All The Bookshop characters Listed With Descriptions

All T characters Listed With Descriptions

THE BOOKSHOP

by Penelope Fitzgerald

Characters By Chapter

EDITOR:
Remy Hale

QUICK EDITION (QE)

CH	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	DESCRIPTION
1	Florence	Green	A middle-aged widow who opens a bookshop in the small town of Hardborough
	Charlie	Green	Florence's husband
	Mr.	Keble	The bank manager
	William	Shakespeare	English playwright and poet
	Austin	Cambridge	The owner of the bookshop Florence Green wishes to open
	Mr.	Raven	The man who helps Florence Green open her bookshop
	Mr. Edmund	Brundish	A wealthy and reclusive widower
2	Jessie	Welford	A dressmaker
	General Bruno	Gamart	Violet Gamart's husband
	Mrs. Violet	Gamart	A local socialite
	Sam	Wilkins	One of Florence's acquaintances
	Mr.	Drury	A solicitor
	Mr. Thomas	Thornton	Florence's solicitor
	Charles	Sorley	A British officer
	Milo	North	A man who works for the BBC in London
	Kattie		Milo's partner
3	Melody	Gipping	Christine's sister
	Christine	Gipping	A young girl who becomes Florence's assistant in the bookshop
	Mr.	Deben	A local resident and unsuccessful businessman
	Nelson	Cottage	The name of the bookshop that Florence Green opens
	Mrs.	Traill	A local resident who opposes Florence Green's bookshop
4	Wally		One of Florence's acquaintances
	Mrs.	Brundish	Edmund Brundish's wife
	Mrs.	Gipping	Christine's mother
	John	Gipping	Christine's father
	Ivy	Welford	Jessie's relative
	Mrs.	Keble	The banker's wife
	Mrs.	Thornton	Mr. Thornton's wife
5	Janet		One of Florence's acquaintances
	Margaret		One of Christine's siblings
	Peter		One of Christine's siblings
	Theodore	Gill	An American ichthyologist
6	Florence	Nightingale	An English social reformer and statistician
	William	Blake	An English poet and painter
	Graham	Greene	Canadian actor and musician
7	Vladimir	Nabokov	Russian-American novelist and poet
8	Joseph	Stalin	Revolutionary and former Minister of the Soviet Union
	Franklin D.	Roosevelt	The 32nd U.S. President
	Winston	Churchill	Statesman and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
	Stanley	Matthews	English footballer
	William Somerset	Maugham	A writer
	Wilfred	Pickles	An English actor and radio presenter
	Lonnie	Donegan	A British singer and songwriter
9	Prince	Charles	Formerly known as the Prince of Wales; now King Charles III
	King	Herod	The King of Judea

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