
Meant].
Tirante the White : the hero of a fifteenth century romance
of chivalry.
Titania : the heroine [Black, Strange Adventure* of a Phaeton].
Queen of the Paries and wife of Oberon. Under
the influence of a magic juice she tails in love with
Bottom, the weaver [dhakespeare, Midsummer Night',
Dream].
Titmarsh, Samuel : the chief character in the story [Thac
keray, Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty
Diamond].
Titmouse, Mr. Tittlebat : vulgar, Ignorant, and conceited ;
a liuendraper's assistant who is discovered to be of
good birth [Warren, Ten Thousand a Year],
Titurel : flrat King of Graalburg, he founded a temple
there, as a shrine for the Holy Grail [Arthurian Cycle].
Toby, Uncle : obliged to retire from active service on
account of wounds, ' one of the finest compliments
ever paid to human nature ', according to Ha/.!itt,
and of much greater interest than the nominal hero
of the book [Sterne, Tristram Shandy] ; tee also Shandy,
GipUin.
Titus : according to the poet this was the name of the
penitent thief who had attacked Joseph on his flight
into Egypt [Longfellow, Solden Legend].
Tod, Isabella : the friend and correspondent of Rachel
Pringle [Gait, Ayreshirg Legatees].
Todd, Laurie : the hero of a novel founded on the auto
biography of Grant Thorburn [Gait, Laurie Todd].
Todgers, Mrs. : the keeper of a commercial boarding-
house, with a hard face but kind heart, who befriends
Mercy Chuzzlewit [Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit].
Tom : the ' Portugal Dustman ' who took part against
France in the war of the Spanish Succession [Arbuth-
not, History of John Bull].
an honest man in the service of Mr. Peregrine
Lovel [Townley, High Life Bdow Stairs],
Bowling : see Bowling, Tom.
Brown : see Brown, Tom.
Corinthian : one of the heroes of the *tory [Plerco
Egan, Life in London].
TOM 280 TOR
Tom, Jones : tee Jones, Tom.
Uncle : a faithful negro slave. A native of Mary
land. One Joslah Henson is said to have been the
original of this character [Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Uncle Tom't Cabin'}.
a-Lincoln=the Ked Rose Knight, surnamed the
Boar of England [Richard Johnson, Most Pleasant
History o1 Tom-d- Lincoln}.
a-Thrum : a fairy sprite believed In In mediaeval
times — a little old man.
Tomahourich, Muhme Janet o! : an old sibyl [Scott, Two
Drovers}.
Tomalin : fairy knight related to Oberon. He sided with
Pigwiggen in a combat In which Oberon was supported
by Tom Thumb [Dray ton, Xymphidia}.
Tomboy, Priscilla : a high-spirited, umeducated hoyden of
West Indian birth, sent to London for her education.
She elopes with Captan Slightly [Bickerstaff, 2%e
Romp}.
Tomkins, Joseph : Cromwell's secret envoy, at one time
secretary to the Parliamentary Captain, Desborough
[Scott, Woodstock}.
Tony Lnmpkin : see Lumpkin, Tony.
Toobad, Mr. : ' the Manichasan Millevarian. A man who
constantly Imagines that the devil has come amongst
us [Peacock, Nightmare Abbey}.
Toodle, Mr : an engine-driver, husband of Polly, and
father of Robin.
Mri. PoUy : the foster-mother of little Paul Dom-
bey.
Robin : known as ' Biler ' In his family, but
generally known as ' Bob the Grinder ' [Dickens,
Dombey and Son}.
Toots, Mr. P. : the eldest of Dr. Blimber's pupils. Dull-
witted and overworked, and hopelessly In love with
Florence Dombey [Dickena, Dombey and Son}.
Topaz, Sir : see Thopas, Sir.
Tophas, Sir : 'an affected, blustering, talkative, cowardly
pretender' [Lyly, Endymion}.
Topsy : a slave-girl, quite ignorant as to her parentage
[Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin}.
Tormot : youngest son of Torquil of the Oak [Scott, Fair
Maid of Perth}.
Torquil ol the Oak : chief of the Quhale Clan and a seer,
whose eight sons all took part in the big battle of the
Clans Quhale and Chattan [Scott, Fair Maid of Perth}.
Torre. Sir : brother of Elaine, the ' Lily Maid of Astolaf
Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of (he King : Elaine}.
TOR 281 TRA
Torrismond : the Spanish general who loves Queen
Leonora [Dryden, Spanish Fryar}.
Totterly, Lord : an antiquated fop who aims at appearing
young [Selby, Unfinished Gentleman}.
Touchstone : court jester full of ' quips and cranks and
wanton wiles' [Shakespeare, As You Like If].
Touchwood, Clarissa : In love with Colonel Clifford.
Colonel : the uncle of Clarissa and Major Touch
wood, and father of Sophia.
Major : in love with his cousin Sophia.
Sophia : the Colonel's sister, in love with Major
Touchwood [Dibdin, IVhat Next .«].
. Lady : wife of Lord Touchwood and sister of
Paul Pliant. A woman of low morals, in love with
her husband'8 nephew, Mellefont.
Lord : Mellefont's uncle [Congreve, Double
Dealer}.
Lady Frances : wife of Sir George. An unsophis
ticated, innocent country girl.
Sir Oeorge : the devoted husband of Lady Frances,
and a perfect gentleman [lira. Cowley, BMe'i
Stratagem].
Peregrine : an old East Indian, a relative of the
Mowbrays [Scott, fit. Ronan's WM}.
Touchy, Tom : fond of ' taking the law of everybody '
[Addison, Spectator].
' Tonghey ' : tee Jo.
Toussaint 1'Ouyerture : the negro hero of the story, which
is founded on the tragic career of this would-be liberator
of his country, who had been born a slave [Harriet
Martineau, llour and the Man].
Toutrond, Martin : a Frenchman in London in 1844
[Morier, Martin Toutrond}.
Towlinson, Mr. : a manservant in the Dombey fatally
[Dickens, Dombey and Son}.
Towneley, Lord and Lady : two characters in the comedy
[Vanbrugh and Cibber, Provoked Husband}.
Townly, Colonel : loving Berinthia, and seeking to win her
by exciting her jealousy, he pays attention to her
cousin Amanda, who will have nothing to do with
him [Sheridan, Trip to Scarborough}.
Tox, Miss Lucretia : the friend of Mrs. Chick. She at one
time hoped to become the second Mrs. Dombey
[Dickens, Dombey and Son].
Tozer : one of Paul Dombey's school-fellows, who wore
very high collars [Dickens, Dombey and Son].
Trabb : a prosperous elderly tailor and undertaker [Dickena,
Great Exportation*}.
TRA 282 TRE
Traddles. Thomas : ' the merriest and most miserable of
the boys ' at Salem House [Dickens, David Copper-
ftdd}.
Tradelove : a broker and one of Anne Lovely's guardians
[Mrs. Centlivre, Bold Stroke for a Wife].
Trafflck, Sir Jealous : father of Isabinda, for whom he
provides a Spanish husband, but she prefers an English
one [Mrs. Centlivre, Buty-Body}.
Tram, Tom : the hero of a seventeenth century work of
fiction, at one time very popular [ Mad Prank* of Tom
Tram, Son-in-law to Mother Winter, etc.].
Tramtrist, Sir : the name assumed by Sir Tristram during
his visit to Ireland, whither he went to be healed of the
wounds received In his fight with Sir Marhaus [Mallory,
Bittory of Prince Arthur}.
Tranlo : servant to Lucentlo, Bianca's husband [Shakespeare,
Taming of the Shrew.}
Transfer : an extortionate usurer of whom Sir George
Wealthy borrows money [Foote, The Minor}.
fransome, Harold : loved Esther Lyon, but she did not
return his love.
— — — Mrt. : mother of Harold, secretly married to the
lawyer, Matthew Jermyn [George Eliot, Felix Holt}.
Trapbois : a miser.
Martha : the miser's daughter, who marries Richie
Mouiplies [Scott, Fortune* of Nig<l}.
Travers, Louisa : married to the bigamist, Lord Davenant,
whose first wife was Marianne Dormer.
Sir Edmund : the bachelor uncle and guardian of
Lady Davenant. {An interfering old man who
muddles his niece's matrimonial affairs [Cumberland,
Mytteriau* Butband}.
Tregarva, Paul : the poetic and radical gamekeeper of
Squire Lavington [Charles Kingsley, Teatt}.
Tremendous, Sir : a character in the farce, intended for
the critic, John Dennis [Pope and Gay, Three Bowi
after Marriage} ; tee alto Appius.
Tremor, Lady : wife of Sir Luke. A woman of plebeian birth,
upon which point she was extremely sensitive.
Sir Luke : a coward who made it a rule never to
fight, whatever the provocation [Mrs. Inchbald, Such
Thing* Are}.
Tremydd ap Tremhidydd : a man possessed of abnormally
penetrating sight, who could detect ' a mote In the
sunbeam in any of the four quarters of the world '
[Mabinogion].
Treamor : King of Morven and great-grandfather of
Fingal [Ossian, Fingal}.
TRE 233 TRI
Trent, Frederick : the dissipated, evil-natured brother of
Little NelL
Nell : her poor old grandfather's guardian angel,
as she wanders with him from place to place, and
stands between him and his passion for gambling
[Dickens, Old Curiosity Sfiop].
Tresham, Mr. : the elder Osbaldistone's partner [Scott
Rob Roy],
Richard : tee Witherington.
I. Mildred : a girl of fourteen living with her brother
Thorold. She is betrayed by her lover, the Earl of
Mertoun.
— — — Thorold, Lord : a young man, the sole guardian of
a younger sister, who ia betrayed by his friend and
neighbour [R. Browning, A Slot on the Scutcheon].
Tressilian, Edmund : affianced to Amy Robsart, who
deserts him for the Earl of Leicester, and is sacrificed
to that nobleman's ambition [Scott, Kenilworth].
Trevellyn, Mary : the heroine of the poem [dough, Amourt
de Voyage].
Trevelyan : the hero of a novel [Lady Dacre, Trevelyan}.
Trevisan, Sir : the knight to whom Despair presented a
rope wherewith to hang himself [Spenser, Faery
Queene].
Triamond : the son of Agape and husband of Caaace
[Spenser, Faery Queene].
Triamour, Sir : the hero of an old English romance, pro
bably based on a French one [Early Enylish Romances}.
Tribulation : a Dutch pastor, the dupe of Subtle and Face
[Ben Jonson, Alchemist].
Trifle, Miss Penelope : a pnm and precise old maid.
Sir Penurious : Penelope's brother. A teller of
stupid, pointless stories.
— ^— Sukey : daughter of Sir Penurious. She marries
Mr. Hartop [Poote, The Knights}.
Trilby : an artist's model, in Paris [Du Maurler, Trilby] ;
tee also O'Ferral, Trilby.
Trim, Corporal : Uncle Toby's faithful servant [Sterne,
Tristram Shtmdy].
Trinculo : a jester [Shakespeare, Tempest}.
Tcippet, Beau : bound ' never to draw swoM in any cause '.
Mrs. : his wife, a frivolous woman devoted to
dancing and cards [Garrick, Lying Valet].
Trhtan, Sir : see Tristram, Sir.
Tristram, Sir : a Knight of the Round Table deputed to
fetch Iseult of Brittany home to her affianced husband,
Mark of Cornwall, who was Tristram's uncle. They
both, in error, drink a love philtre and fall in love
TRI 284 TRU
with one another [Mallory, History of Prince Arthur],
This story has been treated by Alfred Tennyson In
Idylls of the King : Launcelot and Elaine ; Guinevere ;
by Matthew Arnold, Trittram and Iseult ; Swinburne,
Sailing of (he Swallow].
Tristram Shandy : tee Shandy, Tristram.
Troil, Magnus : An old udaller with two beautiful daugh
ters. He is the ' Pirate '.
Minna and Brenda : the beautiful daughters of
Magnus Troil, the udaller of Zetland [Scott, Pirate].
Troflus : in love with Cressida, daughter of Chalchas, a
priest. In an exchange of prisoners Cressida becomes
the property of Diomed, and preferring him to Troilus
forsakes the latter [Chaucer, Canterbury Tales ;
Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida].
Trompart : Braggadochio'a squire, a laiy, cunning fellow
[Spenser, Faery Queene].
Troop, Disco : captain of the fishing-boat on which the
millionaire's son goestQsea[Kipling,C'rtptaj/iC'oMra0'«>tt*].
Trolley, Sir John : an old-fashioned English gentleman,
preferring the high standards of domestic virtue
obtaining In his youth to the laser morals of modern
society [Garrick, Son Ton].
Trotter, Job : servant to Mr. Alfred Jingle, too 'cute even
for Sam Wellcr [Dickens, Pickwick Papers}.
Nelly : a fish-wife at old St. Eonan's [Scott, St.
Ronan't Well].
• Trotters ' : see Harris, Mr.
Trotty Veck : tee Veck, Toby.
Trotwood, Miss Betsey : austere, hard-favoured and eccen
tric, but kindly, and a true friend to David, whoa*
great-aunt she is [Dickens, David Copperfteld]
Trorartas : King of the mice [Parnell, Battle of the Frogs
and Mice}.
Troy, Sergeant : the villain who married and then deserted
Bathsheba Everdene [Hardy, Far from the Madding
Crowd].
Trneworth : the friend of Fondlove and brother of Lydia
[Knowles, Love-Chase}.
Trull, Dolly : ' so taken up with stealing hearts ' she has
no time for other thefts [Gay, Beggar's Opera}.
Trulliber, Parson : a most objectionable parson, the exact
opposite to Parson Adams [Fielding, Joseph Andrews}.
Trundle, Mr. : the young man who marries Isabella Wardle
[Dickens, Pickwick Papers].
Trunnion, Commodore Hawser : a one-eyed naval officer
who, upon retiring from active service, fits his house
np like a ship [Smollett, Peregrine Pickle].
TRU 285 TUB
Trusty, Mrs. : landlady of the Queen's Arms, Romford,
who sheltered Bess, the beggar's daughter [Knowles,
Beggar of Bethnal Green].
Tryamour, Sir : a model of chivalry and the hero of an
old metrical romance.
Tryanon : heroine of a fifteenth century romance, and the
bride of Sir Launfal [Chester, Sir Launfal].
Tryphon : the sea-god's doctor [Spenser, faery Qucene].
Tubal : a Jew and the friend of Shylock [Shakespeare,
Merchant of Venice].
Tuck, Friar : the chaplain and steward of Robin Hood
[Scott, Ivanhoe].
Tucker, Dan : the subject of a negro song supposed to
refer to Captain Daniel Tucker of Virginia.
Tug, Tom : the hero of a musical comedietta [Charles
Dibdin, Waterman].
Tulkinghorn, Mr. : a solicitor, and the legal adviser of Sir
.Leicester Dedlock. He is murdered by a French
waiting-maid [Dickens, Bleak House].
Tulliver, Maggie : the heroine, in love with Wakem and
loved by him.
— — — Mr. and Mrs. : father and mother of the hero and
heroine. Mr. Tulliver dies from excitement over *
dispute with Wakem, hia daughter's lover.
— — Tom : Maggie's brother. Both are drowned,
swept down by a tidal wave on the Floss [George Eliot,
Mill on the Floss].
Tupman, Mr. Tracy : a member of the Corresponding
Society of the Pickwick Club, who falls in love with
every pretty girl he meets [Dickens, Pickwick Papers],
Turnbnll, Mr. Thomas : a schoolmaster and smuggler,
known by the name of Tom Turnpenny [Scott, Jied-
gauntM].
Turnpenny, Tom : see Turnbull, Mr. Thomas.
Turpin : a churlish, inhospitable knight who is unknlghted
by King Arthur for his lack of courtesy [Spenser,
Faery Queene].
— — Dick : a noted highwayman who Is introduced
Into the novel [Ainsworth, Rookwood}.
Turqulne, Sir : a valorous knight who at one time held
sixty-four of King Arthur's knighta captive. He was
challenged and slain by Sir Launcelot, who set the
captives free [Mallory, History of Prince Arthur].
Turveydrop, Mr : 'a very gentlemanly man, celebrated
almost everywhere for his deportment '. He was a
dancing-master.
- Prince : his son, named after the Prince Regent.
He married Caddy Jellyby [Dickens, Bleak Souse].
TWA 286 UDO
Twangdillo : a one-legged and one-eyed fiddler [Somer-
vilie, ffoblinol].
Tweedledum=I'rince of Wales ; Tweedledee=Duke of Marl-
borough [J. Byron, in a satirical squib, c. 1750]. Also
twins in ' Lewis Carroll's ' Alice in Wonderland, 1865.
Twigtythe, The Eev. Mr. : a clergyman living at Fas-
thwaite Farm [Scott, Warerley],
Twineall, The Hon. Mr. : a young man who goes to India,
fully expecting to win his way to preferment through
his charm of manner, etc., but always saying the
wrong things, and offending people in their tenderest
•pots, ends by finding himself in prison [Mrs. Inch-
bald, Such Thingt Are}.
Twist, Oliver : a nameless orphan, born in a workhouse,
he makes his way to London and falls into the hands
of thieves. The people whose house he is made to
break into rescue him, to discover that they are his
relatives and natural protectors [Dickens, Oliver
Twist}.
Iwitcher, Jemmy : a character in the play, which the
public afterwards allotted to John, T.arl of Sandwich
[Gay, Beggar's Opera].
Tybalt : in love with Laura, Duke Gondibert's niece
[Davenant, Gondibrrt].
cousin to Juliet. A young and fiery Veronese
[Shakespeare, Romw and Juliit]
Tyler, Wat : an honest blacksmith of Essex, whose daueh-
ter Alice was insulted by the royal tax-collectors.
His etory is made the subject of a tragedy [Southey,
Wat Tyler}.
Tylwyth Teg : a family of beneficent fairies whose delight
it is to benefit humanity [.Vnbinogion].
Tyrrel, Francis : in love with Miss Aubrey, on whose
behalf he fought a duel with Lord Courtland [Cum
berland, Fathionable Lover].
^— Frank : really Martigny, Earl of Etherington, in
love with Clara Mowbray [Scott, St. Ronan's Well].
Tyson, Kate : in love with and marries Frank Cheeney
[Reeve, Parted],
Ubaldo and Bicardo : Honoria, Queen of Hungary, wishing
to tempt Sophia's virtue, sent Ubaldo and Kicardo to
Her. Detecting the object of their visit she had them
put In confinement [Massinger, The Picture].
Udeschini, Cardinal : a snuff-taking ecclesiastic [Harland,
Cardinal's Snuff-box}.
Udolpho : the hero of a romance [Mrs. Radcliffe, Mysteritt
of Ddolpho].
ULF 287 URH
Ulfln : a page [Davenant, Gondiberf].
Ulin : an enchantress who had power over evil doers,
but none over the faithful [Ridley, Tola of the Genii],
UUin's Daughter : the subject of a ballad ; she eloped with
the chief of Ulva's Isle, and was drowned whilst being
rowed over Lochgyle [Campbell, Lord Vttin's Daugh
ter].
Dlric : the son of Werner, who saved the Count of Stralen-
heim from the river Oder only to murder him after
wards in revenge for wrongs received at his bauds
[Byron, Werner],
Ulrica : an old Sybil at Torquilstone; also known as Dame
Urfried [Scott, Ivanhoe}.
—— the mother of Hereward's affianced bride, Bertha.
Also known as Martha [Scott, Count Robert of Paris],
—— unacknowledged daughter of Ernest of Fridberg,
the ' prisoner '. Dressed as a man she aids her father
to escape [Stirling, Prisoner of State].
Ulyssea : King of Ithica. He forms the subject of many
literary productions, notably a play [Rowe, Vlysses],
and a poem [Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses].
Umbriel : a sprite who, upon the loss of her lock of hair,
supplies Belinda with a large supply of sobs and sigh*
and lamentations [Pope, Rape of the Lock].
Dna=' the one true Faith or Truth ', the heroine of the
poem, protected tiiroughout her long wanderings by a
lion [Spenser, Faery Queene].
Uncas : the «on of Chingachcook, surnamed Deer-foot
[Cooper, Last of the Mohicans ; Pathfinder ; and Pioneer],
Uncle Remus : tee Remus, Uncle.
Toby : see Toby, Uncle ; also Shandy, Captain.
Tom : see Tom, Uncle.
Upland, Jack : the hero of a religions song, popular in the
days of Richard II [Wright's Political Song*}.
Urania=the Countess of Pembroke [Sidney, Colin Clout '»
Come Home Again].
Urfried, Dame : see Ulrica.
Urgan : a human child brought up in elfland and restored
to human shape by the sign of the cross being made
thrice upon her forehead [Scott, Lady of the Lake].
Uriel : the great archangel ' regent of the sun ' [Milton,
Paradise Lost ; Longfellow, Golden Logend].
Urien : the foster-father of Madoc. He followed Madoo
to North America [Southey, Madoc}.
Urre, Sir : a Knight of the Round Table whose wounds
were healed by the touch of Sir Launcelot's hands
[Arthurian Cyde].
URS 288 VAL
Ursula : a foolish old duenna who prided herself upon her
dancing [Bickerstaff, Padlock].
Sister : the name by which Lady Margaret Haut-
lieu waa known at St. Bride's [Scott, Cattle Dangerous].
Utha : the beautiful daughter of Herman, betrothed to
Frothal, whose life she saved [Ossian, Carrie- Thura].
Uthal : son of Larthmor, King of Berrathon. ,He de
throned his father, but was killed in fight against
Ossian and Toscar [Ossian, Berrathon].
Utter : father of King Arthur [Geoffrey, History of Britain],
Vainlove : a young man about town [Congreve, Old Bathe-
lor].
Valantia, Count : an absurd creature, In love with the
Marchioness Merida, whom he rn^kes his wife upon
condition that she will undertake not to love him
[Mrs. Inchbald, Child of Nature].
V aides : one of Dr. Faustus's friends, who induces him to
sell his soul to the devil [Marlowe, Dr. Faustus].
Valense, Sir Aymer de : Sir John de Walton's lieutenant at
Douglas Castle [Scott, Cattle Dangerous].
Valentine : one of King Pepin's twin nephews [Valentine
and Orson].
eldest son of Sir Sampson Legend, who feigns
madness to avoid paying his debts [Congreve, Love
for Love].
in love with Cellide, who does not return his love
[J. Fletcher, Mont. Thomas].
a foolish spendthrift [J. Fletcher, Wit Without
Money].
one of the two gentlemen of Verona [Shakespeare,
Two Gentlemen of Verona].
one of the Duke of Illyria's train [Shakespeare,
Twelfth Night].
Valentinian : a man of fine temperament ruined by self-
indulgence [Beaumont and Fletcher, Valentinian].
Valere : betrothed to Angelica, who gives him a picture
from which he is never to part. He loses it at the
gaming table, Angelica, disguised, being the winner of
it In the end the ' gamster ' is cured of his vice
[Mrs. Centlivre, Gameiter].
Valeria : a woman of masculine mind and taates [Mrs.
Centlivre, Basset- Table].
friend of Horatia and sister of Valerius [White-
head, Roman Father].
Valerio : a young Neapolitan married to Evan the [J.
Fletcher, Wlft for a Month].
VAL 289 VAR
Valerias : a young Roman who is a convert to Christianity
[Lockhart, Valeria*}.
the brother of Valeria and in love with his sister's
friend Horatia [Whitehead, Roman Father}.
Valiant-for-Truth : one of Christian's company on his
journey to the Celestial City [Bunyan, Pttgrim't
Progretl].
Valirian : the husband of St. Cecilia, executed for bis
Christianity [Chaucer, Canterbury Talet : Second
Xun'i Tale].
Valliere, The Duchess de la : the heroine of the play [Lytton,
Duchett de la Valliere}.
Valverde : Pizarro's secretary, who is in love with Elvira,
and saves her life [Sheridan, Pitarro}.
Vamp : a bookseller who thought the real merit of a book
lay in its 'get up ' [Poote, Author}.
Van Artevelde, Clara: sister of Philip, the beloved of
Walter d'Arlon [Sir Henry Taylor, Philip Van Arte
velde}.
Vanda : wife of Baldric, who appears before the Lady
Eveline Berenger in the haunted chamber [Scott,
Betrothed}.
Vanderdecken : a character hi the play resuscitated by Sir
Henry Irving [Fitzbald, Flying Dutchman}.
Vandunke : the drunken burgomaster of Bruges [J.
Fletcher, Beggar't Buth].
Vane, Frank : parliamentary candidate in opposition to
Peter Mogg [Sterling, flection].
Vanessa=Esther Vanhomrigh [Swift, Cadmus and Vantsta}.
Vanoc, Sir : one of the Knights of the Round Table, and
Merlin's son [Arthurian Cycle].
Vanwelt, Ian : supposed to be a suitor for the hand of
Rose Flammock [Scott, Betrothed}.
Vapid : said to be Intended by the author for a portrait
of himself [Reynolds, Dramatist].
Varbel : the hungry squire of Count Floreski [Kemble,
Lodoiika].
Varden, Dolly : the daughter of Gabriel, who was over
whelmed with lovers. She married Joe Willet.
- • Gabriel : a Clerkenwell locksmith. A frank and
kindly man, the father of Dolly, who, during the
Gordon riots declined, at the risk of his life, to pick the
lock of Newgate Prison.
• Mn. : Gabriel's wife ; a lady of uncertain temper
[Diekens, Bamaby Rudge}.
Varley, Lady Helen : sister of Hugh Plaiman and niece of
Lady Charlotte WynnsUy [Mrs. Humphry Ward,
Robert Elsmtre].
W.W.F. U
VAR 290 VER
Varney : Master of the Horse to the Earl of Leicester
[Scott, Krnilu-orth].
Vathek : the grandson of Haxonn-al-Raschid, and ninth
Caliph of his race. In anger ' one of his eyes became
so terrible that whoever looked at it either swooned or
died' [Beckford, Vathrk].
Vaudraconr : the hero of a love poem [Wordsworth,
Vaudrafour and Julia}.
Vanghan, Cecilia: the heroine [Longfellow, Kavannoh].
Vaux, Roland de : the knight who broke the spell which
condemned Gyneth, King Arthur's daughter, to an
enchanted sleep which lasted 500 years [Scott,
Bridal of Triermain].
Vavasour : a character in the novel [Beaconsfield, Ton
er ed].
Veal, Mrs. : a fictitious person whom Defoe pretended had
appeared before Mrs. Bargrave of Canterbury the
day following her (Mrs. Veal's) death [prefixed by
Defoe to Drelincourt's Consolation* Against the fear of
Death'].
Veechio, Peter : a teacher of music and of Latin [J. Fletcher,
Changes].
Veck, Toftjr : ticket-porter and odd job man known as
Trotty [Dickons, Citime*].
Velinspeck : the manager of a provincial theatre to whom
Stuffy applies for the post of prompter [Matthews,
At Home}.
Velvet. The Rev. Morphine : a preacher who fed ' his
audience with inilk well sugared ' [Warren, Ten Thou
sand a year].
Veneering, Mr. and Mrs. : a wealthy parvenu and his
wife [Dickens, Our Mutual Friend].
Venner. Elsie : the subject of the story. Her mother
dies at Elsie's birth, bitten by a ratllrsrmke, and the
virus enters her child's nature, producing most weird
results [Holmes, Elsie Venner].
Ventidins : Marc Antony's general [Drydon, All for Love],
Venus, Mr. : a bird and animal stuffer living iu Clerken-
well [Dickens, Our Mutual Friend].
Verdant Green : see Green, Verdant.
Verdone : Champernal's nephew [J. Fletcher, Little French
Lawyer}.
Verdugo : a captain serving under the Governor of
Segovia [J. Fletcher, Pilyriml
Vere, Lady Clara Vere de : the subject o a poem [Alfred
Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere].
Verges : a watchman of the old school [Shakespeare. Much
Ad9 About Nothing]
VER 291 VIN
Veriaopht, Lord Frederick : a dissipated young nobleman,
the friend of Sir Mulberry Hawk [Dickens, Nicholas
Niddeby}.
Veraon, Diana : the beautiful mistress of Osbaldistone
Hall, who, in secret, favoured the cause of the Stuarts
[Scott, Kob Roy}.
Versatile, Sir George : an amiable man, but weak, so that
he varies according to the company he is in. He
marries Maria Delaval [Holcroft, He't Much to Mame}.
Vertaigne : the father of Lamira and Beaupre [J. Fletcher,
Little French Lawyer].
Vesey, Georgina : pretty, vain, and shallow. Married to
Sir Frederick Blount.
Sir John : a poor and worldly baronet, father of
Georgiua. He wanted his daughter to marry Alfred
Evelyn for his money [Lytton, Money].
Vibrate, Lady : the extravagant, frivolous, excitable wife
of Lord Vibrate.
Lady Jane : their daughter ; good and amiable.
She marries Delaval.
Lord : a shilly-shallying, irresolute man. [Holcroft,
ffe't Much to Blame}.
Vicar ol Bray : t?e Bray, Vicar of.
of Wakefleld : see Primrose, Rer. Dr.
of Wrexhill : tee Wrexhill, Vicar of.
Victor Amadeus : the fierce, unscrupulous King of Sar
dinia, who abdicated in favour of his son, and then
tried to go back on his act [R. Browning, King Victor
and King Charlet Emmanuel].
Victoria, Donna : the wife of Don Carlos IMrs. Cowley,
Hold Stroke for a Hutband}.
Virtvrian: the hero; a student of Alcala [Longfellow,
iil>ani*h Student].
Videna : wife of Gorboduc and the mother of Ferrex and
Porrex [Norton and Buckhurst, Gorboduc].
Villers, Mr. : a gentleman professing an unbounded con
tempt for all womankind [Mrs.Cowley ,Btlle's Stratagem],
Villiard : a villain. Chark-s Belmont rescued Fidelia from
his clutches [Edward Moore, Foundling].
Vincent, Jenkin : an apprentice known as ' Jin Vin ', in
love with Margaret Ramsay [Scott, Fortune* of Xigel].
Vincentio : Duke of Vienna, mho, assuming the guise of
a monk, watches secretly the practices of his various
officers and servants [Shakespeare, Meaiure lor
Mrature].
- betrothed to Evadne. He listens to false tale* M
to her virtue, and cast* her off, but eventually Is
convinced of his mistake and marrie* her [Shell,
Evadnt ; or, The Statue}.
YIN 292 VIR
Vincentio, Don : a musical devotee who was much irritated
by Olivia <ie Zuniga asserting that of all instruments
the Jew's harp was the best [Mrs. Cowley, Bold Streto
for a Jfusbiind].
Vincy, Frederick : brother of Rosamond, whose character
is ruined by the expectation of wealth.
Rotamond : the shallow, selfish and obstinate
girl who marries Lydgate, the young doctor [George
Eliot, Middleman*].
Viola : one of the two daughters of Archas ' the loyal
subject ' [J. Fletcher, Loyal Subject],
one of the poet's most attractive heroines ; un
selfish, loyal, brave [Shakespeare, Twelfth Night].
Vioknte : the reputed mother of Pompilia, who is killed
by Guido Franceschini [B. Browning, Ring and th«
Book].
Donna : intended for a nun, rihe falls in love with
Don Felix and marries him [Mrs. Centllvre, The
Wonder].
betrothed to Don Alonzo, but forced by the king
to marry Henriquey. The latter is killed in battle,
so the lovers come together at last [Dryden, Don
Sebastian].
reputed wife of Don Henrique [J. Fletcher, Spanish
Curate].
one of tht heroines. A combination of grace and
nobility, energy and courage [Lytton, My Hovel],
Violet : the wilful and impulsive but lovable heroine of
the novel [Black, Madcap Violet].
the ward of Lady Arundel and in love with Norman,
a 'sea-captain', who turns out to be her guardian's
son by a former marriage [Lytton, Sea-Captain].
Violetta : a Portuguese lady married to Belneld, who
deserts her. Being shipwrecked and cast ashore near
her husband's estate, his villainy is discovered and the
husband and wife are reconciled [Cumberland, Brothers].
Viper, Dr. : an Irish clergyman of the name of Jackson,
against whom the dramatist harboured a grudge for
suppressing his play ' The Trip to Calais ' [Foote,
Cap whin].
Vipont : a Knight of St. John [Scott, Ivanhoe].
Virgilia : in the play Virgilia is the wife of Ooriolanos ;
historically this is incorrect, as Yolumnia was her
name [Shakespeare, Corialanut].
Virginia : tee Appius and Virginia.
Virginia! : father of the Roman maiden Virginia, whom he
killed with his own hand rather than have her delivered
up to Appius as his slave [Knowles, Yirginiut ;
VIR 293 WAG
Macaulay, Layt of Ancient Rome; Virginia} and many
more.
Virolet: the hero, married to both Juliana and Martia
[J. Fletcher, Double Marriage].
Tittoria : the prima donna, formerly known as Sandra
Bellonl. She joins in the intrigues of the Italian
Kevolution of 1848 and marries a noble Italian, Carlo
Ammiani, who is killed [George Meredith, VUtoria}.
Vivian Grey : tee Grey, Vivian.
Viviane : daughter of Dyonas. Merlin fell in love with
her, and she imprisoned him in the forest of Brec6-
liande. She is generally known as the ' Lady of the
Lake' [Merlin}.
Vivien : tried unsuccessfully to seduce King Arthur, but
induced Merlin to tell her the secret of his power,
which, having learnt, she used against himself [Alfred
Tennyson, Idylls oj the King : Vivien].
Voadicia or Boadicea : the British ' warrior Queen ' who
defied the Romans, but was at last defeated by Sue
tonius Paulinus, and took poison [Drayton, 1'olyolbion ;
Cowper, ISoadieea],
Volante : witty and full of life, and in love with Count
Montalbaa [Tobin, Honeymoon],
Volpone : a rich Venetian nobleman, by character a crafty
hypocrite [Ben Jonson, Volpone; or, The Fox}.
Volscius, Prince : in love with Parthenope, and in a dis
pute with Prince Prettyman he champions her beauty
as against that of Cloris [Duke of Buckingham, He-
heartal}.
Voltimand : a courtier at Elsinore [Shakespeare, Hamltt],
Volaninia : Shakespeare gives this as the name of the
hero's mother; historically it was that of his wife
[Shakespeare, Coriolanut].
Vorti««rn and Eowena : the hero and heroine of a drama
which the author tried to pass off as the work of
Slvakespcare [Ireland, Vortigern and Rowcna].
Vox, Valentine : the ventriloquist hero of the novel [Cock-
ton, Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist}.
Vrfcnce, King : a Knight of the Round Table, married to
Arthur's half-sister Morgan le Fay [Mallory, Uitlory
o/ Prince Arthur}.
Vyet, Childe : the hero of a tragic ballad printed by Maid-
ment, Buchan and Jamieson.
Wabun : the son of Mudjekeewis [Longfellow, Hiawatha}.
Wackbairn, Mr. : the schoolmaster at Libberton [Scott,
Heart of Midlothian}.
WAG 294 WAL
Wackles, Mrs. : owner of a small day-school for girla at
Chelsea.
The Mitief : her daughters, who assist her in her
educational labours [Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop].
Waddell, Major : a retired Indian officer who marries
Bell Black [Susan E. Ferrier, Inheritance].
Wade, Miss : a self-tormenting, unhappy-tempered woman,
who entices Tattycoram away from the Meagleses
[Dickens, Little Dorr it].
Wadman, Widow : seta her cap at Uncle Toby [Sterne,
Tristram Shandy}.
Wagner : servant and friend of Faustus [Marlowe, Dr.
Faustus].
Waife, Gentleman : an old man who, to screen a worthless
eon, undergoes a sentence of transportation and the
sti(?ma of crime [Lytton, What Will He Do With It }].
Waitwell : Edward Mirabell's footman, who makes up as
Sir Roland and makes love to Lady Wishfort [Cou-
greve, Way of the World].
WakeSeld, Harry : the English drover who is killed by
Robin Oig [Scott, Two Drovert].
— — Vicar of : tee Primrose, Rev. Doctor.
Wakem, Philip : in love with Maggie Tulliver [George
p:iiot, Mai on the Flos»].
Wakeman, Sir George : physician to Queen Henrietta
Maria [Scott, Peveril of the Peak].
Waldbourg, Count : married to Adelaide, who after a time
eloped. Waldbourg then led a roving life and was only
known as ' the stranger'. In his wanderings he met
/ his contrite wife and they were reconciled [B. Thomp
son, The Stranger].
Waldeck, Martin : a miner and the hero of Lovel's story
[Scott. Antiquary].
Waldegraye, Florinda : the pampered child of Lady Eliza
beth Waldegrave and step-daughter to the Chief of
Glenroy. Beautiful but unprincipled and pleasure-
loving.
* Lady Elizabeth : an affected, insincere and extrava
gant woman, who became the second wife of the
Chief of Glenroy [Susan E. Ferrier, Destiny].
i Henry : In command of the British forces who
aided in the extirpation of the Snake Indians.
. Henry, the Younger : handed over to Albert of
Wyoming, and afterwards married to Gertrude.
. Julia : wife of Henry. Bound, together with her
child, to a tree, but released and cared for by one of the
Indians. She died but her child was saved [Campbell,
Gertrude of Wyoming].
WAL 295 WAR
Walkingshaw, Miss : mU tress of Charles Edward, the
Young Pretender [Scott, Redgauntltt}.
Waller : the lover, and afterwards the husband of Widow
Green's maid, Lydia [Kuowles, Love Chafe].
Walley, Richard : a regicide [Scott, Peveril of the Peak}.
Walmers, Master Harry : a little boy of eight, who falls
in love with a cousin of six and sets out with her for
Gretna Green [Dickens, Holly Tree}.
Walsingham : betrothed to Helen Mowbray. He believes
her faithless and breaks off the connexion, then
discovers he has wrongfully accused her, and they
marry [Knowles, Woman't Wit],
Walter : Marquis of Saluzzo, married to Grisilda, the
daughter of a peasant [Chaucer, Canterbury Talet :
The Clerk't Tale].
Master : the Earl of Rochdale and father of Julia,
to whom he had acted as guardian [Knowles, Hunch-
bark].
of Varila: a vassal of the Landgrave Lewis [Charles
Kiugsley, Saint'* Tragedy].
Waltheof, Father : a grey friar — the Duchess of Rothesay's
Confessor [Scott, Fair Alaid oj Perth].
Wamba : Cedric the Saxon's jester [Scott, Ivanhoe}.
Wandering Jew : tee Jew, The Wandering.
Warden, Michael : good-looking, thoughtless and extrava
gant, he loved Marion Jeddler, and married her
[Dickens, Battle of Life].
- Henry : alia* Henry Wellwood, a protestant
preacher [Scott, Monastery].
W anile, Mr. : of Manor Farm, Dingley Dell. A friend of
Mr. Pickwick and Hospitality personified.
—— Emily : his daughter, who marries Mr. Trundle.
" Jiabella : another daughter, who marries Mr.
Snod grass.
Rachatl : his sister, who elopes with Mr. Jingle
[Dickens, Pickwick Paper*].
Waring = Mr. Alfred Domett, a friend of the poet's [R.
Browning, Waring],
Sir Walter : an incompetent Justice of the Peace
who was, in his judgments, swayed by his personal
leanings [Dudley, Woodman].
Warman : Robin Hood's treacherous steward, who gave
information against him to his uncle, Prior Gilbert
Hood [Skelton, Do'imfall of Robert, Earl of Huntinyton].
Warner : the steward of Sir Charles Cropland [Colman the
Younger, Poor Oentleman].
- Sybil : the heroine of the romance [Lytton, Sybil
Warntr],
WAR 296 WEQ
Warren, Widow : a widow of forty, aping the manners of
a girl [Holcroft, Road to Ruin].
Warrington, Capt George : a barrister, the true friend of
Arthnr Pendennis. [Thackeray, Pendennit].
Madam Esmond : mother of the Virginians, who
ruled like a queen on her own estate in Virginia
[Thackeray, Virginian*].
Wart, Thomas : one of Falstaffs recruits [Shakespeare,
Henry IV, pt ii.].
Warwick, Diana : a beautiful Irish girl who, married to an
unsympathetic husband, ia tempted to live her own
life apart from him, meddles in politics, and becomes
the talk of the town. In the end she finds rest for
head and heart in a happy second marriage [George
Meredith, Diana of Oie Crotncayi].
Wasp : a character supposed to have -been acted by the
author himself [Ben Jonson, Alehemitt],
Wat Tyler : tee Tyler, Wat.
Waterproof, Will : the subject of a poem [Alfred Tenny
son, Will Waterproof t Lyrical Monologue].
Waters, Childe : the subject of an ancient ballad, which
tells of a much-wronged woman who follows her be
trayer in the guise of a page [Percy, Reliques : Childt
Waters].
—— Yoong : a ballad supposed to refer to the history of
the Earl of Murray, who was murdered by the Earl of
Huntley to 1592 [Percy, Rdigun : Toung
Water,].
Wattle, Captain : one of the characters to a ballad [Dibdto,
Captain Wattle and Mist Roe],
Warerley, Capt. Edward : the hero, who entered the service
of the young chevalier. He marries Rose Bradwar-
dine.
Richard : Edward Waverley** father [Scott,
Waverley].
Wayland, Launcelot = Wayland Smith. A farrier to the
vale of Whitehorse [Scott, EenUirorth].
Wealthy, Sir George : son of Sir William, who first act*
as protector to, and then marries, his cousin Lucy
Wealthy.
Sir William : a city merchant whose only son is a
spendtliirft [Foot*, The Minor].
Weazel, Timothy : an attorney who acts as Penruddock's
agent [Cumberland, Wheel of fortune],
' Weevle ' : tee Jobling, Tony.
Wegg, Silas : a dishonourable ballad-monger and fruit-
seller engaged by Mr. Boffin to read aloud to him
[Dickens, Our Mutual Friend}.
WEI 297
Weir, Major : Sir Robert Redgauntlefs pet baboon [Scott,
Rfdgaunllct}.
Weisspriess. Captain : a famous duelling captain in the
Austrian army. A mixture of many passions, bad and
good [George Meredith, Vittoria].
Wellord : a suitor for the hand of the ' Scornful Lady '
[Beaumont and Fletcher, Scornful Lady].
Wellborn, Francis : son of Sir John, the much respected
and wealthy Northamptonshire landowner. Francis
does his best to squander his patrimony, but reforms
and enters the army [Massmger, New Way to Pay Old
Debtt].
Weller, Samuel : boots at the White Hart Inn. Here he
meets Mr. Pickwick, who, liking his looks, engages him
as his servant. His subsequent devotion to his master
make him invaluable to that gentleman.
— — Suian : Sam's step-mother, formerly Mrs. Clarke.
Her character made old Tony warn his son to ' beware
o* widders all your life '.
• Tony : father of Sam ; a heavy, mottle-faced stage-
coachman plying between London and Dorking
[Dickens, Pickwick Paper*].
Wemmuck John : Mr. Jaggers's confidential clerk, noted
for hi« ' castle ' at Walworth [Dickens, Great Expecta
tion*].
Wendover, Roger : the scholarly but cynical squire of
Murewell ; first the enemy, afterwards the friend of
Robert Elamere [Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere].
Wenlock, Wild : a relative of Sir Hugo de Lacy, constable
of Chester. He is beheaded by the rebels [Scott,
Betrothed],
Wenonah : daughter of Nokomis and mother of Hiawatha
[Longfellow, Hiawatha].
Wentworth = George Canning, the English statesman
[Ward, De Vere; or, Man of Independence].
Captain : a naval officer. The lover and after
wards husband of Anne Elliot [Jane Austen, Pertuation],
Eva : a pure and noble woman deceived by her
lover, De Courcy [Maturin, Women].
Cecilia, Dora and Leonora : the aunts of the
Perpetual Curate.
Jack : the curate's handsome, clever, but un
principled eldest brother.
Rev. Frank C. : the Perpetual Curate of St. Roques',
shocking the old-fashioned inhabitants of Carlingford
by his High-Church practices, but winning their
respect and affection at last by his unswerving devo
tion to duty. He becomes rector of Carlingford.
WEN 298 WKI
Wentworth, Rev. Gerald : the Rector of Wentworth, who goes
over to Rome.
Squire : the father of the Perpetual Curate [Mrs.
Oliphant, Chronicle* of Carlingford : Perpetual Cwate}.
Werner : Count of Siegendorf, and father of Ulric. For
twelve years he wanders the world, a beggar, through
the enmity of Count Stralenheim. At last he robs
his enemy, who is murdered by Ulric the very next
day [Byron, Werner].
Western, Sophia : virtuous and beautiful, she Is the good
angel of Tom Jones, whom she marries.
Squire : a jovial, ignorant, fox-hunting country
gentleman, devoted to his daughter Sophia [Fielding,
Tom Jonet].
Westlock, John : at one time pupil of Mr. Pecksniff, he
marries Ruth Pinch, Tom's sister [Dickens, Martin
Cfiuzdewit].
Weston, Mr. : the kindly husband of ' poor Miss Taylor ',
Emma's governess and friend.
Mr». : had been Emma's governess and remained
her friend. She was step-mother to Frank Churchill
[Jane Austen, Emma}.
Wetheral, Stephen : surnamed ' Stephen Steelheart ', a
follower of Lord Waldemar Fitzurse [Scott, Ivanho--}.
Weyburn, Matthew : known very commonly as ' Matey '
Weyburn. The private secretary of Lord Ormont,
who elopes with Lady Ormont, with whom he had been
in love when a schoolboy [George Meredith, Lord
Ormont and Hit Aminta}.
Whang : a Chinese miller who by constant economy had
amassed considerable wealth. The story tells how
his greed for more resulted hi the loss of th« whole
[Goldsmith, Citizen of the World].
Whiffers, Mr. : a footman who is one of the guests at the
'swarry' to which Sam Weller is invited at Bath
[Dickens, Pickwick Papert].
Whiffle, Captain : a fop adorned hi ' silk, lace, and diamond
buckles ' [Smollett, Roderick Random].
Wkimple, Mrs. : a lodging-house keeper at Mill Pond
Bank, Chinks's Basin [Dickens, Great Expectation*].
Whimsey : a kind-hearted, funny old man, the father of
Charlotte and ' Young ' Whimsey.
Charlotte : a pretty girl, in love with Monford
fCobb, Pirtt Floor}.
Whisker : Mr. Garland's pony [Dickens, Old. Curioiity
Shop].
Whiskerandos, Don Perolo : the lover of Tilburina [Puff,
Spanith Armada, embodied by Sheridan in The Critic].
WHI 299 W1L
White Lady of Avenvel : tee Avenel.
Whitecrait, Dame : John's pretty wife.
John : Innkeeper at Altringham [Scott, Peveril
of the Peak}.
Whitford, Vernon : a relation of Sir Willoughby Patterned
who lives at Patterne Hall. An athlete, a student, and
a keen observer He falls in love with Clara Middleton
with happy results [George Meredith, The
Sgoist}.
Whittle, Thomas : an old man who courts a young widow
of twenty -three, and, in order to achieve his purpose,
tries to assume the garb and airs of a young coxcomb
[Garrick, Irish Widow}.
Wickfleld, Agnes : the daughter of a Canterbury lawyer,
and his housekeeper. A woman of sterling character,
who becomes the second Mrs. David Copperfield.
— — — Mr. : Miss Betsey Trotwood's legal adviser, who is
almost ruined by his dishonest clerk, Uriah Heep
[Dickens, David Copperfield}.
Wickham, Mrs. : the wife of a waiter, and one of Paul
Dombey's nurses [Dickens, Dombey and Son}.
Widdrington, Roger : the gallant squire, who, ' when his
legs were smitten oil, he fought upon his stumps '
[Chevy Chate}.
Wite of Bath : one of the pilgrims who tells one of the
' Tales ' [Chaucer, Canterbury Tale* ; also the
subject of a comedy, Gay, Wile of Satb}.
The : the subject of a tragedy [Knowles, The Wife}.
Wigalois : the son of one of the Knights of the Round
Table [Wiyaloit; or, The Knight of the Wheel}.
WQd Boar of Ardennes = William de la Marck [Scott,
Quint in Duncard].
Jonathan : a heartless villain who had six wives—
both Defoe and Fielding based romances on the story
of his life.
Wildair, Sir Harry : a gay young rake that the author twice
takes as his hero [Farquhar, Sir Harry WHdair, and
The Conttant Couple}.
Wildenhaim, Amelia : the baron's daughter.
— — — Baron : seduces a girl in his youth, then leave*
her to starve. Years afterwards their child, grown up,
begs of him in the streets. This leads to his marrying
the woman he had wronged. [ilr3. Inchbald,
Lover's Vows}.
Wildfire, Madge : the mad daughter of Madge Murdochson
IScott, Heart of Midlothian}.
Wilding, Jack : a young Oxonian, the hero of the comedy
[Foote, The Liar}.
WIL 300 WIL
Wflding, Maria : the clever and sprightly daughter of Sir
Jasper, in love with Beaufort.
Sir Jasper : a wealthy fox-hunting squire ; very
ignorant.
Toung : Sir Jasper's son [Murphy, Citizen}.
— — the leading character, often taken by Garrick In
his version of this play, which he called ' The Game-
ttcri' [Shirley, The Gamester].
Wfldrake : a regular country squire, fond of horses and
dogs, and unconsciously of his old playmate, Constance
Fondlove, whom he marries [Knowles, Love-
Chase].
Roger : a Royalist, and a ne'er-do-weel [Scott,
Woodstock],
Wilier, Bella : wayward, wilful and giddy, but cured of her
faults by her love for John Harmon.
- Lavinia : Bella's younger sister ; a lharp and
saucy girl.
- JUrs. : Reginald's tall, angular, domineering wife,
- Reginald : known as ' the cherub ', a spiritless,
hen-pecked clerk [Dickens, Our Mutual friend].
Willord : secretary to Sir Edward Mortimer, and in love
with the poacher's daughter, Barbara Rawbold. He
detects a crime committed by Mortimer, years before,
and flies from his presence, only to have his footsteps
dogged from place to place [Colman the Younger, Iron
Chest].
in love with his sister's companion, Emily, whom
he marries, against the wishes of his father [Dudley,
Woodman].
Lord : son of Lord Woodville, to love with the
Beggar's daughter of Bethnal Green. She proved
to be his cousin [Knowles, Beggar of Bethnal Green],
- : he desired ' the finest hound, the finest horse, and
the finest wife in the three kingdoms '. He was for
long supposed to be the Earl of Rochdale, but he
proved to be a nobody and the Hunchback was th«
Earl [Knowles, Hunchback].
Wilfred : the ' fool ' amongst the six sons of Sir Hildebrand
Osbaldistone [Scott, Rob Roy].
Wilkins, Peter : a mariner cast on a desert shore frequented
by a winged race called glumms and gawreys, whose
wings served them as raiment. Peter marries a
gawrey called Youwarkee [Pultock, Voyage of Peter
Wilkins].
Will aad Jean : a touching story of which these two, Willie
Gairlace and Jeanie Miller, are the hero and heroine
[Macneill, WOl and Jean].
WIL 301 WIL
Willet, Joe : the son of John ; a flue young man, who
enlists, and In the end marries Dolly Varden, the
locksmith's daughter.
John : landlord of the Maypole Inn, Chigwell,
frequented by many of the characters in the story
[Dickens, Bcamaby Rudge}.
William : a card-playing footman In the service of Lore-
more, who courts Muslin, a lady's-maid [Murphy,
Way to Keep Him}.
• the hero of an old English romance of which the
authorship is unknown. It probably dates from about
the middle of the fourteenth century [William and the
Werwolf].
and Margaret : the subjects of a ballad [Mallet,
William and Margaret].
Lord : the subject of a ballad. He drowns his
brother's orphan child that he himself may inherit
the property, and is afterwards drawn under the
water himself by a mysterious child's hand [Southey,
Lord William].
of Cloudesley : an outlaw who dwelt near Carlisle
with his wife Alyce and his ' children three '. He was
a boon companion of Adam Bell and Clym of the
Clough [Percy, Religruei : Adam ScU, Clym of tht
Clough, and William of Cloudctley}.
ol Goldsborough : a friend and companion of
Robin Hood [tee (Jrafton, Olde and Ancient Pamphlet}.
Williams, Caleb : a man of ' insatiable, incessant curiosity '.
who discovers that his noble master, Falkland, haj
committed a murder in the past, and wins his con
fession from him, but then becomes the victim of the
murderer's suspicions [Godwin, Caleb William*].
Willie and May Margaret: the characters in a ballad.
Willie gets drowned whilst crossing the Clyde to visit
May Margaret [Drowned Lover].
Battlin' Roarin' : the hero of a Scottish song
[RaUlin- Roarin1 Willie].
Wandering : the hero of a song [Bums, Wandering
Willie].
Wandering : the blind fiddler [Scott, Redfavnt-
let}.
Willis, Kitty : a girl of no reputation who at the instiga
tion of Saville impersonates Lady Francis at a mas
querade so as to deceive Courtall [Mrs. Cowley, Belli? $
Stratagem].
Willmore : a young rake who finds vice attractive though
' naughty ' ; he is the hero of the play [Mrs. Aphra
Behn, The Rover].
WIL 302 WIT
Willonghby, Mr.: beloved by Marianne Dashwood, but
behaving badly to her, she married another (Colonel
Brandon), and he married Sophie Grey for her money
[Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility].
Sir Clement : the Insolent admirer of Evelina
[Fanny Burney, Evelina}.
Willy : a shepherd in whom Thomalin confides [Spenser,
Shepheard"s Calendar].
Wilmot : there are three characters bearing this name
in the tragedy [Lillo, Fatal Curiosity].
Arabella : the beloved of George Primrose, the
Vicar's eldest son [Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakrfitld].
Wilsa : a mulatto girl [Scott, Fortunes of A'iyrl].
Wilson, Andrew : a smuggler ; the friend of Gcordie
Robertson [Scott, Heart of Midlothian].
Wilton, Ralph de : accepted lover of Lady Clare [Scott,
Mam, ion}.
Wily Beguilde : the hero of a ' pleasant comedie ' [Dodsley's
Old Plays; Wily Beguilde].
Wimble, Will : ' well versed in the little handicrafts of an
idle man' [Addison, Spectator, Essays 108,122, 131,
239, etc.].
Winifreda : the subject of a ' beautiful address to conjugal
love ' [Percy, Reliqur* : Winifreda].
Winkle, Nathaniel : a thorough cockney in the matter of
sports. He marries Arabella Allen.
Mr. : a Birmingham Wharfinger, father of
Nathaniel [Dickens, Pirku'ick Papers].
Rip Van : see Rip Van Winkle.
Winnie, Annie : one of the two old sibyls present at the
death of Alice Gray [Scott, Bride of Lammermoor}.
Wintersen, Count : brother of Baron Steinfort ' the stranger '.
Counttsg : his wife, and Baron Steiufort's confidant
[B. Thompson, The Stranger].
Winterton, Adam: Sir Edward Mortimer's faithful old
steward, who had an unlimited admiration for liis
master [Colman the Younger, Iron Chest].
Winthrop, Dolly : Silas Marner's kindly neighbour, who
helps him with little Eppie [George Eliot, Silas Marmr].
Wishfort, Lady : a witty but vain woman, the widow of
Sir Jonathan [Congreve, Way of the World].
Witch of Atlas : the heroine of a wild, fanciful and brilliant
poem [Shelley, Witch of Allot].
of Edmonton : see Sawyer, Mother.
of Wokey, The : the subject of a ballad published
in 1756 and afterwards embellished by Shenstone
[Witrh of Wokey].
The : the heroine of a play [Middleton, The Witch].
WIT 303 WOO
Witherdea, Mr. : a short, active, chubby little noUry
[Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop].
Witherington, General : the real name of Richard Tresham,
who also goes under the name of Middleman.
Rirhard : his son [Scott, Surgeon's DaugUer}.
Withrington, Roger : tee Widdrington, Roger.
Wititterly, Mr. Henry : a man much given to boasting of
his grand acquaintances. ,
Mrs. Julia : the person with whom Kate Nickleby
lives as companion. Underbred but aping the airs
of the aristocracy [Dickens, Nicholat Nickleby}.
Wittol, Sir Joseph : an ignorant, foolish man [Congreve,
Old Bachelor}.
Witwould, Sir Jerry «• Jeremy Collier [Thomas Brown,
Stage Beaux Totted in a Blanket}.
Anthony : Sir Wilful's half-brother.
Sir Wilful : a Shropshire man, shy and obstinate,
but friendly when In his cupsfCongreve, Way of theWorld].
Wobbler, Mr. : a clerk in the secretarial department of
the Circumlocution Office [Dickens, little Dorrit}.
Wodehouse, Lucy : the heroine, who first acting as sister
of Mercy In the curate's parish, afterwards becomes
his wife.
Tom : a disreputable ne'er-do-weel, the brother of
Lucy [Mrs. Oliphant, Chronicles of Carlingford : Per-
•prtual Curate}.
Woodcock, Adam : Lady Mary Avenel's falconer, who takes
the part of the ' abbot of Unreason ' in the revels [Scott,
The Abbot}.
Justice : a testy, gouty old country gentleman,
who made a point of disagreeing with his atetcr,
Deborah, his housekeeper.
Lueinda : his merry, lively daughter [Bickerstaff,
Love in a Village}.
Woodcourt, Allan : the doctor who married Esther Sum-
rnerson [Dickens, Blenk Route}.
Woodhouse, Emma : the heroine, who marries Mr.
Knightley.
• Mr. : Emma's father — an amiable, simple hypo
chondriac, whose hospitable impulses are always
checked by fears for his friends' digestions [Jane Austen,
Kmma}.
Woodseer, Qower : son of a minister and bootmaker in
Whitechapel, who wanders, almost penniless, but
thinking ' philosophy ', over England and the Continent.
The ntterer of many wise sayings. A character said to be
founded on that of R. L. Stevenson [George Meredith,
The Amazing Marriage].
WOO 304 WRO
Woodvill, John : the hero of the tragedy [Lamb, John
WoodvUl].
Woodville, Harry : a gambler who injured his friond
Penruddock by superseding him in the affections
of his sweetheart.
Henry : his son, a captain ; a brave and noble
soldier who loved Emily Tempest, and to whom Pen-
ruddock makes over all the deeds, bonds, etc., his
father had lost hi gambling.
Mrg. : wife of Harry, previously betrothed to
Roderick Penruddock [Cumberland, Wheel of Fortune}.
Lord : a friend of General Brown's [Scott, Tapet-
tried Chamber].
Oliria : daughter of Sir James. She was left la
the guardianship of a man who, to secure her fortune
to himself, shut her up in a convent in Paris. Leontine
Crocker saves and marries her [Goldsmith, Qood-Natured
Mmt\
Worldly- Wiseman, Mr. : tries to dissuade Christian from
continuing his journey to the Celestial City [Bunyan,
Pilyrim'i Presets].
Worthington, Emily : the lieutenant's lovely daughter,
who, after indignantly rejecting dishonourable pro
posals from Sir Charles Cropland, becomes the wife
of Prank Bramble.
Lieutenant : a poor, disabled and very proud
officer on half pay [Colman the Younger, Poor Gentle
man].
Worthy : he loves Melinda, who after tormenting him for
a year consent* to become his wife [Farquhar, Recruit
ing Officer}.
Lord : redeems Lady Neveller from her love of
play and marries her [Mrs. Centlivre, Sastet- Table],
Wrangle, Mr. Caleb : a meek young man, very much under
the thumb of a fashionable wife.
Mr* . : daughter of Sir Miles Mowbray. A nagging,
shrewish, contradictious woman [Cumberland, Firtt
Love}.
Wray, Enoch : the blind and poor but resigned and pious
' patriarch ' [Crabbe, Village Patriarch].
Wrayburne. Eugene : indolent and gloomy, and hating his
profession, which is that of a barrister, he is reformed
by his love for Lizzie Heiam, whom he marries [Dickens,
Our Mutual Friend].
Wren, Jenny : tee Cleaver, Fanny.
Wrexhill, Vicar o! : the hero of a novel [Mrs. Trollop*,
Vicar of WreshOl].
Wronghead, Sir Francis : M.P. for Guzzledown. A. blun-
WYC 305 YOR
dering country squire who cornea to town to attend
Parliament, always votes the wrong way, and is nearly
ruined by the extravagant follies of his family [Van-
brugh and Cibber, Provoked JJiitband].
Wycliffe. Wilfrid: the son of Sir Oswald, and in low
with Matilda [Scott, Rokeby].
Wynebgwrthucher : King Arthur's shield [Mobinogion].
Wynne, Taffy or Talbot : the Yorkshireman who marries
Miss Bagot [Du Maurier, Trilby].
Wyoming, Gertrude of : the heroine «f the poem. She la
the daughter of Albert and marries Henry Woldegrave
[Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming],
Xury : a Moresco boy who acts as servant to Crusoe [Defoe,
Robiiuon Crusoe}.
Taboos, The : a race who combine the form of man with the
nature of brutes and are subject to the Houyhnhnms,
a breed of horses endowed with reason [Swift, Gulli-
ver'i Travel*].
Yamen : the lord of Pandalon (hell) [Southey, Cvrte of
Kehama].
Yasodhara : the docile bride of Prince Siddartha [Edwin
Arnold, Light of Aria].
YeUowley, Triptolemus : an experimental farmer of Stour-
burgh [Scott, Pirate].
YeOowplush, Mr. : the hero of a series of humorous sketches
purporting to be written by a West-End footman
[Thackeray, Memoirt of Mr. C. J. YcUowpluth].
Yeo, Saltation : a Clovelly sailor who ' sweareth awfully in
his talk ' [Charles Kingsley, Wettteard Ho /].
Yeruti : the son of Qulara and Monnema, who was born in
the Mondai Woods, whither his parents had fled to
escape smallpox [Southey, Tale of Paraguay].
Ygerne : wife of Qorlois, Lord of Tintagel Castle in Corn
wall, who was slain by King Uther. Uther then
married Ygerne, and then- child was King Arthur
[Alfred Tennyson, IdyTit of the King : Coming of
Arthur].
Yniol : the father of Enid. He had fallen upon evil days,
when his nephew, Edyra, came and ousted him from
his possession*. Then Geraint came and took the old
man's part and overthrew Edyrn and married Enid
[Alfred Tennyson, Idyllt of the King: Qeraint and
Enid].
Yorick : jester at the Danish Court, ' a fellow of Infinite
jest and most excellent fancy ' [Shakespeare, Handel}.
W.W.F. X
YOR 306 ZAR
YorJck : the name assumed by Sterne In Tristram Shandy,
and also in A Sentimental Journey through France and
Italy.
Yorke, Mr. Hiram : ' a Yorkshire gentleman he was, par
excellence, m every point . . . truthful, upright,
independent ... as a rock based below seas ; but
also . . . harsh, rude, narrow, and merciless '.
Mrs. : the wife of Hiram. A conscientious,
morbid, melancholy and jealous woman.
Jessie and Rose : the daughters of Hiram Yorke.
i Matthew, Mark and Martin : schoolboys ; the eons
of Hiram [Charlotte Bronte, Shirley].
Young, Maria : a cripple and governess to the Grey and
Rowland children [Harriet Martineau, Deerbrook}.
Youwarkee : the ' Gawrey ' whom Peter Wilkins marries
[Pultock, Voyage of Peter WHkint]; tee alto Wilkins,
Peter.
Ysaie le Triste : son of Tristram and leold [Arthurian
Cycle].
Yseult : see Iseult.
Yuhidthiton : chief of the Aztecas. Wise in council and
mighty in war, he led his people in safety from south of
the Missouri to Mexico [Southey, Madoc],
Zadoc =» Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury [Dryden,
Absalom and Achilophcl}.
Zaira : the Italian mother of Eva Wentworth [Maturin,
Women: a novel].
Zamora : the youngest of Balthazar's daughters, in love
with a young sailer called Rolando [Tobin, Honey
moon].
Zamti : a Chinese Mandarin, the husband of Mandane
[Murphy, Orphan of China].
Zanga : a revengeful Moor, the servant of Don Alonzo,
whom he hates. He is the hero of the tragedy [Young,
The Revenge].
Zanjai : the hero of the story — an alchemist [Lytton,
Zanoni].
Zaphimri : the ' orphan • who under the name of Etan is
brought up by Zamti [Murphy, Orphan of China].
Zaphna : son of Alcanor, the Meccan Chief. Beset by all
sorts of untoward circumstances, he falls in love with
Palmira, who is his own sister, and slays his own
father [Miller, Mahomet the Imposter].
Zapolya : the heroine [8. T. Coleridge, Zapolya ; a Christ-
mat Tale].
Zara : an African Queen, in love with Osmyn [Congreve,
Mourning Bride].
ZAR 307 ZOL
Zara : the heroine of a play adapted from the French
of Voltaire [Hill, Zara ; based on the French of
Voltaire].
Zarah = Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough [Mrs. De la
Riviere Manley, Secret History of Queen Zarah}.
Zaraph : the angel by whom Nama was beloved [Thomas
Moore, The Lave* of the Angels].
Zarca : the gypsy chief, father of Fedalma [George Eliot,
Spanish Gypsy}.
Zeal, Arabella : one of the characters in the comedy
[Charles Shadwell, Fair Quaker of Deal}.
Zeinab : wife of Hodeirah, and the mother of Thelaba
[Southey, Thelaba}.
Z«lica : betrothed to Azim, who, mistaking her for the
•Veiled Prophet', slays her [Thomas Moore, Latta
Rooth}.
Zelis : engaged to be married to a man who forsook her,
she travelled to Italy, intending to become a nun
in Borne. Captured by Corsairs she was sold as a
slave and finally rescued and married by Hingpo, a
Chinaman [Goldsmith, Citizen of the World].
Zelmane : the name taken by Pyrocles when he pass«d as
a woman [Sidney, Arcadia}.
Zeluco : the hero of a novel, the scene of which is mostly
laid in Italy [Dr. J. Moore, Zeluco : Various Views of
Human Nature, etc.].
Zenelophon : the beggar-maid who married King Cophetua.
Oftener called Penelophon [Shakespeare, Love's
Labour's Lost}.
Zenobia : an excitable, impulsive woman, who drowns
herself [Nathaniel Hawthorne, Blithedale Romance}.
Zenocia : affianced bride of Arnoldo [J. Fletcher, Custom
of the Country].
Zephon : the cherub who found Satan hiding in the garden
of Eden and made him appear before the Archangel
Gabriel [Milton, Paradise Lost}.
Zimmerman, Adam : one of the deputation sent by the
Swiss to Charles the Bold [Scott, Anne of Qeier-
stein}.
Zimri = the second Duke of Buckingham.
'Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was everything by turns, and nothing long.'
[Dryden, Absalom and Achitophd}.
Bbi, Mohammed : the kin "
Zinebi, Mohammed : the kindly king of Syria, a tributary
to the Caliph Haronn-al-Kaschid [Arabian Nights}.
Zobeide : wife of Haroun-al-Raschid [Arabian Nightt}.
Zoleika or Zuleika : sometimes called Rail, the wife ol
Potiphar [Sale, Al Koran}.
ZOP
308
ZUL
Zophlel : ' of cherubim the swiftest wing '. He warns tha
heavenly host of the approach of the rebels [Milton,
Paradite Lost}.
Zuleika : daughter of the Pasha of Abydi>s [Byron, Bridt
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