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Richard Wilson. Eliza Millward: Michael Millward’s younger daughter and a good friend of Rose Markham. She is an amusing little thing, a very engaging little creature. Her figure is slight and plump and she has a small face, nearly as round as Rose’s. Her complexion is similar to Rose’s but is less decidedly blooming. Her nose is retrousse and her features are generally irregular. She is perhaps more charming than pretty. She has long, narrow eyes with black or very dark brown irids. Her expression is ever changing — wicked and bewitching. She has a gentle, childish voice with a light tread as soft as a cat — and the manners of a playful kitten. It is no wonder that she bewitched Gilbert, until he came under the spell of a deeper charm. Sarah: She is the Millwards’ maid. Mr Wilson: Mrs Wilson is the widow of a substantial farmer, a narrowminded tattling old gossip. Jane: Jane is Mrs Wilson’s daughter. She is a young lady of some talents and more ambition. She has a boarding school education with acquired elegance of manners and has managed to lose her provincial accent. She is about 26 years old and is tall and slender. Her complexion is fair and brilliant. She has a small head with a long neck and a long chin. Her hair is neither chestnut nor auburn, but a most decided, bright, light red. He eyes are clear hazel, quick and penetrating but devoid of poetry or feeling. She scornfully repulsed or rejected suitors in her own rank but had designs on Frederick Lawrence. Robert Wilson: One of Mrs Wilson’s 2 sons, he was a rough, countrified farmer. Richard (Dick): Another of Mrs Wilson’s 2 sons. He is a retiring, studious young man who was studying the classics with the vicar’s help. He enters the church and succeeds Reverend Millward after that gentleman’s death. However the Millward family connection with the parish continues with Richard marrying the vicar’s useful daughter, Mary. Mr Leighton: He is the preacher at the Staningley church. Mr Oldfield, Mr Boreham, Mr Wilmot: These are some of unsuccessful Helen’s suitors. - 40 -
Lord Lowborough, Ralph Hattersley and Mr Grimsby: Along with Walter Hargraves, these are some of Arthur’s friends. Lowborough dissipated his fortune in gambling and other vices but may find redemption through his marriage to Millicent Hargraves. Grimsby has a sinister cast in his countenance with a mixture of lurking ferocity and fulsome insincerity. Rachel: She is Helen’s maid. She has been with her for many years. She recalls the early days at Wildfell Hall when Helen was a girl. She was her maid at Grassdale Manor and ran away with her to Wildfell Hall. Benson, John, Mrs Greaves and Alice Myers: Benson, as the name suggests, was the butler at Grassdale Manor. John was a servant and Mrs Greaves the housekeeper. Shortly before Helen’s flight from Grassdale Alice Myers was hired as a governess to young Arthur. Perhaps attended to the needs of his father more than the son. She disappears when he falls ill and when Helen comes to him his clouded brain thinks it is Alice who has returned. Jacob: Jacob was a man who was nearby when Eliza thought Gilbert was going to faint. Animals: Black Bess, Grey Tom, Nimrod: Huntingdon’s horses. Dash: Mr Huntingdon’s favourite cocker spaniel. Ruby: Helen’s horse. Sancho: Gilbert’s black and white setter. Writers & Artists Sir Walter Scott (“Marmion”) Shakespeare (“Macbeth”) Vandyke Historical Characters Humphrey Davy: inventor of mining lamp. Mahomet: the prophet. Sir Herbert, Valentine: famous lovers. Biblical Characters Absalom, Adam, David, Eli, Jesus, Peter, Solomon. Figures Of Speech George: by ... Lord Harry: by the ... - 41 -
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