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Ancrum, Miss

BLACK SHEEP

Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ancrum; mentioned in passing as having a swollen face and needing to have a tooth pulled.

Ancrum, Mr.

BLACK SHEEP

Bath resident and husband of Mrs. Ancrum, he gave Miss Selina Wendover his arm to assist her from the Pump Room to her carriage when Stacy Calverleigh cut her.

Ancrum, Mrs.

BLACK SHEEP

Bath resident, wife of Mr. Ancrum, and friend of Mrs. Grayshott and Selina and Abigail Wendover.

Badbury

BLACK SHEEP

Stacy Calverleigh’s man of business.

Balking, Leonard

BLACK SHEEP

Brother of Mrs. Grayshott and uncle of Oliver and Lavinia, he is a most gentlemanly bachelor and a wealthy East India merchant with a great deal of common sense.He is very affectionate and generous to his sister and her children, providing for her support in Bath after Captain Grayshott’s death, sending Oliver out to work with him in India, and paying for Lavinia to attend school at Miss Timble's.

Brede, George

BLACK SHEEP

Husband of Mary Brede, née Wendover, he is agreeable and sensible, with a good-humored face, and lives with his family in Brook Street, London. He is not prudish, unlike his brother-in-law, James Wendover.

Brede, Mary (Mrs. George)

(née Wendover)

BLACK SHEEP

A middle sister of Selina and Abigail Wendover and wife of George Brede, she is a sweetly comfortable woman of placid good sense and lives with her husband in Brook Street, London.

Broxbourne, Lord

BLACK SHEEP

An early and spurned suitor of Abigail Wendover, he was an excellent man, with a most superior mind and every quality to render him acceptable, but a dead bore.

Butterbank, Mrs. (Laura)

BLACK SHEEP

The bosom friend of Miss Selina Wendover who bore her company while her sister Abigail was away in Bedfordshire. According to Miles Calverleigh, she is a tallow-faced female, with rabbit's teeth, and she is well-known as the "Bath Intelligencer."

Calverleigh, [?]

BLACK SHEEP

Father of Miles and Humphrey Calverleigh, brother of Charles and great-grandfather of Stacy, and a gamester like all but Miles. He dispatched Miles to India for his wild oats.

Calverleigh, Charles

Black sheep

An uncle of Miles Calverleigh, hence great-uncle of Stacy Calverleigh, who was a gamester like Miles’s father and Stacy as well.

Calverleigh, Humphery (deceased)

BLACK SHEEP

Older brother of Miles Calverleigh and father of Stacy Calverleigh, he died before Stacy came of age, leaving him Danescourt, in Brookshire. Since he was the Heir, his debts were those of honor, and he was the first to acquire a mortgage against the estate. The family apparently came over with the Conqueror, though Miles thinks they are probably descended from one of the thatchgallows he brought with him.

Calverleigh, Miles

BLACK SHEEP

Younger brother of Humphrey Calverleigh and uncle of Stacy Calverleigh, he is the black sheep of the family, his mother having died when he was a schoolboy, and he having been expelled from Eton for being in the petticoat line, sent down from Oxford, and finally dispatched to India in disgrace more than 20 years ago; he has just returned, escorting Oliver Grayshott to Bath, having made his fortune due to his shrews business sense. He is tall and loose-limbed, with harsh features in a deeply lined face, deplorably sallow skin, deep-set gray eyes made the more striking by his swarthy complexion, and not the smallest air of fashion, for he dresses carelessly and clearly sets more store by comfort than elegance, his broad shoulders sporting a coat too loose for modishness and his shirt oonly exptremely moderate points. He has an air of indifference, however well-bred, does not like obligations, has no sense of family affection, though he is attached to Danescourt, in Brookshire, where he grew up; he has no wish to be accepted into Bath or any other society nor any regard for the conventions governing polite conduct, and thinks it rather too late to acquire the accomplishment of blushing. His smile transforms his face, however, and his reserve, if it may be called that, contains a definite element of mockery and even mischief. He puts up in Bath at York House and tends to pay morning visits at odd hours and in top-boots.

Calverleigh, Stacy

BLACK SHEEP

Only child and heir of Humphrey Calverleigh and nephew of Miles Calverleigh, he is 29 and a man of fashion and address, not above average height, but handsome and with a particularly good figure, his manners a nice mixture of deference and assurance. He uses snuff and carries a cane and is a smart but not a dandy, for his shirt-points might be a little too high and his coats a bit too padded at the shoulder and nipped in at the waist, but never overloaded with jewelry. Not even-tempered, he cultivates an air of smiling good humor, but his boyish smile does not reach his eyes. He enjoys the consequence of being Calverleigh of Danescourt, but, like his father and grandfather before him, he is a gamester and has the true gamester’s belief in his luck and is reputed to have tried to elope with a young heiress but been foiled. In Bath he puts up at the White Hart, in Stall Street, and makes himself agreeable to all the ladies, but particularly to Fanny Wendover.

Chesham, Lady Francis

(née Jane Wendover)

BLACK SHEEP

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Middle sister of Selina and Abigail Wendover, she lives in Huntingdonshire with her husband, Sir Francis Chesham, and her 3—no, now 4—children. She is often peevish, but it is perhaps partly because of Sir Francis, whom she was virtually forced to marry by her father’s obsession with brillian matches.

Chesham, Sir Francis

BLACK SHEEP

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Husband of Jane, Lady Chesham (née Wendover), he owns considerable property in Huntingdonshire but is at no time remarkable for his amiability; in fact, he is a glumpish, disagreeable man, an odious creature with nothing but wealth and title to recommend him.

Clapham, Mr.

Fictional deceased elderly husband of Mrs. Clapham, who took care of everything when her father died and then asked her to marry him and doted on her. Said to have always stayed at the Clarendon when he was in London because it had the best dinners of all the hotels; a hard-headed man of business who died quite suddenly.

Clapham, Mrs. (Nancy)

BLACK SHEEP

The young widow of an elderly Birmingham businessman who makes a timely visit to the White Hart, where Stacy Calverleigh is also putting up, in Bath. She is quite a young woman, past her girlhood but not a day over 30, and remarkably pretty, with an inviting mouth and a pair of brown eyes as innocent as they are enormous until she looks sidelong from under her curling lashes, and then they are unmistakably provocative. Chatty and confiding in desposition, she confesses that business makes her head ache. Her dress is costly but unostentatious, elegant but subdued, as if she has not long put off her widow’s weeds. She is not of the first stare—probably provincial, her husband having made his fortune in trade—but travels with a large entourage, including Mrs. Winkworth, her companion/chaperone, and in an elegant travelling-carriage. She professes to be an only child who has lived almost her whole life in Birmingham, and we learn later that she was at one time an actress.

Conner, Betty

BLACK SHEEP

Maid to Fanny Wendover with more hair than wit and flighty in the bargain according to Mrs. Grimston.

Dasher, The

BLACK SHEEP

See: Dolly

Dent, Dr.

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as Miss Selina Wendover's preferred Physician in Bath.

Dolly

BLACK SHEEP

See: Mrs. Winkworth

A dashing bit of muslin with whom Miles Calverleigh was well acquainted 20 years ago in his dissolute youth, she is now engaged in a different brach of her profession, in Bloomsbury, and has become alarmingly tonnish, having learned to stop talking flash.

Dunston, Mrs.

BLACK SHEEP

Mother of Mr. Dunston, she is amiable and platitudinous and believes her son’s amiability to be equaled by his elegance of mind; she says he is of such excellent character as never to have given her a moment’s anxiety.

Dunston, Peter

BLACK SHEEP

With easy, agreeable manners, the very respectable owner of a comfortable property not far from Bath and a suitor to Abigail Wendover, who believes he would be a kind, if unexciting, husband.

Elizabeth, Princess*

BLACK SHEEP

Elizabeth, third daughter and 7th child of George III and Queen Charlotte. (Born: 22 May 1770 and Died: 10 Jan 1840) She was married was on 7 April 1818, in the Private Chapel (when it was still probably called Queens House) at Buckingham in London to Frederick VI, Landgrave von Hessen-Homburg Hessen-Homburg. She was 38 years old and died without issue.

MIP: Miss Abigail Wendover's dressmaker came into fashion by attracting the custom of the Princess Elizabeth.

Exford, General

BLACK SHEEP

An elderly admirer of Miss Abigail Wendover in Bath, a widower who is given to telling anecdotes.

Fardle

BLACK SHEEP

Devoted handmaid to Miss Selina Wendover, she is sympathetic to her many illnesses, real and imagines, and supports her by describing the symptoms her relatives have experienced.

Faversham, Mr.

BLACK SHEEP

A resident of Bath who likes Miles Calverleigh better than his nephew Stacy Calverleigh when they meet at Signora Neroli’s concert in the New Assembly Rooms.

Faversham, Mrs.

BLACK SHEEP

Mr. Faversham’s wife, she attends Signora Neroli ‘s concert at the New Assembly Rooms with Miss Abigail Wendover.

Fletching

BLACK SHEEP

Cook to the Misses Wendover in Sydney Place, Bath..

Godwin

BLACK SHEEP

Of Godwin’s Circulating Library in Milsom Street, Bath, which is patronized by Miss Selina Wendover.

Grayshott, Captain (deceased)

BLACK SHEEP

Husband of Mrs. Grayshott and an officer of the line, he was killed during the Seige of Burgos, leaving a widow and three children, one of whom died less than a year later.

Grayshott, Miss Lavinia

BLACK SHEEP

Only daughter of Mrs. and Captain Grayshott, brother of Oliver, and niece of Leonard Balking, she is also the chief friend and confidant of Miss Fanny Wendover, who attends Miss Timble's school with her in Bath. A pretty brunette, with innocent brown eyes and a shy smile, she is innocently sentimental, romantic, and rather a gabster. At 15 she fell in love a visiting professor at Miss Timble’s and became quite tiresome to her family for sever weeks, but as he was a respectable husband and father, there was no harm in it.

Grayshott, Mrs.

(née Balking)

BLACK SHEEP

Widow of Captain Grayshott, mother of Oliver and Lavinia, and sister of Leonard Balking, she is a friend of the Misses Wendover in Bath, where Mr. Balking has established her in modest elegance in Edgar Buildings, in George Street. She is a woman of superior sense and manners of well-bred calm, but her face is rather care-worn and her disposition over-anxious because of her rather sickly constitution and the tragic circumstances of her life, including the death of her husband and the lingering and fatal decline of her young third child.

Grayshott, Oliver

BLACK SHEEP

Only son of Captain and Mrs. Grayshott, brother of Lavinia, and nephew and heir of Leonard Balking, he has an aquiline countenance, keen eyes, and mobile mouth, and a look of humor underlying a natural gravity. He is 22 but looks older, because his otherwise excellent constitution was apparently ill-suited to the climate of Calcutta, India, where he had gone 2 years earlier to make his fortune in Mr. Balking’s business after finishing at Rugby. Now he is not exactly a skeleton but a very thin young man and very tall, with hollow cheeks and tiny lines at the corners of his eyes. His manners are assured, though he blushes easily, and though he is innately chivalrous, he is confident of his ability to draw Stacy Calverleigh’s cork, his science and his punishing left having won fame for him in the annals of his school and college. He feels like a failure and a disappointment to his family, defeated by his constitution, and he is diffident and rather reticent, but his uncle values his talent for business and wants to take him into partnership when he is well.

Grenville, Sir Basil*

BLACK SHEEP

A monument in Lansdown was dedicated to him, a soldier killed in the seventeenth-century English Civil Wars.

A riding party to Lansdown that included Abigail and Fanny Endover, Miles Calverleigh, Stacy Calverleigh, Oliver and Lavinia Grayshott visited his monument.

Grimston, Mrs.

BLACK SHEEP

Nurse to the 3 younger Wendover daughters, hence in an unremitting struggle for position with Mitton since time immemoria, she is now lady's maid to Miss Abigail and is a formidable, middle-aged dame. She dislikes James Wendover, and though she sleeps in a little room next to Fanny’s and is ever alert to anything amiss with her pet, Abby maintains that it otherwise takes a trumpet blast to awaken her.

Jane

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as housemaid to the Misses Wendover in Sydney Place, Bath.

Juliet

BLACK SHEEP

Character in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Fanny Wendover’s aunt Abigail Wendover says Fanny should not be encouraged to fancy herself a modern Juliet with respect to Stacy Calverleigh.

Kelham, Letty

BLACK SHEEP

See:Lenham, Lady (Letty)

King, Mr. *

BLACK SHEEP

Master of Ceremonies at the New Assembly Rooms, also called the Upper Rooms, Bath.

Leavening, Mr. & Mrs.

BLACK SHEEP

Bedfordshire friends of Selina Wendover who just arriving in Bath for the first time and put up at York House, in George Street, while looking about for lodgings. The probably have only a genteel fortune and are old enough not to want to live in steep Gay street, and they finally hire lodgings in Orange Grove.

Lenham, Lady (Letty)

BLACK SHEEP

An aunt of Miles Calverleigh, though no more than a dozen years older than he, and a high stickler who had always had a kindness for Miles while detesting his father, not to mention Humphrey and his son, Stacy.

Lisette, Madame

BLACK SHEEP

A fashionable modiste on South Parade in Bath, protégée of the Princess Elizabeth and the dressmaker patronized by the Misses Wendover. Her original name was Eliza Murford.

Martha

BLACK SHEEP

Maid of the Grayshotts who usually accompanies Lavinia.

Meyler

BLACK SHEEP

Of Meyler’s Library, in bath, where Stacy Calverleigh made a hurried assignation with Fanny Wendover.

Mitton

BLACK SHEEP

Elderly butler to Misses Selina and Abigail Wendover in Sydney Place, Bath. He has a twinkle in his eye and understands Selina, and since he has grown old in the service of the family, he is engaged in an unremitting struggle for position with Mrs. Grimston.

Morval, [?]

BLACK SHEEP

Father of Celia Morval and just like Rowland Wendover, whom she marries.

Murford , Eliza

BLACK SHEEP

See: Lisette,

Madame

Nafferton, Mr.

BLACK SHEEP

An old friend of Miles Calverleigh during his dissolute youth and known to him as Naffy, he now has a wife and heir. Miles asks him where to find the Dasher.

Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, 1801-1815

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned as recently being exiled on the island of St. Helena, meaning that so many Englishmen would be disporting themselves in Paris that Stacy Calverleigh might as well set up a gaming establishment in London.

Neroli, Signora[*?]

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as the Italian singer performing at the New Assembly Rooms in Bath two evenings after the arrival there of Miles Calverleigh, who criticizes her voice as having too much vibrato.

Nibley, Mrs.

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as an elderly Bath resident whom Miss Abigail Wendover visits on Fridays.

Ockley, Dr.

BLACK SHEEP

The Bath physician Selina Wendover tried between Dr. Rowton and Dr. Dent.

Ongar, Colonel

BLACK SHEEP

Acquaintance of Miles Calverleigh and apparently a neighbor to Danescourt, in Brookshire.

Penn

BLACK SHEEP

Old retainer and butler to the Calverleighs at Danescourt, in Brookshire.

Penn, Mrs.

BLACK SHEEP

Old retainer and housekeeper to the Calverleighs at Danescourt, in Brookshire.

Pinhold, The Very Reverend Canon

BLACK SHEEP

A resident of Bath who thinks Miss Abigail Wendover is charming and her name as well, which he maintains to her astonishment means “father rejoiced.”

Plumley, Tom

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as an old crony of Miles Calverleigh during his wild youth in London; the Dasher remembers their escapades.

Porter,*Mrs.

BLACK SHEEP

Author of "Knight of something," a book sought by Abigail for Selina Wendover at Godwin's Circulating Library.

Romeo

BLACK SHEEP

Character in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. When Stacy Calverleigh proposes to her on his knees, Mrs. Clapham abjures him to stop acting as if he was Romeo.

Rowton, Dr.

BLACK SHEEP

Bath physician who has had the care of Fanny Wendover since she was a child. He is a sensible-looking man with a latent twinkle in his eye, is cheerful and matter-of-fact, and has been known to tell ladies in apparently failing health that they merely need occupation. The previous year he persuaded all of the Wendovers to be inoculated against smallpox.

Ruscombe, Charlie

BLACK SHEEP

Son of Mrs. Ruscombe; mentioned in passing as a friend and occasional escort of Fanny Wendover.

Ruscombe, Mr.

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as the meek husband of Mrs. Ruscombe, who attributes her more damaging criticisms to him and says he called Stacy Calverleigh a positive cockscomb.

Ruscombe, Mrs.

BLACK SHEEP

Mother of Charlie Ruscombe, bosom friend and correspondent of Cornelia, Mrs. James Wendover, and That Woman to Miss Selina Wendover, she is an ill-natured, back-biting woman with a shallow laugh who has always thought Abigail Wendover a trifle bold. She has 5 daughters and makes every effort to throw the tallow-faced eldest in Stacy Calverleigh’s way.

Slinfold, Mrs.

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as a Bath resident to whom Lady Weaverham remarks in the Pump Room that Stacy Calverleigh looked very handsome the evening before at the Upper Rooms.

Snisby, Miss

BLACK SHEEP

Head Saleswoman at Madame Lisette's establishment on South Parade, Bath.

Steek

BLACK SHEEP

Purveyor of lavender water worn by Stacy Calverleigh.

Swainswick, Mrs.

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as a Bath resident who asked Selina Wendover whether Abigail was soon to become engaged to Miles Calverleigh, upon hearing which, Abigail calls her a vulgar busy-head.

Tarvin, Mr.

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing by Miss Selina Wendover as an acquaintance in Bedfordshire who may have a wart on his left cheek.

Templeton, Lady

BLACK SHEEP

Bath resident who told Mrs. Ancrum about Abigail Wendover attending the play alone with Miles Calverleigh.

Thérèse

BLACK SHEEP

Fashionable London modiste to Mary Brede, to whom she took Abigail Wendover for new dresses while she was visiting at the beginning of the novel; undoubtedly expensive.

Thornaby, Mr.

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as a suitor to Abigail Wendover when she was seventeen. Her father forbade him ever to approach her again.

Thursleys, (Mr. and Mrs.)

BLACK SHEEP

Miss Selina wonders whether their lodgings in Westgate Building might do for the Leavenings; mentioned in passing.

Timble, Miss

BLACK SHEEP

Headmistress of Miss Timble’s Seminary, and select academy for girls in Queen's Square, Bath, which is attended by Miss Fanny Wendover and Miss Lavinia Grayshott.

Trevisian, Lady

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as a friend of Selina Wendover in Bath who warned her about Stacy Calverleigh before leaving for London, where she mentioned the matter to George Brede.

Trevisian, Peter

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as a friend and occasional escort of Miss Fanny Wendover in Bath.

Weaverham, Jack

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as the son of Sir Joshua and Lady Weaverham, brother of Julia and Sophia, and a friend and occasional escort of Miss Fanny Wendover in Bath.

Weaverham, Lady

BLACK SHEEP

Wife of Sir Joshua Weaverham, mother of Jack, Julia, and Sophia, and friend of Selina and Abigail Wendover, in Bath, she is immensely stout with a massive bosom and beams good-nature. She is voluble, amiable, and shatterbrained, and can recognize town bronze when she sees it. Lives with her family in Lower Camden Place.

Weaverham, Miss Julia

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as a daughter of Sir Joshua and Lady Weaverham, sister of Jack and Sophia, and friend of Miss Fanny Wendover, in Bath.

Weaverham, Miss Sophia

BLACK SHEEP

Mentioned in passing as a daughter of Sir Joshua and Lady Weaverham, sister of Jack and Julia, and friend of Miss Fanny Wendover, in Bath.

Weaverham, Sir Joshua

BLACK SHEEP

Husband of Lady Weaverham and father of Jack, Julia, and Sophia, in Bath. Formerly engaged in Trade in a perfectly respectable way before he retired, Sir Joshua and Lady Weaverham are acquaintances of the Misses Wendover in Bath and though they are not the pink of gentility, they are generally well-liked. Lives with his family in Lower Camden Place.

Wendover, ?

Black Sheep

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Former owner of Amberfield, in Bedfordshire, and deceased father of Rowland, James, Selina, Jane, Mary, and Abigail Wendover, he regarded propriety and making brilliant matches for his children above all things. Since he was not very smart himself, he had a great dislike of clever people. Abigail was a disappointment to him because she was not a boy and because he suspected her of being bookish, which was the worst he could say of anyone.

Wendover, Miss Abigail

BLACK SHEEP

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Youngest of the Wendover sisters at 28, Abby is neither a girl in her first bloom nor an accredited beauty, but she has an elusive charm centered in her intelligent gray eyes, in which a shy laughter lurks, complemented by an occasional dimple. Her features are not remarkable, her mouth being too large for beauty, her nose too far removed from the classical, and her chin rather too resolute; her soft brown hair she wears braided around her head or in a knot from which curls fall about her ears, and she dresses simply, elegantly, and fashionably, supported by an easy competence and therefore not obliged to study economy. She is tall, and has a pretty, musical voice, belying perhaps a certain impulsiveness and impatience with convention. In her girlhood she was rebellious and her brother Rowland still describes her as having an odd kick in her gallop, but she is no self-deceiver and has managed everything for her eldest sister, Selina, with whom she lives together in Sydney Place, Bath, since their mother died long years ago. She and Selina have the care and raising of their orphaned niece, Fanny Wendover.

Wendover, Miss Fanny

BLACK SHEEP

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Orphaned 17-year-old daughter of Rowland and Celia (née Morval) Wendover and ward of her uncle James Wendover, she lives with her aunts Selina and Abigail Wendover in Sydney Place, Bath, and, because of the tyranny of their own father, has been raised by them to be independent; hence she is not a lukewarm girl. The image of her mother, she is divinely fair, with golden hair and very blue eyes, and generally arouses admiration. She attends Miss Timble’s Seminary with her best friend, Lavinia Grayshott, and takes music lessons and Italian class. A clipping rider with a merry disposition, she is rarely ill and a bad patient, so Dr. Rowton calls her Miss Quicksilver.

Wendover, Miss Selina

BLACK SHEEP

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Oldest of the Wendover sisters, she is 16 years older than Abigail and on the shady side of 40. A hypochondriac, having nothing but her ailments real and imagined to divert her and make her the center of attention, she was always the least good-looking of the Wendover sisters but the most modish, having unerring taste. She is of enquiring mind and credulous disposition, talkative, inarticulate, shy, and sentimental, and her affections are not deep but sincere and enduring. She regards family ties as all-important, though she is sometimes felt to take rather more interest in the affairs of strangers, and she has always been comforted by the belief that Papa must know best, hence she gave up a curate she loved and lives with Abigail in Sydney Place, Bath, where they have together had the raising a care of their niece, Fanny Wendover.

Wendover, Mr. James

BLACK SHEEP

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Oldest living brother of Selina and Abigail Wendover and uncle and legal guardian of Fanny Wendover, he is a nip-farthing and incorrigible busy-head with thin cheeks and a tendency to pompous lectures and prudishness. He has always been subject to stomach disorders and, like Selina, he goes in dread of contracting any infectious disease. He is ruled by two passions: a determination to advance the interests of the family, and an even stronger determination to avoid at all costs anything savoring remotely of the scandalous.

Wendover, Mrs. James (Cornelia)

BLACK SHEEP

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Wife of James Wendover and mother of Albinia and other unnamed daughters, she lives with her family at Amberfield, in Bedfordshire. She is a lady of forceful character and is as big a nip-farthing as James. She is not desirous of having Fanny Wendover live with them because she would both outshine her own daughters and teach them bad habits; she cannot like Fanny and thinks her too much like her mother.

Wendover, Mrs. Rowland (Celia, née Morval)

BLACK SHEEP

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Wife of Rowland Wendover and mother of Fanny Wendover, she died when Fanny was 2 years old. She was quite lovely and fair but went off sadly, and Fanny is quite like her in countenance, though not in disposition, for Celia was romantic and biddable and after her marriage was forever saying “Rowland says.”

Wendover, Rowland, Esquire(?)

BLACK SHEEP

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Oldest brother of Selina and Abigail Wendover and father of Fanny Wendover, he died when Fanny was 5 years old. He was intellectually a slow-top and a pompous lobcock to boot, also hunting-mad and a very hard goer.

Wilkerson, Dr.

BLACK SHEEP

Bath Doctor called in to attend Oliver Grayshott upon his arrival from Calcutta.

Winkworth, Mrs.

BLACK SHEEP

See: Dolly

Companion and chaperone to Mrs. Clapham in Bath. Middle-aged and must have been handsome in her youth, with good features and fine, if rather hard, gray eyes. Not of the first stare, her refined accents being superimposed on an unmistakable Cockney twang, but maintains she has known Mrs. Clapham since she was a child.