Tales and Stories

Narrator

Also known as I

An unnamed first-person narrator who recounts the visit to Lake Albano and records Countess Atanasia’s story.

Countess Atanasia D——

Also known as Countess Atanasia · the countess

A gracious woman who tells the narrator the tragic story of Maria and Anina.

Maria

Anina’s older sister, who becomes a nursing nun at Santa Chiara and is executed in Anina’s place.

Anina

Also known as Nina

Maria’s younger sister, who loves Domenico Baldi and later becomes a nun at Santa Chiara.

Andrea

Also known as old Andrea

The farmer father of Maria and Anina.

Domenico Baldi

Also known as Domenico

An outlaw from Nemi who loves Anina and leads an attack on the French.

The French commanding officer

Also known as the officer

Oversees Anina’s capture and permits Maria to visit her.

The priest

An unnamed priest summoned to hear a condemned prisoner’s confession.

The narrator’s companion

Also known as the lovely countess

An unnamed member of the narrator’s party who comments on Atanasia’s story.

A peasant hunter

Also known as the hunter

An unnamed farmer and hunter seen by Lake Albano.

A contadina

An unnamed peasant woman returning from the village.

A pedlar

An unnamed seller displaying pictures and prints.

The Count of Eboli

Also known as Count Eboli · Count Ferdinando Eboli · Ferdinando Eboli · Ferdinand

A Neapolitan nobleman whose lookalike usurps his identity. He escapes imprisonment, reunites with Adalinda, and regains his honours.

The Marchese Spina

Also known as the Marchese · the baron

A high-ranking official, friend of Eboli’s father, and Adalinda’s father; he initially believes the impostor.

Adalinda

Also known as Signorina

Spina’s daughter and Eboli’s betrothed, who exposes the impostor and reunites with Eboli.

Murat

Also known as Gioacchino · the king · the King of Naples

King of Naples, who commissions Eboli’s mission and later restores his honours.

The false Count Eboli

Also known as the impostor · the pretender · the deceiver · the counterfeit

Ludovico, Eboli’s illegitimate elder brother, who steals his identity and dies during the retreat from Moscow.

A peasant girl

An unnamed young woman who finds and frees Eboli.

A child

Also known as the little fellow

An unnamed child with the peasant girl who helps tend Eboli.

The old aunt

Also known as Adalinda’s aunt

An unnamed blind and deaf relative who accompanies Adalinda as her duenna.

A French officer

An unnamed high-ranking Frenchman who reports Eboli’s apparent double to Murat.

A noted bandit

An unnamed prisoner of Eboli, reported to have escaped.

Betta Tossi

Also known as old Betta Tossi

A village woman who fears the French have captured her missing son.

The son of Betta Tossi

An unnamed young man suspected of joining Domenico Baldi’s outlaws.

An old man from Nemi

An unnamed father who is shot while bringing food to besieged outlaws.

A French soldier

An unnamed soldier who shoots the old man from Nemi.

The peasant narrator of Domenico’s escape

An unnamed villager who says he saw Domenico escape the French at Rocca Giovane.

The Marchese Spina’s old aunt’s household servants

Also known as Adalinda’s servants

Unnamed attendants secretly replaced by the impostor’s agents.

The elder brother of Ferdinand

Also known as Ludovico

The illegitimate elder son of the old Count Eboli, who resents Ferdinand, usurps his identity, and later dies saving him.

Queen Caroline

The queen to whom Adalinda appeals; she brings the imposture to Murat’s attention.

Katusthius Ziani

Also known as Katusthius · the Moreot · the son of Ziani

A Moreot and Dmitri’s sworn brother, who plots to claim his family inheritance and seize Cyril’s child.

Dmitri of the Evil Eye

Also known as Dmitri · the Albanian · the Arnaoot · the klepht

A feared Albanian bandit who abducts Constans, grows attached to him, and protects him after learning he is his grandson.

Helena

Dmitri’s deceased Sciote wife, whose daughter was stolen in a raid.

Dmitri’s daughter

Also known as the infant daughter · the girl

Dmitri and Helena’s daughter, stolen young and raised as Zella; she becomes Constans’s mother.

Cyril Ziani

Also known as Cyril · Cyril Ziani of Corinth

A wealthy Corinthian merchant, Zella’s husband and Constans’s father, who searches for his abducted son.

Zella

Also known as Dmitri’s daughter

Cyril’s wife and Constans’s mother, raised as the daughter of the Mainote Capitano of Kardamyla.

Constans

Also known as little Constans · the boy

The young son of Cyril and Zella, abducted by Katusthius and protected by Dmitri.

The old Count Eboli

Also known as Count Eboli’s father

The deceased father of Ferdinand and Ludovico, who acknowledged Ludovico as his son.

Ludovico’s mother

Also known as the wronged mother

Ludovico’s mother, who resented the old Count Eboli and raised her son to hate him and Ferdinand.

Cyril’s father

Also known as the rich merchant of Corinth · the deceased Ziani

A wealthy Corinthian merchant who raised Katusthius and left his estate to Cyril.

Katusthius’s intended bride

Also known as the Fanariote beauty

An unnamed Fanar woman Katusthius was about to marry before he fell into poverty.

Cyril’s nurse

Also known as the nurse

An unnamed woman caring for Constans who witnesses his abduction.

Cyril’s domestic

Also known as a domestic

An unnamed servant who directs Cyril to Zella at the chapel.

Cyril’s household attendants

Also known as the domestics · the menials

Unnamed servants who search for Constans and guard Zella.

The Capitano of Kardamyla

Also known as old Camaraz · Camaraz · Zella’s father · the Mainote

Zella’s father, a Mainote chief and mariner who joins the search for Constans.

The Capitano’s mother

Also known as Zella’s grandmother

The Capitano’s elderly mother, rescued from a besieged fortress.

The paramana

An unnamed attendant to the Capitano’s family.

The Sciote widow

Also known as the widow of a wealthy islander

Helena’s mother and Zella’s grandmother, whose daughter is killed and granddaughter taken in a raid.

The Protoklepht

Also known as the bandit chief

The leader of Albanian bandits travelling with Katusthius and Dmitri; the text does not establish whether he is Dmitri.

The Caloyers

Also known as the monks

Monks at Zitza and the Prophet Elias who shelter Constans and resist Katusthius.

The priest at Mosme

Also known as a priest

An unnamed priest who hosts Cyril and Camaraz at Mosme.

The disabled Arnaoot

Also known as the injured Arnaoot

An injured Albanian bandit who tells Cyril and Camaraz where Dmitri went.

The Belouk-Bashee of Sagori

Also known as the Belouk-Bashee

An unnamed local leader Katusthius seeks to enlist against Dmitri.

The Sagorians

Also known as the Sagorian troop

People of Sagori led by Katusthius against Dmitri’s band.

A Mainote crewman

Also known as one of the Mainotes

An unnamed member of Camaraz’s party who asks Cyril to rescue the Capitano’s family.

Henry IV of France

Also known as Henry · the king · the monarch · my liege

King of France and Constance’s guardian, who seeks to reconcile her with Gaspar.

Constance de Villeneuve

Also known as Constance · the Countess de Villeneuve · the young countess

A young heiress who loves Gaspar despite their families’ feud and considers becoming a nun.

Gaspar de Vaudemont

Also known as Gaspar · De Vaudemont · the young knight · the cavalier

A young knight and Henry IV’s favourite, in love with Constance.

Manon

Also known as the waiting-woman · the suivante · the chief attendant

Constance’s attendant, who accompanies her to St. Catherine’s bed and informs the king of her plan.

Constance’s father

Also known as the Count of Villeneuve

Constance’s father, killed by Gaspar’s father during the civil wars.

Constance’s brothers

Also known as her two brothers

Constance’s two brothers, killed during the civil wars.

Gaspar’s father

The man who killed Constance’s father during the civil wars.

Gaspar’s mother

Gaspar’s mother, who cursed the house of Villeneuve.

The boatman

Also known as the man in waiting

An unnamed man waiting to carry Constance and Manon across the Loire.

Saint Catherine

Also known as the saint

The saint whose bed above the Loire is believed to guide sleepers through dreams.

Horace Neville

Also known as Neville

A wealthy, sensitive man who tells Juliet about Ellen Burnet and their childhood friendship.

Juliet

Horace Neville’s younger cousin and betrothed, who promises to preserve Ellen’s grave.

Ellen Burnet

Also known as Ellen · Miss Eversham · the Hon. Miss Eversham

Clarice Eversham, who survives a shipwreck, lives as Ellen Burnet, befriends young Horace, and requests an unmarked grave.

Horace’s father

Also known as Neville’s father

Horace’s father, remembered by him during his childhood flight.

Horace’s mother

Also known as Neville’s mother

Horace’s mother, remembered during his childhood flight from school.

The Eton tormentor

Also known as Horace’s tyrant

An unnamed older schoolboy who abuses Horace and kills his pet bullfinch.

The Eton tormentor’s father

Also known as the father of Horace’s tormentor

An unnamed man whose arrival interrupts the tormentor’s abuse of Horace.

An elder Eton boy

Also known as the elder boy

An unnamed schoolboy who sees Horace fleeing Eton but does not pursue him.

Ellen’s attendant

Also known as the young girl

An unnamed young servant at Ellen’s cottage who serves Horace breakfast.

Lewis Elmore

Also known as Lewis · Mr. Elmore

Clarice’s fiancé and Horace’s rescuer, who searches for Clarice and learns she lived as Ellen Burnet.

Lord Eversham

Clarice’s father, who dies after putting her into a rescue boat from the burning St. Mary.

Clarice Eversham

Also known as Clarice · Miss Eversham

Lord Eversham’s daughter and Lewis Elmore’s beloved, who survives the shipwreck under the name Ellen Burnet.

The Earl of D——

Also known as the Earl of D

Owner of Elmore Park and father of a son who helps Horace after a hunting accident.

Lewis Elmore’s mother

Also known as Lewis’s mother

The mother who cared for Clarice during her childhood.

The captain of the Bellerophon

Also known as the captain

The captain who oversees the St. Mary rescue and later recounts what he remembers of Clarice.

The commander of the Bellerophon

Also known as the commander

The commander of the Bellerophon, whom Lewis visits seeking news of Clarice.

Nancy

A girl who gives Ellen’s letter to the sexton after her burial.

Mr. Cooke

Also known as the sexton

The sexton at Old Windsor who keeps Ellen’s farewell letter for Horace.

Emilie de Lagny

Also known as Emilie · the Lady de Lagny

Margaret of Navarre’s former maid of honour, who takes her husband’s place in prison so he can escape.

Margaret, Queen of Navarre

Also known as Queen Margaret · Margaret

A queen and Francis’s sister who wagers on Emilie’s fidelity and secures her husband’s pardon.

Francis

Also known as the king · the royal brother

King of France and Margaret’s brother, who pardons de Lagny after learning of Emilie’s sacrifice.

The Sire de Lagny

Also known as Enguerrard de Lagny · De Lagny

Emilie’s husband, imprisoned on a false treason charge, who escapes and proves his innocence.

Robinet Leroux

Also known as Robinet

Emilie’s page, who escapes with de Lagny.

The jailor

Also known as the jailer

De Lagny’s unnamed jailor, who brings Margaret a message from the knight.

A French cavalier

Also known as the messenger

An unnamed knight who reports a victory to Francis and is revealed as de Lagny.

Manfred

Also known as Manfred, King of Naples

Deceased king of Naples whose memory inspires the Ghibellines.

Corradino

Also known as Conradin

Manfred’s young nephew and claimant to the Swabian throne, whose arrival gives the Ghibellines hope.

Charles d’Anjou

Also known as Charles · King of Naples

Guelph leader and ruler of Naples, who prepares to fight Corradino.

Monna Gegia de’ Becari

Also known as Monna Gegia · Gegia

An old Florentine Guelph married to Ghibelline shoemaker Cincolo; she mourns their murdered child.

Cincolo

A Ghibelline shoemaker and Gegia’s husband, who restrains his anger for her sake.

Mari

An unnamed man who fed the lions before Monte Aperto; Gegia suspects he poisoned them.

Arrigo dei Elisei

Also known as Arrigo

Gegia and Cincolo’s only child, murdered at sixteen in Manfred’s cause.

Ricciardo de’ Rossini

Also known as Ricciardo · Ricciardo de’ Rossini of Milan

A young Ghibelline who takes refuge with Cincolo and Gegia under an assumed identity and brings news of Corradino.

Buzeccha

Also known as Buzeccha the chess-player · the Saracen

A famous Saracen chess player in Florence who converses with Ricciardo.

Count Guido Novelle de’ Giudi

Also known as Count Guido Novelle

A former Vicare of Florence in whose presence Buzeccha played chess.

Monna Lisabetta

A woman Gegia speculates may be passing during the May festival.

Messer Giani dei Agli

Also known as Giani dei Agli

A weaver whom Gegia mentions for his role at Pagibonzi.

The mother of Corradino

Also known as Corradino’s mother

An unnamed princess who raised Corradino and reluctantly consented to his expedition.

The two beautiful dogs

Francis’s dogs, present in his apartment.

The child with Ellen

Also known as the little girl

An unnamed girl who recognizes Horace and tells him about Ellen’s letter.

Messer Beppe

Also known as Giuseppe de’ Bosticchi · Beppe de’ Bosticchi · Giuseppe Bosticchi · Bosticchi

A Guelph Florentine whom Ricciardo accuses of murdering Arrigo; Bosticchi denies it.

Messer Guielmo Lostendardo

Also known as Lostendardo · Messer Guielmo

A former friend of Manfred who imprisons Despina and leads Corradino to execution, later repenting in a convent.

Despina dei Elisei

Also known as Despina · Madonna Despina dei Elisei

Arrigo’s daughter, raised by Cincolo and Gegia, who disguises herself as Ricciardo to seek Lostendardo’s support for Corradino.

Countess Elizabeth

Also known as the Countess Elizabeth, the mother of Corradino

Corradino’s mother, who urges Despina to approach Lostendardo.

Queen Sibilla

Also known as Sibilla

Manfred’s wife, whom Despina served at court.

Frederic of Austria

Also known as Frederic

An ally of Corradino who accompanies his army.

Pope Clement IV

Also known as Clement IV · Clement

Corradino’s enemy, who predicts his defeat; Despina calls him Manfred’s murderer.

A Frangipani pursuer

Also known as one of the family of Frangipani

An unnamed Frangipani who captures Corradino and delivers him to Charles.

A Provençal judge

Also known as one of Corradino’s judges

The only judge to condemn Corradino; Robert of Flanders kills him.

Robert of Flanders

Charles d’Anjou’s brother-in-law, who kills the judge who condemns Corradino.

Juliet (daughter of the Marchese Torella)

Also known as Juliet

The Marchese Torella’s daughter, raised alongside the narrator of “Transformation” and eventually betrothed to him.

The narrator of “Transformation”

Also known as I · Guido · Guido il Cortese

An unnamed Genoese narrator who recounts his life, body exchange with a dwarf, and eventual marriage to Juliet.

The Marchese Torella

Also known as Torella

A Genoese noble exiled during political upheaval who entrusts his daughter Juliet to a friend.

The narrator’s father in “Transformation”

Also known as my father

The narrator’s widowed father, who raises him and becomes Juliet’s guardian.

The narrator’s older cousin in “Transformation”

Also known as a cousin of mine

An unnamed older cousin who tries to claim Juliet as his bride.

Winzy

Also known as the scholar · the pupil of Cornelius

A poor scholar who drinks half of Cornelius Agrippa’s elixir and believes he becomes immortal.

Cornelius Agrippa

Also known as Cornelius · the alchymist · the philosopher · the adept

A renowned alchemist and Winzy’s master, who dies before drinking his second batch of elixir.

Bertha

Winzy’s childhood friend and wife, who grows old while he remains youthful.

Bertha’s father

A respectable man who dies of fever, leaving Bertha an orphan.

Bertha’s mother

Bertha’s mother, who dies of fever.

The old lady of the castle

Also known as Bertha’s protectress · the old dame · the old crone · the high-born hag

A wealthy, childless woman who adopts Bertha and opposes her relationship with Winzy.

Albert Hoffer

Also known as Albert

A young man favoured by Bertha’s protectress as a possible match for Bertha.

The page of the old lady

An unnamed page who attends the old lady.

Winzy’s mother

Also known as my mother

Winzy’s mother, who welcomes Bertha when she flees to marry him.

Winzy’s father

Also known as my father

Winzy’s father, who welcomes Bertha into their cottage.

The seven sleepers

Also known as the Seven Sleepers

Legendary sleepers cited by Winzy as an example of a more bearable long sleep.

Nourjahad

Also known as the fabled Nourjahad

A legendary figure cited by Winzy while reflecting on endless life.

The narrator of “Transformation”’s father’s wealthy friend

Also known as a wealthy Genoese noble

An unnamed nobleman, identified as the Marchese Torella, who leaves his daughter in a friend’s care.

Charles VI of France

Also known as Charles the Sixth

The French king during Guido’s stay in Paris, described as intermittently insane and controlled by others.

The Queen of France

Also known as the queen

An unnamed French queen who withdraws with the dauphin after the Duke of Orleans is murdered.

The dauphin

The unnamed heir to the French throne.

The Duke of Burgundy

The duke who murders the Duke of Orleans.

The Duke of Orleans

A duke murdered by the Duke of Burgundy.

Guido’s Parisian companions

Also known as my young friends · my comrades · my reckless companions

Unnamed young associates of Guido who accompany him back to Genoa.

The narrator of “The Swiss Peasant”

Also known as I

An unnamed narrator who hears Fanny Chaumont’s story while travelling with Ashburn.

Ashburn

Also known as my friend Ashburn · the painter

The narrator’s painter friend, who introduces Fanny’s story.

Fanny Chaumont

Also known as Fanny

A Bernese orphan raised by the de Marvilles, who loves Louis and is eventually reunited and married to him.

Louis Chaumont

Also known as Louis · Chaumont

Fanny’s husband, a peasant uprising leader who later reforms through military service.

Fanny’s child

Also known as the child · the little plump fellow

The young child of Fanny and Louis.

The wife of the chateau owner

Also known as Madame de Marville · Fanny’s protectress · her benefactress

The de Marville wife who raises Fanny and is Henry’s mother.

The owner of the chateau

Also known as Monsieur de Marville · M. de Marville · the governor

The aristocratic governor who orders Louis away and later returns after the uprising.

Henry de Marville

Also known as Henry · the young seigneur · the chevalier

The de Marvilles’ son, who loves Fanny and is saved by her and Louis during the uprising.

Fanny’s father

Also known as her father

An unnamed Swiss peasant killed in an avalanche.

Fanny’s mother

Also known as her mother

An unnamed Swiss peasant killed in an avalanche.

Fanny’s brothers and sisters

Also known as her brothers and sisters

Fanny’s unnamed siblings, killed in an avalanche.

Louis’s father

Also known as his father

An unnamed man driven from his home by a feudal tyrant who teaches Louis resentment of oppression.

Louis’s mother

Also known as his mother

An unnamed woman who dies broken-hearted after her family is driven into poverty.

Louis’s former feudal oppressor

Also known as a feudal tyrant

An unnamed landowner who drives Louis’s family from their home.

The old lame gardener

Also known as the gardener

An elderly, lame servant who drives the de Marvilles’ cart during their flight.

A peasant who helps Fanny

Also known as the peasant

An unnamed villager who offers the fleeing party another cart.

The domestic who brings news

Also known as a domestic

An unnamed servant who reports that the unrest has ended.

The narrator of “The Invisible Girl”

Also known as I

An unnamed narrator who finds a Welsh tower and recounts Henry Vernon and Rosina’s story.

The old woman of the tower

Also known as the good dame · the hostess

An unnamed woman who tends the tower and shelters the narrator; she is a fisherman’s mother.

Henry Vernon

Also known as Henry

Sir Peter’s son, who loves Rosina and searches for her after she disappears.

Rosina

Also known as the Invisible Girl · Henry’s beloved

An orphan raised by Sir Peter who hides in a Welsh tower after persecution and reunites with Henry.

The elder fisherman

Also known as the father of a numerous family

An unnamed fisherman who rows Henry toward the coast.

The younger fisherman

Also known as the old woman’s son · the daring lad

An unnamed young fisherman who joins Henry’s dangerous voyage.

The man who bales out the boat

Also known as the companion

An unnamed crewman who spots the tower’s beacon and guides the boat.

Sir Peter Vernon

Also known as Sir Peter · the old baronet

Henry’s widowed father, who drives Rosina away and later accepts her union with Henry.

Mrs. Bainbridge

Also known as Sir Peter’s widow sister · the odious aunt

Sir Peter’s sister, who helps persecute Rosina and later leaves.

The wealthy suitor

Also known as Rosina’s richest admirer

An unnamed rich man selected as Rosina’s prospective husband; she refuses him.

Mrs. Bainbridge’s maid

Also known as the maid

An unnamed attendant who betrays Rosina’s letter to Henry.

The servant who sees Rosina leave

Also known as a servant

An unnamed servant who sees Rosina cross the park.

The fisherman’s wife

Also known as the hostess at the cottage

An unnamed woman who feeds and shelters Henry and the fishermen.

The fisherman’s son

Also known as the host’s son

An unnamed young man who accompanies Henry and the sailors to the tower.

The fisherman’s family

Also known as the family

The unnamed coastal household that shelters Henry and the fishermen.

The stranger girl

Also known as the female figure

An unnamed young woman seen near the tower and suspected by villagers to be the Invisible Girl.

The narrator of “The Brother and Sister”

Also known as I

An unnamed narrator who tells the story of Lorenzo and Flora Mancini.

Ugo Mancini

Also known as Ugo

A Sienese exile and father of Lorenzo and Flora, who dies impoverished in exile.

Lorenzo Mancini

Also known as Lorenzo

Ugo’s son and Flora’s brother, banished after challenging Fabian; he entrusts Flora to Fabian’s care.

Flora Mancini

Also known as Flora

Lorenzo’s sister and ward of Count Fabian, whom she eventually loves while remaining devoted to her brother.

Count Fabian dei Tolomei

Also known as Count Fabian · Fabian

The young Tolomei head who banishes Lorenzo, becomes Flora’s guardian, falls in love with her, and protects her.

The Countess de’ Tolomei

Also known as the countess · Fabian’s mother

Fabian’s mother, who resents and mistreats Flora because she is a Mancini.

The prince of France

Also known as the royal traveller

An unnamed French prince whom Fabian’s party goes to meet.

Old Sandra

Also known as Sandra · the old cassiére · the housekeeper

The elderly housekeeper at the Tolomei villa who befriends Flora and summons help after Fabian’s accident.

The peasant farmer at the villa

Also known as the peasant

An unnamed farmer living with his family at the Tolomei villa.

The peasants at the villa

Also known as the peasant’s family

The unnamed family living with the farmer at the Tolomei villa.

The physician

Also known as the leech

An unnamed physician called to treat Fabian after his riding accident.

Fabian’s friends

Also known as his friends

Unnamed companions who visit Fabian during his recovery and ride with him to Siena.

Flora’s companions

Also known as the young ladies · the attendants

Young women in the Tolomei household who befriend Flora.

The Tolomei followers

Also known as Fabian’s followers

Unnamed supporters who help Fabian drive Lorenzo from the lists and imprison him.

The women who tell Flora of Lorenzo’s imprisonment

Also known as several women

Unnamed women who report Lorenzo’s imprisonment to Flora.

The Madonna

Also known as the image of the Madonna

A sacred image before which Flora prays for Lorenzo.

The Sienese citizens

Also known as the populace

The people of Siena who support the Tolomei and taunt Lorenzo.

The Tolomei

Also known as the house of Tolomei

The ruling Sienese family and hereditary enemies of the Mancini.

The Tolomei brothers

Also known as the two brothers

The Countess de’ Tolomei’s brothers, killed in the last conflict with the Mancini.

Angeline

Also known as poor little Angeline

One of Flora’s former companions, who assists her planned departure and stays with her on the last day before the journey.

The landlady at the Apennine inn

Also known as the hostess · the considerate hostess · the landlady

An unnamed innkeeper who gives Fabian and Flora shelter and tells Flora that a stranger has nursed the sick traveller.

The sick traveller

Also known as the sick cavalier · the stranger

Lorenzo Mancini, found gravely ill on his way to Siena and nursed by Fabian.

A servant of the Polish traveller

Also known as the servant

An unnamed servant who accompanies the Polish traveller and assesses the damage to his carriage.

Ladislas

Also known as the Pole · the traveller · the hero of Ostrolenka and the Vistula

A Polish patriot in exile, travelling to Naples to seek help for his imprisoned brother. He falls in love with Idalie and escapes a Russian-backed assassination plot.

Marietta

Idalie’s younger sister, a gifted singer who flees Giorgio and the Princess Dashkhoff, performs at San Carlo, warns Ladislas of danger, and helps the couple escape.

Giorgio

Also known as Messer Giorgio

Marietta and Idalie’s brother, an Italian officer and secret chief of a band of bravi. He conspires to murder Ladislas and dies in the failed attempt.

The Princess Dashkhoff

Also known as Corinna of the North · the Princess

A wealthy Russian patroness influential at the court of St. Petersburg, who lives in Naples and arranges a plot against Ladislas to obtain his papers.

Idalie

Also known as Idalie’s fair

A Polish artist and Ladislas’s beloved, daughter of a follower of Kosciusko. She marries Ladislas and escapes with him to France.

The English traveller

An unnamed English visitor who asks the Princess about Idalie.

Idalie and Marietta’s father

Also known as the follower of Kosciusko

An unnamed Polish follower of Kosciusko who died poor and unknown in Naples; he was once wealthy and had a castle.

Ladislas’s brother

Also known as his only brother

An unnamed brother of Ladislas whose fate depends on the Princess Dashkhoff’s influence at Petersburg.

Ladislas’s spies

Also known as spies armed for his destruction

Unidentified agents said by Marietta to be watching Ladislas and seeking his death.

The narrator of “The Parvenue”

Also known as I

An unnamed first-person narrator who recounts her rise from poverty, marriage to Lord Reginald, and eventual estrangement from him.

The narrator’s twin sister

Also known as my sister · Susan

The narrator’s twin sister, who marries Lawrence Cooper and later writes to invite the narrator to join her.

The narrator’s father

Also known as my father

A land steward who remarries, is badly injured in a fire, and later pressures his daughter to obtain money from Lord Reginald.

The narrator’s mother

Also known as my mother

The narrator’s charitable and devout mother, whose advice is to resist her family’s financial demands; she dies after years of illness.

The narrator’s half-sisters

Also known as my elder half-sisters · my sisters

Unnamed daughters from the narrator’s father’s first marriage, who work hard and later depend on the narrator’s assistance.

The narrator’s half-brothers

Also known as my half-brothers

Unnamed sons from the narrator’s father’s first marriage, who later depend on the narrator’s assistance.

The narrator’s maternal grandfather

Also known as my maternal grandfather

A sensitive and gifted clergyman, whose qualities the narrator’s mother inherits.

Lord Reginald Desborough

Also known as Lord Reginald · her husband

A wealthy nobleman who rescues and marries the narrator, then becomes estranged from her after she chooses to support her family.

Lawrence Cooper

Also known as Cooper

A carpenter who marries Susan; his debts lead him to commit forgery, but he later reforms and becomes prosperous.

The narrator’s clergyman grandfather

Also known as her maternal grandfather

The narrator’s maternal grandfather, a clergyman remembered as a man of sensibility and genius.

The narrator of “Euphrasia”

Also known as Valency’s narrator

An unnamed narrator who recounts Harry Valency’s account of the Greek chief Constantine and his sister.

Harry Valency

Also known as Valency · the English youth · the English boy

A young English volunteer for the Greek cause who is wounded in an ambush and saved by the dying chief Constantine.

The Greek chief Constantine

Also known as Constantine

A renowned young Greek warrior, brother of Euphrasia, who saves Valency after their ambush and dies from a mortal wound.

The Greek scout

Also known as the scout

An unnamed scout who warns Constantine’s troop that Turkish soldiers are approaching.

Euphrasia

Also known as Constantine’s sister

Constantine’s beloved younger sister, an educated poet and Greek patriot. Captured by a pasha’s son, she is rescued by Constantine but dies from a gunshot wound.

The adopted father of Constantine and Euphrasia

Also known as their adopted father · the brother by adoption of their father

An unnamed guardian who raises Constantine as a warrior for Greek freedom and educates Euphrasia as a scholar; he dies before the revolution.

The son of the pasha

Also known as the pasha’s son

An unnamed Turkish official’s son who has Euphrasia imprisoned in his harem.

Constantine’s comrades

Also known as his comrades · a few select spirits

Unnamed Greek and Albanian companions who help Constantine attack the palace and attempt to rescue Euphrasia.

The narrator of “The Elder Son”

Also known as I

An unnamed woman who inherits a fortune, is placed under Sir Richard Gray’s guardianship, and recounts her complicated courtship with her cousin Vernon.

The father of the narrator of “The Elder Son”

Also known as my father

A widowed Irish dean who loves his only daughter deeply and leaves her a substantial inheritance under Sir Richard Gray’s guardianship.

The mother of the narrator of “The Elder Son”

Also known as my mother

The beloved wife of the narrator’s father, who dies when their daughter is about ten.

The governess of the narrator of “The Elder Son”

Also known as her governess

An unnamed worthy woman who educates the narrator and returns to comfort her after her father dies.

Sir Richard Gray

Also known as the narrator’s uncle · my uncle

The narrator’s paternal uncle and guardian, father of Vernon, Clinton, Marianne, and other children. He concealed that Clinton was born to Matilda Towers before their marriage, and later repents of depriving him of his birthright.

The first Lady Gray

Also known as Lady Gray · Sir Richard’s wife

Sir Richard’s first wife, of lower rank, who wins friends through her propriety and dies in childbirth.

Vernon Gray

Also known as Vernon · the cousin

Sir Richard’s son, who schemes to win the narrator and her fortune, then becomes passionately attached to her. He is the elder legitimate son, while Clinton was born first to Sir Richard and Matilda Towers before their marriage.

Clinton Gray

Also known as Clinton

Sir Richard and Matilda Towers’s firstborn son, whose birth before their marriage was concealed; he is honourable and loves the narrator, but gives way to Vernon’s claim and later marries her.

Marianne Gray

Also known as Marianne

Sir Richard’s twelve-year-old daughter and the narrator’s companion at Beech Grove; she is Vernon and Clinton’s sister.

Lady Hythe

Also known as Sir Richard’s married daughter

Sir Richard’s married daughter and Clinton’s sister, who befriends the narrator and shelters her from Vernon.

Sir Richard Gray’s other married daughter

Also known as his other married daughter

An unnamed married daughter of Sir Richard who lives in Scotland.

Sir Richard Gray’s youngest daughter

Also known as the youngest girl

An unnamed twelve-year-old daughter of Sir Richard who lives with her governess at the family seat in Hampshire.

Matilda Towers

Also known as Miss Towers

Sir Richard Gray’s wife and Clinton’s mother. Sir Richard falsely claimed they were married before Clinton’s birth, then married her three days after Vernon was born.

Caroline

Also known as Clinton’s sister

Clinton’s sister, married and living on the Continent; she comes to support the narrator and explain Clinton’s intentions.

The husband of Caroline

Also known as the best and most generous fellow breathing

An unnamed man, Caroline’s husband, praised by Clinton.

A servant of the narrator

Also known as my servant

An unnamed servant who announces Lady Hythe’s arrival and delivers Clinton’s letter.

The narrator’s father’s first wife

Also known as Lady Gray

Sir Richard’s first wife, mother of Vernon and his siblings; she is mentioned as having required concealment of the marriage date.

The narrator of “The Pilgrims”

Also known as I

An unnamed narrator who presents Burkhardt of Unspunnen’s story.

Burkhardt of Unspunnen

Also known as the Lord of Unspunnen · the old noble · the old knight

A Swiss lord who disowns his daughter Ida after she marries the son of his enemy. He later reconciles with her children and welcomes them into his home.

The elder pilgrim

Also known as Hermann

Ida’s son, who travels in disguise with his sister to seek Burkhardt’s forgiveness and becomes his grandson’s companion.

The younger pilgrim

Also known as Ida

Ida’s daughter and Hermann’s sister, who joins him on the pilgrimage to their grandfather and later marries Walter de Blumfeldt.

Agnes

Also known as Burkhardt’s wife

Burkhardt’s deceased wife and Ida’s mother, remembered as virtuous and beloved.

Ida

Also known as Burkhardt’s daughter

Burkhardt and Agnes’s daughter, who marries Conrad of Wädischwyl against her father’s wishes and spends her life seeking his forgiveness. She is the mother of Hermann and the younger Ida.

Rupert, Lord of Wädischwyl

Also known as Rupert of Wädischwyl · Lord Rupert

Burkhardt’s bitter enemy and Conrad’s father, who conspires with Duke Berchtold in an effort to reconcile the families through his son’s marriage to Ida.

Duke Berchtold of Zähringen

Also known as the Duke of Zähringen · His Highness

A powerful ruler who betrays Burkhardt’s trust, allies with Rupert, and invades Unspunnen.

Conrad of Wädischwyl

Also known as Conrad · the son of Lord Rupert

Rupert’s son and Ida’s husband, who persuades her to marry him and later takes her to Italy.

The old porter

Also known as the porter

An unnamed gatekeeper at Burkhardt’s castle who admits Ida when she returns seeking her father’s forgiveness.

Wilfred

Also known as the faithful steward

Burkhardt’s trusted steward, who tells him that Ida has left the castle and grieves with him.

The replacement steward

Also known as the steward who replaced Wilfred

An unnamed stern steward who denies Ida entry when she comes to plead for her father’s forgiveness.

Father Jerome

Also known as the good Father Jerome

A priest admitted to Burkhardt’s chamber after his reunion with Hermann and Ida.

Willibald

Burkhardt’s steward, who brings a letter from the Abbot of St. Anselm introducing Walter de Blumfeldt.

The Abbot of St. Anselm

Also known as the abbot

An abbot who recommends Walter de Blumfeldt as a worthy guest to Burkhardt. He is Walter’s trusted friend and former tutor, entrusted by Walter’s late father with his education.

Walter de Blumfeldt

Also known as Walter · Sir Knight · the Duke of Zähringen · His Highness · the duke

The young knight who marries Ida and is revealed to be the only son and heir of the late Duke of Zähringen. Raised by the Abbot of St. Anselm, he reconciles his family with Burkhardt and becomes Duke.

The Baron de Leichtfeldt

Also known as the Baron

The father of the young woman who marries Hermann.

Hermann’s wife

Also known as the daughter of the Baron de Leichtfeldt

An unnamed young woman, daughter of the Baron de Leichtfeldt, whom Hermann marries.

The Emperor

Also known as the emperor

An unnamed ruler whose wars Walter de Blumfeldt has served.

Burkhardt’s faithful dog

Also known as the dog

Burkhardt’s dog, who welcomes him home and alerts the old porter.

The late Duke of Zähringen

Also known as Walter’s father · his sire

The deceased Duke of Zähringen and Walter’s father, who once wronged Burkhardt but later repented and entrusted Walter’s education to the Abbot of St. Anselm.

The twelve pages

Also known as the pages

Unnamed attendants who advance in the staged ceremony for Ida’s birthday.

The six young girls

Also known as the young girls

Unnamed attendants who present coronets to Walter and Ida during the birthday celebration.