# A Bride of a Summer’s Day — Character guide

> Key figures in A Bride of a Summer’s Day by Catherine Louisa Pirkis.

- [Juliet Culvers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/juliet_culvers.md): Juliet moves through the Culvers family drama with a satirical tongue and a talent for needling her elders, whether teasing Clive about his jealousy or sparring with Mrs. Glynde over Arthur's African ambitions. Beneath h
- [Clive Redway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/clive_redway.md): Clive belongs to the Redway dynasty of financiers, yet his classical good looks and restless energy set him apart from his moneygrubbing forebears. He is caught between his engagement to the teasing Juliet and a barely c
- [Ida Culvers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/ida_culvers.md): Ida is the bride whose disappearance on her wedding day detonates the novel's central mystery, turning a society marriage into a desperate search across England and France. Her fortune and the clause in her marriage sett
- [Captain Sefton Culvers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/sefton_culvers.md): Sefton enters the story as the charming cousin everyone expected Ida to adore, but his white, crestfallen face after the wedding-day fiasco betrays something other than heartbreak. He agrees too readily to Lord Culvers's
- [Lord Culvers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/lord_culvers.md): Lord Culvers is a man of comfortable habits and mild temper, utterly unsuited to the crises that descend on him when Ida disappears on her wedding day. He clings to optimistic explanations, suggesting Ida will simply wri
- [Arthur Glynde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/arthur_glynde.md): Arthur Glynde is the hapless suitor whose devotion to Juliet has reduced him to declaring that he has lost heart and hope, and who now proposes to bury his sorrows in a perilous expedition into the African interior. His 
- [Mrs. Glynde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/mrs_glynde.md): Mrs. Glynde moves through the Culvers household as the mother of Arthur, the fair, dreamy-eyed poet whose verses Juliet is forever being drafted to hear. Alone with her son she can be sympathetic and firm, but face to fa
- [Francesca Xardez](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/francesca_xardez.md): Francesca ushers Ida into the shabby, ill-kept Palazzo and then keeps her waiting, disappearing into the sickroom of her young mistress Violante while the English visitor endures coarse food and intolerable heat. Agitate
- [Lady Culvers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/lady_culvers.md): Once Margaret Pearson's successor in the nursery and now mistress of the house, Lady Culvers finds her authority perpetually undermined by Ida and Juliet, who champion the ousted nurse Goody and treat their stepmother's 
- [John Skinner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/john_skinner.md): A servant or local figure with a limited but notable role.
- [Violante](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/violante.md): A character with a distinct presence, possibly connected to the Italian setting.
- [Marie Schira](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/marie_schira.md): Marie Schira is a name Clive recognizes from Parisian playbills, now a woman dying on an upper floor after her gauze sleeve caught fire at the Théâtre Beaumarchais. Her sister, a religious in a coal-scuttle bonnet, keeps
- [Peggy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/peggy.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or local woman.
- [Mr. Redway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/mr_redway.md): An older relative of Clive Redway, possibly a father or uncle.
- [Father Baldwin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bride_of_a_summer_s_day_se/characters/father_baldwin.md): A priest or religious figure who appears in the story.

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