# Mrs. Turton — A Passage to India character guide

> Mrs. Turton in A Passage to India by E. M. Forster.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mrs. Turton

**First appearance:** 0004-ii

## Who they are

The collector's wife, snobbish and racist.

## In the story

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_passage_to_india_se/chapters/iv)

Will receive ladies of Indian families who are out of purdah at the party.

### [Chapter V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_passage_to_india_se/chapters/v)

Reluctantly interacts with Indian ladies, displaying condescension and a sense of superiority.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_passage_to_india_se/chapters/xv)

Referenced as the source of Adela's assumption that Mohammedans insist on four wives.

### [Chapter XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_passage_to_india_se/chapters/xx)

Announces that Miss Quested is better; later makes loud jokes at bridge and questions Fielding's motives.

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