All The Book Club For Troublesome Women characters Listed With Descriptions

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THE BOOK CLUB FOR TROUBLESOME WOMEN

by Marie Bostwick

Characters By Chapter

EDITOR:
Remy Hale

QUICK EDITION (QE)

CH	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	DESCRIPTION
1	Margaret Ruth	Ryan	The narrator, mother of three, initiator of the book club. Aka: Maggie
	Beth	Ryan	Margaret's eldest child
	Susan		Margaret's six-year-old daughter. Aka: Suzy
	Bobby		Margaret's son
	Walter	Ryan	Margaret's husband. Aka: Walt
	Charlotte	Gustafson	Margaret's artistic and outspoken neighbor
	Vivian	Buschetti	Former military nurse and mother of six. Aka: Viv
	Theodora Leonora	Cobb	Youngest club member, veterinarian's wife. Aka: Bitsy
	Dr. Ernest	Barry	Psychiatrist
	Dr. Alvin	Gould	Charlotte's doctor
	Howard	Gustafson	Charlotte's husband
	Denise		Charlotte's intelligent and stubborn eldest daughter
	Howard Jr.		Charlotte's son
	Laura		Charlotte's daughter
	Andrew		Charlotte's son
	Betty	Friedan	American writer and activist
	Sigmund	Freud	Austrian neurologist
	Delilah		Mrs. Graham's horse
	Katharine	Graham	Wife of Phil Graham
	Phil	Graham	Publisher of The Washington Post
	Kingsley	Cobb	Bitsy's husband, veterinarian. Aka: King
	Eydie	Gorme	American singer
	Vince		One of Viv's children
	Andrea		One of Viv's children
	Anthony	Buschetti	Viv's husband. Aka: Tony
	Mike		One of Viv's children
	Nick		One of Viv's children
	Mark		One of Viv's children
	Jenny		One of Viv's children
2	Anne Morrow	Lindbergh	American writer and aviator
	Margaret	Mead	Cultural anthropologist and author
	Van	Johnson	American actor and dancer
	Eleanor	Courter	Margaret's acquaintance
	Mrs. Rose	Kennedy	Mother of John F. Kennedy
	Mr.	Mayer	Drug store owner
	Lauren	Bacall	American actress
	Milton	Berle	Comedian and actor
	Lucille	Ball	Comedian and actress
	Helen	Babcock	Co-owner of Babcock's Best Books
3	Sylvia		The typewriter
	Ethel	Chenault	Margaret's best friend
	Cliff		Ethel's fiancé
	Cherry	Schaffer	Town troublemaker
	Jane	Austen	English writer
3	Barb	Fredericks	Margaret's neighbor
	Ellen		Margaret's neighbor
	Dorothy	Fisher	Margaret's neighbor
	Iris		Margaret's neighbor
	Tom		Iris' husband
	Jim		Pilot, Barb's husband
	Stan		Ellen's husband
	Debbie		Ellen's daughter
	Brian		Dorothy's husband
	Sarah		Iris' daughter
	Audrey	Hepburn	British actress
5	Henry	VIII	Former King of England
	Leonard	Clement	Editor
6	Brenda	Starr	American singer-songwriter
	Ulysses S.	Grant	Commanding Union General and 18th U.S. President
	Scarlett	O'Hara	Fictional character
	David	Miles	Executive editor of A Woman's Place
	Selma	Cantrell	Author of the Selma Says etiquette column
	Lawrence	Ahlgren	Painter
8	Lyndon B.	Johnson	37th Vice President of the United States
	Caroline	Kennedy	Daughter of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy
	Macaroni		Shetland pony
	Ellsworth	Kelly	American painter and sculptor
	Robert	Indiana	American artist
	Marcel	Duchamp	French-American artist and chess player
	Jasper	Johns	American painter and sculptor
	Alice	Denney	American art curator
	Adelyn Dohme	Breeskin	American curator
9	Dr. Francesca Elena	Giordano	Viv's prospective employer
	Dorothea	Harris	Receptionist
	Sister	Immaculata	Sixth-grade teacher
	Paul		Dr. Francesca's husband
	Carlo		Dr. Francesca's son
	Lucia		Dr. Francesca's daughter
10	Edwin	Babcock	One of the owners of Babcock's Best Book
	Ernest	Hemingway	American novelist and short story writer
	Georgia	O'Keeffe	American painter
	Mary	Wollstonecraft	English writer and philosopher
	Simone	de Beauvoir	French philosopher and writer
	Virginia	Woolf	English writer
	Mary	McCarthy	American critic and political activist
	Charlotte Perkins	Gilman	American novelist
	Nevil	Shute	English novelist and aeronautical engineer
	Flannery	O'Connor	American novelist and short story writer
	Sinclair	Lewis	American novelist and short story writer
	Richard	Yates	American fiction writer
11	Mrs.	Kimble	Beth's acquaintance
	Walter	Cronkite	American broadcaster
	Martin Luther	King Jr.	American civil rights activist
	Ralph	Abernathy	American civil rights activist
	Fred	Shuttlesworth	American minister and civil rights activist
	John F.	Kennedy	35th U.S. President
	Renate	Badenhorst	Maid
	Enid		Lawrence's wife
12	The	Betty's	Refers to Margaret, Viv, Bitsy, and Charlotte
	Rhett	Butler	Fictional character
14	Buster		One of Bitsy's cats
	Johnny	Cash	American singer-songwriter
	Lilith		One of Bitsy's cats
	Oscar		One of Bitsy's cats
	Bob		One of Bitsy's cats
14	Zeke		Bitsy's dog
	Nat King	Cole	American singer
	Frank	Sinatra	American singer and actor
	Naomi		Bitsy's aunt
	Becky		One of Bitsy's cousins
	Cindy		One of Bitsy's cousins
15	Lydia	Bee	Ten-year-old palomino
	Crystal		One of the three younger mares
	Dancer		One of the three younger mares
	Gracie		One of the three younger mares
	Joey		Stable hand at the barn
16	Rhonda		Young woman at the new accounts desk
	Mr.	Carlyle	Manager of the bank
	Skip	Halloran	Margaret's childhood neighbor
17	Dorothy	Sayers	English novelist and playwright
	Vera	Brittain	English nurse and writer
	Elizabeth	Anscombe	British philosopher
19	Anne Morrow	Lindbergh	American writer and aviator
	Valentina	Tereshkova	Member of the State Duma
	Medgar	Evers	American civil rights activist
20	Queen	Elizabeth	Former Queen of the United Kingdom
	George	Sand	French novelist
	Edith	Wharton	American writer and designer
	Virginia	Woolf	English writer
	Patricia		Charlotte's mother
22	Jerry		Walt's father
	Bernice		Walt's mother
23	Eugene	Buckman	Margaret's acquaintance
24	Earlene	Jackson	Nurse
	Sondra		Earlene's sister
	Franklin D.	Roosevelt	32nd U.S. President
	Joe		Earlene's husband
	Shirley		Earlene's daughter
	Alice	Brennan	Mrs. Graham's friend
25	Mr.	Ackerman	Walt's boss
	Alistair	MacLean	Scottish novelist
	Ruth		Margaret's mother
	Bill		Margaret's father
26	Steve		Bartender
	Clement	Greenberg	American essayist
	Betty	Smith	American playwright and novelist
27	David K.	MacGruber	Assistant Principal at Concordia Junior High School
	Mr.	Fosdick	Margaret's old assistant principal
	Mr.	Hoover	Band teacher
	Robert	Preston	American stage actor
	Shirley	Jones	American actress and singer
	Mrs.	MacGruber	Mr. MacGruber's wife
	Father	Valenti	Priest
	Nikolai	Fedorov	Elderly Russian gallery owner
28	Sally	Ann	Waitress
29	Judith	Shakespeare	Younger daughter of William Shakespeare
31	Brenda		Howard's secretary
	George Beverly	Gilbert III	Charlotte's father. Aka: G.G.
	Walter	Winchell	American columnist
	Suzy	Knickerbocker	American society columnist
	Edna	Green	Friendly middle-aged company manager
34	Rock	Hudson	American actor
35	Lee Harvey	Oswald	U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy
	Ngô Đình	Diệm	Former President of the Republic of Vietnam
	Carla	Hennessy	Magazine mail room employee

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