THE TRANSIT OF VENUS Characters By Chapter	EDITOR: Remy Hale

CH FIRST NAME LAST NAME DESCRIPTION       Part I The Old World 1 Ted Tice An astronomer.   Tom   A cat.   Charmian Thrale Sefton Thrale's wife.   Sefton Thrale An eminent scientist.   Lord Lytton Served as Viceroy of India.   Grace Marian Bell Christian Thrale's fiancé.   Grasper   A dog. 2 Caroline Bell Grace's sister. aka: Caro.   Christian Thrale Professor Thrale's son.   Edmund Tice Sefton Thrale's acquaintance.   Paul Ivory Mrs. Thrale's godson. A playwright.   Humbert Wolfe An Italian-born British poet.   Rupert Brooke An English poet.   Rex Ivory A true poet. Paul's father.   Werner Heisenberg A German theoretical physicist.   James Cook A British explorer, navigator and captain of the British Royal Navy.   James Short A Scottish mathematician and manufacturer of optical instruments.   Guillaume Le Gentil A French astronomer. 3 Dora   Grace and Caro's half-sister.   Hesiod   A Greek poet.   Pindar   An Ancient Greek lyric poet.   John Singer Sargent An American expatriate artist.   Johannes Vermeer A Dutch painter. 4 Peter Paul Rubens A Flemish artist.   Alexandra   Queen of the United Kingdom.   Prince Edward   Duke of Kent.   Cecil Beaton British fashion photographer. 5 Prince Arthur   Duke of Connaught. Former Governor General of Canada.   Alexander Cambridge 1st Earl of Athlone. Former Gov.-Gen. of the Union of South Africa.   Joseph Banks An English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.   Miss McLood An organist.   Frederic Leighton A British painter. Aka: Lord Leigh.   Miss Garside The librarian.   Ernst   One of Dora's neighbors.   Rudolf   One of Dora's neighbors.   Winston Churchill Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.   Mr. Whittle An air-raid warden.   Miss Holster Caro's acquaintance.   Benito Mussolini Former Prime Minister of Italy.   Joan Brinsmead Founder of Heath Robinson Museum.   Mr. Marchmain Dora's acquaintance. 6 Douglas MacArthur An American five-star general.   Captain Girling Ted's acquaintance. 8 Beth Lomax A well-off widow from the Victoria League.   Bruce Ingot Dora's husband.   Tertia Drage Paul Ivory's fiancé. 9 Dan Lacey Ted's mother's acquaintance.   Tony Mott Ted's uncle.   Lorna   Ted's mother's cousin.   Cec   Lorna's mother.   Moggie   A tiger.   Oliver Wade A musical artist.   Marian   Caro's mother. 10 Mrs. Mullion Ted's acquaintance.   Mr. Truscotts Ted's acquaintance. Aka: Sir Eric.   Mr. Beardsley Ted's acquaintance.   Charles   Prince of Wales.   Nicholas Cartledge A captain. Tertia's acquaintance. 11 Gavin   Rex's elder son.   Ann Arbor Rex's acquaintance.     Wadding A professor. 12 Margaret   Ted Tice's wife.   Donald   One of Margaret's father's students.   Willie   One of Margaret's father's students.   Jacob Gould Schurman American-Canadian diplomat.   Cesar Franck A composer, pianist, organist and music teacher.   Clive Leadbetter An administrative officer.       Part II The Contacts 14 Dante   One of Ted Tice's students.   Leonardo   One of Ted Tice's students.   Jean Vilar A French actor.   Gerard Philipe A French actor.   Estes Kefauver Former U.S. senator.   Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th U.S. President.   Napoleon Bonafarte A French statesman and military leader.   Adam Vail American philanthropist.   Orson Welles American actor, director, writer and producer.   Breton   Ted's friend.   George de Cuevas A Chilean-born ballet impresario and choreographer.   Clement Attlee Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 15 Rastas   Major Ingot's Labrador.   Mandy   An actor.   William Shakespeare An English playwright.   Segonzac   A middle-class painter.   Mr. Whatsit Paul's acquaintance. 17 Valda Fenchurch One of Caro's officemates.   Milly   One of Caro's officemates.   Pam   One of Caro's officemates.   Miranda   One of Caro's officemates.   Mr. Smedleys One of the office girls' acquaintances.   Renshaw Browns One of the office girls' acquaintances.   Mr. Haynes An older man in Planning.   Mr. Dandridge Mr. Haynes' colleague.   Mrs. Doods A charwoman.   Mr. Bostock One of Valda's acquaintances.   Mr. Miles One of Valda's acquaintances.   Mr. Hoskins One of Valda's acquaintances.   Mr. Farquhar One of Valda's acquaintances. 18 Conrad   Bruce's acquaintance. 19 Lewis Morris U.S. Congressperson.   Alfred Comyn Lyall A British civil servant, literary historian and poet.   Scheherazade   The storyteller in the frame narrative of Middle collection of tales.   Monica   Paul Ivory's mother.   Elise   Paul's sister-in-law.   Juliette Recamier A French socialite.   Nicolas de Stael A French-Russian painter.   Madame De Sevigne A French aristocrat.   Mrs. Humphry Ward A British novelist.   George Byron An English peer, who was a poet and politician. Aka: Lord Byron. 20 Glad Pomfret Dora's friend.   Ernesto Prata A lawyer.   Richard Turpin An English highwayman. Aka: Dick.   Edmund Halley A British astronomer.   Sid Pomfret Glad's husband.   Gwen Morphew Glad's friend.   Fate   Major Ingot's friend.   Manoel Salgado A lawyer. 21 Meg Shentall Dora's new friend. 22 Robert Schumann A German composer.   Madonna   American singer-songwriter.   Hugh   Grace's second son.   Robert Browning An English poet and playwright.       Part III The New World 23 Archimedes   A Greek mathematician.   Aubrey Drake Graham A Canadian rapper.   Josie   Adam Vail's daughter. 25 Dot Cleaver Dora's friend.   Pablo Picasso Spanish painter.   Venus de Milo An Ancient Greek statue. 26 Myra   Josie's school friend.   Una   Adam's sister.   Hansi   Una's lover.   Charlotte   Adam's first wife. 27 Vincent van Gogh A Dutch painter.   Guy Burgess A British diplomat and Soviet agent.   Donald Maclean A British diplomat and member of the Cambridge Five spy.   Sardanapalus   The last king of Assyria, according to the Greek writer Ctesias.   Trish Bootle Dora's friend.   Hotspurr   A cat. 28 Miss Ratchitt The doyenne.   Cordelia Wade The secretary.   Armand Elphinstone Christian Thrale's colleague.   Jeremy   Christian Thrale's elder son.   Miss Mellish Christian Thrale's acquaintance.   Ruffus   A cat.   Jane Austen An English novelist.   Caesar Augustus Former Roman emperor.   Rupert   Grace Thrale's third son.       Part IV The Culmination 29 Aristophanes   A comic playwright.   Confucius   A Chinese philosopher.   Josephine Bonafarte The Empress of the French.   Burt   Josie's friend.   Ramon Tregear A poet.   Vicente   Caro's acquaintance. 31 Stevenson   Adam Vail's acquaintance.   McGeorge Bundy An American academic served as U.S. Nat'l security adviser.   Dean Rusk Former U.S. Secretary of State.   John F. Kennedy 35th U.S. President.   Robert McNamara Former U.S. Secretary of Defense.   Lyndon B. Johnson 36th U.S. President.   Cam Newton American football quarterback.   Margaret Jones Married to Antony Armstrong-Jones. Countess of Snowdon.   Richard Nixon 37th U.S. President.   Spiro Agnew Former Vice President of the United States.   George Washington 1st U.S. President. 32 Vendler   A scientist. 33 Angus Dance Rupert's doctor.   Sister Hubbard Rupert's acquaintance.   Jean   A pediatrician.   Manfred Mills Paul's acquaintance.   Ernie   Grace's acquaintance.   Mario   A hairdresser.   Aga Khan I The governor of Kirman.   Iris Murdock A British-Irish novelist.   Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn A Russian novelist, philosopher, historian.   Elissa   A boat.   Scipio Africanus A Roman general. 34 Felix   Paul's son.   Madeline   Manfred's wife.   Marcel Proust A French novelist.   Phobos   A dog.   Mars   Ted's son. 35 Victor Locker Paul's acquaintance.   Godfrey Locker Victor's father.   Howard   A decorator.   Adolf Hitler A German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party,   Valentine   Paul's adopted child. 36 John Edward Masefield An English poet and writer.   Frederick Delius An English composer.   Henry IV   King of England from 1399 to 1413.   Gregory VII   Born Hildebrand of Savana, was pope from 1073 to 1085.   William Wordsworth An English Roman poet.

The Transit of Venus suggested by Barbara Irwin