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*Botticelli

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When Annis Wychwood accuses him of having fallen in love with her beauty, Oliver Carleton responds that he’s not in love with Botticelli’s Venus, greatly though he admires her beauty.

*BRUEGHEL

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Flemish artist

At the Pump Room, Oliver Carleton taxes Lord Beckenhamwith having bid up and finally purchased what he believes to be a dubious Breughel at Christie’s.

*CHARLOTTE, Princess (1796-1817)

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Oliver Carleton reports that she addresses all of her uncles by their Christian names, and they are all older than he, so Lucilla Carleton, his niece, has the same option.

*CUYP, Aelbert

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(1620-91) A revered artist of the Golden Age of Dutch painting.

When Annis Wychwood returns from Twynham Park, Lord Beckenham has just returned from an expedition to The Hague with a reputed Cuyp for his collection, though he professes to entertain doubts of its authenticity.

*JOHNSON, Dr. Samuel

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(1709-1784) English poet, critic and author of the celebrated Dictionary (1755). He is described as "A large man with a larger head". He was a famous poet, and wrote for the Gentleman's Magazine. It is believed he suffered from Tourette's syndrome.

Reputed to have lodged at the Pelican, in Walcot Street, Bath, which Annis Wychwood recommends to Ninian Elmore as a less fashionable and expensive place to put up, but a very reputable one. Ninian admits he may have heard of him, but Lucilla Carleton and Maria Farlow immediately identify him as “the dixionary man.”

?*PRESTON, General

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A Bath Eccentric and familiar sight to Annis Wychwood and other residents.

AMBER, Abel

Lady of Quality

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Late uncle and co-guardian with Oliver Carleton of Lucilla Carleton, brother of Mrs. Carleton, and husband of Clara Amber, living in Cheltenham. He was a great dear, but not a man of resolution and let his wife have her way in everything.

AMBER, Mrs. Clara

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Wife of Abel Amber and aunt by marriage of Lucilla Carleton, who continues to live with her in Cheltenham after Abel’s death. She is morbidly conscious of the responsibility of taking care of Lucy and refuses to take her to assemblies or let her ride or go on other outings. Very anxious, she keeps Lucy in line with tears, vapours, and appeals to her sense of gratitude. She bolts all doors and windows every evening, makes the butler take the silver up to bed with im and hides her jewelry under her mattress; she is afraid of dogs and horses and is subject to nervous headaches. However foolish, she has impeccable taste in clothes.

Arthur, King

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A tourbook of Bath says somewhere on Lansdown there are the remains of a fort besieged by him, and Lucilla Carleton and Ninian Elmore argue about whether he ever existed.

ASTON, Miss

Lady of Quality

A particular friend of Maria Farlow, now deceased, she had had a tendency to motion sickness, even in hackney carriages.

BECKENHAM (née), Caroline

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A sister of Lord Beckenham, who was left in his guardianship by their father’s death and for whom he found a well-inlaid husband; she does not now visit often at Beckenham Court.

BECKENHAM (née), Mary

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A sister of Lord Beckenham, who was left in his guardianship by their father’s death and for whom he found a well-inlaid husband; she does not now visit often at Beckenham Court.

BECKENHAM (née), Theresa

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Eldest sister of Lord Beckenham, she is married to an impecunious cleric and the mother of 2 children, who promise to be the first of many.

BECKENHAM, Captain James B.

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Middle brother of Lord Beckenham, a naval officer who was rapidly promoted had the good fortune to win a considerable amount of prize money in the war; he does not now visit often at Beckenham Court.

BECKENHAM, Lord Will

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Eldest of the 6 Beckenham siblings and owner of Beckenham Court, an imposing estate situated halfway between Bath and Wells, hence he is a frequent visitor to Bath and a favorite with the aging female residents. He is stockily built, a little more than 30 years of age, with rather heavy features and an air of considerable self-consequence, and he dresses with propriety but is not modish, with a neatly arranged neckcloth and shirt-points reaching hardly above his jawbone. His father died when he was young. Leaving him the sole support of an ailing mother and guardian of 3 of his siblings. Not a warm-hearted man, he nevertheless believes he holds his siblings in affection and is absolutely loyal to them, though his deeply ingrained habit of censuring their follies keeps them away from Beckenham Court. His one extravagance is the acquisition of pictures, statues, and vases, the authenticity of some of which is contested by Oliver Carleton. Annis Wychwood’s most persistent suitor, he never before thought a woman worthy of him; and he is as dull as she is lively.

BECKENHAM, Mr. Harry

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Lord Beckenham's younger brother, he is very elegant, of engaging address and fashionable appearance, with glossy brown locks brushed into the Windswept style and shirt-points to his cheekbones, and an accomplished horseman. The very antithesis of his brother, his character is as frivolous as his raiment; he ignores his studies and squanders his inheritance, among other things keeping a string of prime hunters.

Bess

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Annis Wychwood’s playful mare, normally at Twynham, but brought to Bath for Lucilla Carleton before she receives he own horse, Lovely Lady.

BETTY

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Second housemaid to Annis Wychwood in Upper Camden Place, she waits on Maria Farlow when she has the influenza and catches it from her.

BEVERLEY, Major

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Friend of Annis Wychwood, he is the same age as Denis Kilbride but is not a dancing man; he lost an arm at Waterloo.

Blue Devil

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Ninian Elmore’s horse at Chartley Place.

Bluebeard

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After proposing to Annis Wychwood, Oliver Carleton asks that she not turn him into a Bluebeard while he’s away in London.

BRIGHAM, Eliza

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The new abigail hired by Annis Wychwood for Lucilla Carleton, she is pleasant-face and genteel, and not one to put herself forward; she also has excellent taste and a strong sense of what is appropriate.

CARLETON, Captain Charles

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3-years-younger brother of Oliver Carleton, husband of Mrs. Carleton (née Amber), and father of Lucilla Carleton, he was killed at the Battle of Corunna, when Lucy was 7. He was a bosom-bow of Lord Iverley, having been with him at Harrow and then joined the same regiment, purchasing Chartley Manor, neighboring Chartley Manor, in hopes that the 2 would be united someday. His older brother regarded him as having less than common sense and too much sensibility, and thought him a bore.

CARLETON, Miss Lucilla

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17-year-old daughter of Captain Charles and Mrs. Carleton (née Amber), hence niece and ward of Oliver Carleton, she is very young and very pretty, with dusky curls sometimes worn in the Sappho style, and expensively and fashionably dressed, though appropriately for a girl just out of the schoolroom. She is rich enough to buy and Abbey and has been reared from birth in the strictest canons of propriety, not to mention instructed by expensive teachers in music, watercolor painting, and foreign languages. She is a capital little horsewoman and shy, but also headstrong, having been suffocated with loving kindness by her Aunt Amber and the family of Ninian Elmore, her childhood friend.

CARLETON, Mr. Oliver

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Older brother of Captain Charles Carleton and uncle and guardian of Lucilla Carleton, he is not handsome, but powerfully built, with dark hair and a swarthy complexion and straight, rather thick brows above hard, penetrating gray eyes; and he dresses like the older generation of Smarts, including a quizzing-glass which he uses with some frequency, without the exaggerated quirks of a dandy. Rich from birth, hence spoiled and perpetually courted and sought-after, he admits to an untoward disposition and a hasty temper, is famed for his incivility, and is a noted profligate. He is a skilled boxer and a devilish good shot, and he is bored to death by mawkishness. He didn’t know or like his brother much, nor his friend Lord Iverley.

CARLETON, Mrs. (née Amber)

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Wife of Captain Charles Carleton, mother of Lucilla Carleton, and sister of Abel Amber, she died 3 years ago. Oliver Carleton considered her a pretty little widgeon.

CHEESEBURN, Miss

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Formerly governess to Lucilla Carleton at Mrs. Amber’s in Cheltenham, she was highly accomplished and had charge of Lucy’s education and accompanied her wherever she went. With a rigid sense of propriety, she never won Lucy’s affection or inspired her to become proficient in her studies—not that she was unkind; she just had no understanding of anything outside of her books.

ELMORE (née), Sapphira

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Eldest, married sister of Ninian Elmore.

ELMORE, Cordelia

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Second sister of Ninian Elmore, she is apparently meekly insipid, with no sense, and clings to him, being a watering-pot after her mother, Lady Iverley’s own heart.

ELMORE, Eliza

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Youngest sister of Ninian Elmore, she conceived a schoolgirl passion for his childhood friend Lucilla Carleton.

ELMORE, Lavinia

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Third sister of Ninian Elmore, she is apparently meekly insipid and clings to him, burt she has some sense, is not a watering-pot, and doesn’t wind him up the way their sister Cordelia does.

ELMORE, Ninian

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Father: William Elmore, Lord Iverley

Mother: Lady Iverley

Sisters: Sapphia, Eliza, Cordelia, Lavinia

Son of Lord and Lady Iverley, with 4 sisters, he is the childhood friend of Lucilla Carleton and lives with his family at Chartley Place, in Hampshire. He has fair hair and a kind heart and has been reared from birth in the strictest canons of propriety, hence strives to be correct in all things. He is not long down from Oxford, hasn’t the least turn for scholarship, and is excessively devoted to his parents, who have raised him with a strong sense of filial duty. In Bath he puts up the the Pelican.

FARLOW, Miss Maria

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Father: Farlow, Mr.; Deceased;

Of uncertain age and very thin, she is a distant relation of and now companion to Annis Wychwood, in Upper Camden Place, Bath, having been left by an improvident parent in indigent circumstances. Tactless, but with a strong sense of duty (which can mean reporting to Sir Geoffrey Wychwood on Annis’s movements), she is of meek disposition but chatters cheerfully and incessantly, is desperately anxious to please and overflowing with gratitude, fussing forever over Annis and running unnecessary errands. She means well, knows how to handle children, and, like many aging spinsters, has a soft spot for personable young men like Ninian Elmore, but she is a difficult patient when she is ill and is not altogether perceptive.

FORDEN, Mr.

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A friend of Corisande and Edith Stinchcombe who rides with them and Lucilla Carleton and Ninian Elmore to Farley Castle; he jostles Mr. Marmaduke Hilperton for the privilege of helping Lucy into the saddle.

FRAMPTON, Miss

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Governess to Corisande and Edith Stinchcombe, she is a dear and so jolly that it’s fun to be accompanied by her (in contrast to Miss Cheeseburn).

HAWKESBURY, Jonathan

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A friend of Harry Beckenham and a very dashing Tulip, visiting Bath from London. He is very polite, wears exquisite raiment, is no great mental power nor very articulate, but a good dancer.

HILPERTON, Mr. Marmaduke

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A friend of Corisande and Edith Stinchcombe who rides with them and Lucilla Carleton and Ninian Elmore to Farley Castle; he jostles Mr. Forden for the privilege of helping Lucy into the saddle.

IVERLEY, Lady

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Wife of Lord Iverley and mother of Ninian Elmore and his sisters, she is a lady of exaggerated sensibility and a marked predilection for melodrama who rarely stirs out of Chartley Place. She is a haggard beauty with huge, sunken eyes, and she appears at Annis Wychwood’s home in Bath willowy and droopy, in clinging lavender silk and ostrich feathers, heavily veiled. She believes that Lord Iverley will have a heart attack if Ninian disobeys him.

IVERLEY, Lord (William Elmore)

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Husband of Lady Iverley, father of Ninian Elmore and his sisters, owner of Chartley Place, north of Salisbury, and former bosom-bow of Captain Charles Carleton, with whom he was at Harrow and then joined the same regiment. The Captain’s death changed him, and he rarely stirs from home. He has brought Ninian up to be a pattern-card of amiable compliance, partially by supporting the fiction that any filial disobedience could cause another heart-attack and even his demise.

JAMES

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Footman to Annis Wychwood in Upper Camden Place, Bath.

JANE

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First housemaid to Annis Wychwood in Upper Camden Place, Bath.

JURBY, Miss

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Annis Wychwood’s devoted dresser since her youth, austere and forthright, with angular knees and a strong sense of Right and Wrong. She is indignant at Maria Farlow’s forever running unnecessary errands for Annis and even a trifle jealous.

KILBRIDE, Gaydon

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Denis Kilbride's younger brother, possibly one of Annis Wychwood's rejected suitors.

KILBRIDE, Lady

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Grandmother of Denis and Gaydon Kilbride, a lady held in high respect.

KILBRIDE, Mr. Denis

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One of Annis Wychwood’s long-time admirers, who visits his grandmother in Bath with some frequency for financial reasons. He is somewhat rakish looking, charming but impecunious and on the lookout for a rich wife, a confirmed fortune-hunter but received everywhere. Witty, though not always in good taste, and impervious to hints, he is what Annis calls an incurable humbugger.

LAMBOURN, Lady Caroline

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Sister of Oliver Carleton, aunt of Lucilla Carleton, and widow of Sir Lambourn, she is very pretty and elegant, and her favorite pastime is being an invalid, especially when asked to do anything she doesn’t wish to do.

Lambourn, Sir ?

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Husband of Lady Lambourn, née Caroline Carleton, he had to good sense to turn up his toes once he realized which way the wind was blowing.

LIMBURY

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Annis Wychwood's elderly butler, he is fatherly and, like every good butler, awake upon every suit.

LIZZY

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Third housemaid to Annis Wychwood in Upper Camden Place, Bath, she steps in when Betty has influenza.

LOVELY LADY

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Name chosen by Lucilla Carleton for the gray mare purchased for her at Tattersall’s by Oliver Carleton. She had belonged to Lord Warrington.

MANDEVILLE, Mrs.

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Elderly, forthright, and critical, she is Bath’s most influential hostess and was a bosom-bow of Oliver Carleton’s mother. She attends Annis Wychwood’s rout-party and approves of Lucilla Carleton.

MELLING

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An elderly dentist in Frome. Lady Wychwood has no faith in him when it comes to Tom’s toothache.

NIBLEY, The Honourable Mrs.

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Regarded by Lucilla Carleton as her prospective employer when she runs away. She is in fact a pattern-card of respectability and renowned in Bath as the town’s worst arch-wife.

POPPLETON, Mrs.

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Statuesque, oppressively genteel proprietress of an employment agency in Bath where Annis Wychwood finds Eliza Brigham to be abigail to Lucilla Carleton.

PRESTON, Mrs.

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A lady whose hat was carried off by a gust of wind and took her wig with it, diverting and amusing Lady Wychwood.

PUNCH

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Lucilla Carleton’s pony when she was young.

SARAH

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Maid to Lucilla Carleton at the Amber residence but not a favorite with her, she is blamed for Lucy’s running away and flounces off, never to be heard of again.

SEALE

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Annis Wychwood's groom at Upper Camden Place, Bath; he goes to Twynham to fetch her favorite mare for Lucilla Carleton to ride.

SEDGELEY, Lord

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Once made an offer of marriage to Annis Wychwood. He may be the marquis and heir to a dukedom whom she thinks about when reflecting upon how she never cared strongly for any of her suitors.

SOWERBY

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A groom to Lord Iverley and family at Chartley Place, north of Salisbury.

STINCHCOMBE, Corisande

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Pretty daughter of Mrs. Stinchcombe and elder sister of Edith, she is the same age as Lucilla Carleton and becomes her main friend in Bath. She is far from bookish.

STINCHCOMBE, Edith

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Pretty daughter of Mrs. Stinchcombe and younger sister of Corisande, she is a friend of Lucilla Carleton in Bath.

STINCHCOMBE, Mrs.

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Mother of Corisande and Edith, with a son at Cambridge, she is a friend of Annis Wychwood in Bath, living in Laura Place. She is agreeable and pleasant, and because of her rheumatism she drinks a glass of the famous water in the Pump Room every morning.

TARPORLEY, Dr.

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Doctor near Twynham, Sir Geoffrey Wychwood’s estate, who could have pulled Master Tom’s tooth and made the journey to Annis Wychwood in Bath unnecessary.

TENBURY, Miss

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A friend of Corisande Stinchcombe who joins Harry Beckenham’s party to Badminton.

TIDMARSH, Dr.

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The doctor in Bath who attends the outbreak of influenza in Annis Wychwood’s household. He has 2 sons much like young Thomas Wychwood.

TREVISIAN, Julia, Lady

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Oliver Carleton's cousin, she has agreed to introduce Lucialla Carleton into society the year following her daughter Marianne’s wedding.

TREVISIAN, Marianne

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Lady Trevisian's daughter, to be married in May, necessitating the postponement of Lucilla Carleton's introduction to society for a year.

TUCKENHAY

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Mrs. Stinchcombe’s reliable elderly groom, who accompanies the young people to Farley Castle.

TWITCHAM

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Coachman to Annis Wychwood and her father before her; an elderly autrocrat who has known Annis since her birth and knows what’s due her consequence if she doesn’t.

VERNHAM, Miss

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Sister of Mr. Vernham and a spinster aunt, valued only when her sister-in-law needs her help and otherwise very much in the way, a situation Annis Wychwood is determined to avoid.

VERNHAM, Mr. and Mrs.

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A couple in Bath who value his unmarried sister, Miss Vernham, when she can be useful to them, as in when they want to go up to London.

WARDLOW, Mrs.

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Housekeeper to Annis Wychwood, in Upper Camden Place, Bath.

WARRINGTON, Lord

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Lovely Lady

Previous owner of the mare Oliver Carleton purchases at Tattersall’s for Lucilla Carleton; Warrington has no further use for her since his wife’s death.

WENDLEBURY, Mrs.

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A leader of Bath society, her approval is second only to Mrs. Mandeville’s for a young lady coming out in Bath. She is formidable and attends Annis Wychwood’s rout-party in a wig and ostrich feathers, bringing her widowed daughter and her graddaughter with—a triumph for Annis.

WESTCOTT

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The dentist in Bath who pulls young Tom Wychwood’s tooth.

WILKINSON, Dr.

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Has the management of the new vapor-baths in Abbey Street, Bath, which Sir Geoffrey Wychwood professes to think might be of benefit to Lady Wychwood, thus lengthening the family’s visit to Annis Wychwood.

WORCESTER, Lord

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Resident of Badminton, the seat of the Dukes of Beaufort, and a friend of Harry Beckenham, so Harry’s party of young people from Bath, including Lucilla Carleton and Ninian Elmore, are able to go inside the house even if it is not officially open to visitors.

WYCHWOOD, Amabel, Lady Wychwood

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Wife of Sir Geoffrey Wychwood, mother of Tom and Susan, and sister-in-law of Annis Wychwood, with mild blue eyes, she believes men to be wiser than women and better able to judge, and she believes all mwomen must wish to be married. She is gentle and kind, and not in the habit of indulging ridiculous fancies.

WYCHWOOD, Master Thomas

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Young son of Sir Geoffrey and Lady Wychwood, brother of Susan and nephew of Annis Wychwood, he is mercurial and obstreperous, as befits a boy his age, and he has a tendency to croup and motion sickness, not to mention an occasional excruciating toothache.

WYCHWOOD, Miss Annis

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Sister of Sir Geoffrey Wychwood and resident in Upper Camden Place, Bath, since her father, Sir Thomas Wychwood’s death 3 years earlier, she is and independent 29 and a remarkable beauty: tall, with guinea-gold curls, particularly fine deep blue eyes full of light—smiling eyes, set under delicate, arched brows—and a generous mouth made for laughter. Lively and clever, with charming manners and an elegant figure, she moves gracefully and dresses with exquisite taste. She rather deprecates her own golden loveliness as a trifle flashy—would prefer to be brunette—does not dote on children, enjoys flirtations with her many admirers, can sometimes be impulsive, and always appreciates the ridiculous. While staying with her, Lucilla Carleton remarks that she reads prodigiously and even keeps books in her bedchamber!

WYCHWOOD, Sir Geoffrey

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Brother of Annis Wychwood, husband of Lady Wychwood, father of Tom and Susan, and owner and resident of Twynham Park, the Wychwoods’ birthplace, on the border of Somersets and Wiltshire, he is a just man, but unromantically stout and very worthy, starched-up, and consequential. He believes no woman can take care of herself and considers levity to be Annis’s besetting sin. He is largely responsible for Maria Farlow becoming his sister’s companion when she moves from Twynham Park to Upper Camden Place, Bath.

WYCHWOOD, Sir Thomas

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Late father of Annis Wychwood and a Baron, he was dotingly fond of her.

WYCHWOOD, Susan

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Infant daugher of Sir Geoffrey and Lady Wychwood, sister of Tom.

Wychwood?, Augusta

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The aunt whom Annis Wychwood remembers as always saying “in my younger days …” whenever Annis wanted to do something of which she disapproved, much as Maria Farlow does with Lucilla Carleton.