Annie | Adams Fields | American writer. |
Maya | Angelou | American poet. |
Anna | Austen | One of Fanny's cousins. |
Edward | Austen | Jane Austen's brother. |
George | Austen | Jane's father. |
Jane | Austen | English novelist. |
Mrs. | Austen | Jane's mother. |
James Edward | Austen-Leigh | Jane Austen's nephew. |
Miss | Bailey | Anne Sharp's employer. |
Ida Constance | Baker | Katherine's friend. |
Leslie Heron | Beauchamp | Katherine's younger brother. |
Maria | Bell | School teacher. |
Vanessa | Bell | Virginia's sister. |
Arthur | Bell Nicholls | Charlotte's father. |
Edith | Bendall | An artist. |
Princess | Bibesco | English writer and socialite. |
Eliot | Bliss | Jamaican novelist. |
Napoleon | Bonaparte | French statesman and military leader. |
Nellie | Boxall | A cook. |
Robert | Brabant | A doctor. |
Elizabeth | Brandwell | Charlotte's aunt. |
Dorothy | Brett | British painter. |
Vera | Brittain | A nurse. |
Charlotte | Bronte | English novelist and poet. |
Patrick | Bronte | Charlotte's father. |
Mrs. | Bronto | Charlotte's mother. |
Robert | Browning | English poet and playwright. |
Frances | Burney | A novelist. |
Anne Isabella | Byron | English mathematician. Aka: Lady Byron. |
George Gordon | Byron | Poet. Aka: Lord Byron. |
Eliza Lee | Cabot Follen | American author and abolitionist. |
Thomas | Cadell | Book seller. |
Fanny | Cage | One of Fanny's cousins. |
Dorothy | Chapman | Fanny's former governess. |
John | Chapman | Owner of the Westminster Review. |
Miss | Colbourne | Owner of Lansdown Crescent School. |
Joseph | Conrad | Polish-British writer. |
Edward Henry | Corboud | Artist. |
Benjamin | Crosby | Owner of Crosby and Company in London. |
John Walter | Cross | Marian's new partner. |
Miss | Crow | Professional painter. |
Charles | Dickens | English writer and social critic. |
Mary | Dixon | Mary Taylor's cousin. |
Fyodor | Dostoyevsky | A writer. |
Maria | Edgeworth | Irish author. |
Calvin S. | Ellis Stowe | Harriet's husband. |
Paul | Emanuel | Musical artist. |
Mary Ann | Evans | English novelist, poet
and journalist. Aka: George Eliot. |
Robert | Evans | Author, editor and occasionally journalist. |
John Duncan | Fergusson | Scottish artist. |
James T. | Fields | Annie Adams' husband. |
F. Scott | Fitzgerald | American fiction writer. |
E.M. | Forster | English novelist. |
Elizabeth | Gaskell | Charlotte's friend. |
Countess | Guiccioli | Biographer. |
George | Gurdjieff | A philosopher. |
Gordon S. | Haight | Marian's biographer. |
Charles | Halle | Composer. |
Friedrich | Halle | Pianist. |
Constantin | Heger | Belgian teacher. |
William | Heinemann | British publisher. |
Ernest | Hemingway | American journalist. |
Winefred | Holtby | English novelist. |
Lottie | Hope | A maid. |
Monsieur | Huard | Drawing master. |
Zora Neale | Hurston | Author of African-American literature. |
Aldous | Huxley | English writer and philosopher. |
Betty | Jones | A pie woman. |
Catherine | Knight | One of Edward's benefactress. |
Thomas | Knight | American lawyer and politician. |
Grace | Lee | Amelia's sister. |
Thornton | Leigh Hunt | Journalist. |
Agnes | Lewes | George Henry Lewes' legal wife. |
George Henry | Lewes | English philosopher and critic of literature. |
Abraham | Lincoln | 16th U.S. president. |
Martha | Lloyd | Jane's old friend. |
Mary | Lloyd | Martha's sister. |
Mrs. | Lloyd | Martha's mother. |
Katherine | Mansfield | New Zealand short story writer. |
Molly | Milles | One of Edward's benefactress. |
Ottoline | Morrell | Virginia's old friend. |
Dinah | Morris | Methodist lay preacher. |
Toni | Morrison | American novelist. |
Alice | Munro | Canadian short story writer. |
John | Murray | One of the most influential publishers. |
John Middleton | Murry | English writer. |
Edmund | Nelson | Angelican priest. |
Ellen | Nussey | New student at Roe Head School. |
Robert Dale | Owen | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
Lady | Pilkington | Anne Sharp's new employer |
William | Pilkington | Lady Pilkington's brother-in-law. |
Miss | Raikes | Anne Sharp's employer. |
Marjorie Kinnan | Rawlings | American author. |
Jean | Rhys | A novelist. |
Samuel | Richardson | English writer and printer. |
Bertrand | Russell | British philosopher. |
Susannah | Sackree | Nursemaid. |
Vita | Sackville-West | A popular novelist. |
Walter | Scott | Scottish novelist. |
William | Shakespeare | English poet. |
Anne | Sharp | Fanny's governess. |
Richard | Sheridon | Fame dramatist. |
James Kay | Shuttleworth | Charlotte's new friend. |
Janet | Shuttleworth | James' wife. |
Robert | Southey | English poet. |
Herbert | Spencer | Philosopher and sociologist. |
James | Stanier Clarke | Naval author. |
Elizabeth Cady | Stanton | American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist. |
Charles Edward | Stowe | Harriet's son. |
Harriet Beecher | Stowe | American author. |
Lytton | Strachey | English writer and critic. |
Ellen | Taylor | Mary's cousin. |
George | Taylor | A doctor. |
James | Taylor | Editor of Charlotte's publishing house. |
Mary | Taylor | A writer. |
Mr. | Taylor | Mary's father. |
Mrs. | Taylor | Mary's mother. |
Alfred | Tennyson | British poet. |
William Makepeace | Thackeray | British novelist. |
William Smith | Williams | Charlotte's editor. |
William Carus | Wilson | Headmaster of Charlotte's first boarding school. |
Johann | Wolfgangvon-Goete | German writer. |
Margaret | Wooler | Headmistress at Roe Head School. |
Virginia | Woolf | English writer. |
William Butler | Yeats | Irish poet. |
Claire | Zoe Heger | Constantin's wife. |
Henry 3 | | One of Harriet's sons. |
Amelia | | Maidservant. |
Anne | | Charlotte's sister. |
Branwell | | Charlotte's brother. |
Cassandra | | Jane Austen's sister. |
Catherine | | Charlotte's older sister. |
Charles | | One of Edward and Elizabeth's children. |
Charley | | One of Harriet's sons. |
Edward | | One of the boys who boarded at Eltham School. |
Eliza 1 | | Calvin's first wife. |
Eliza 2 | | Harriet's first child. |
Elizabeth 1 | | Edward's wife. |
Elizabeth 2 | | One of Charlotte's sisters. |
Emily | | One of Charlotte's sisters. |
Emma | | Jane's 4th novel. |
Fanny | | Cassandra's eldest niece. |
Frank | | Edward's brother. |
Fred | | Harriet's son. |
George | | One of the boys who boarded at Eltham School. |
George | | Virginia's half-brother. |
Gerald | | Virginia's half-brother. |
Harriet 2 | | Harriet's 1 second child. |
Henry 1 | | One of the boys who boarded at Eltham School. |
Henry 2 | | Jane's favorite brother. |
Joe | | Mary's older brother. |
Leonard | | Virginia's husband. |
Lizzy | | One of Edward and Elizabeth's children. |
Lloyd | | One of Jane and Cassandra's friends. |
Louise | | One of Edward and Elizabeth's children. |
Maria | | One of Charlotte's sisters. |
Marian | | George Henry Lewes' wife. |
Marianne | | One of Edward and Elizabeth's children. |
Thornie | | Marian's stepson. |
Waring | | Mary's brother. |
William | | One of Edward and Elizabeth's children. |
Withers | | One of Jane and Cassandra's friends. |