# A Popular Schoolgirl — Character guide

> Key figures in A Popular Schoolgirl by Angela Brazil.

- [Ingred Saxon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/ingred_saxon.md): Ingred is the kind of girl a form elects unanimously and then pushes toward the rostrum, cheeks aglow and dark eyes shining, promising to air every grievance at the School Council. Her talent for music and her quick, war
- [Bess Haselford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/bess_haselford.md): Bess arrives at the College looking like a Reynolds child angel, lost and forlorn until Ingred takes her under her wing. Beneath the shyness is real nerve: at the Abbey recital she fixes her eyes on the west window and p
- [Quenrede Saxon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/quenrede_saxon.md): Pretty Quenrede has left the College and discovered that emancipation is mostly boredom: a weekly art class, half-hearted practice, and no career that appeals. She misses the form's ready-made purpose and covers the loss
- [Verity Richmond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/verity_richmond.md): Verity is the friend who notices the verger has slipped off to tea and proposes they explore the parts of the Abbey no congregation ever sees. She scrambles after the Nuns' Ambulatory and the seventeenth-century peephole
- [Nora Clifford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/nora_clifford.md): When the Fifth needs a concert, Nora is the one stacking exercise books into a makeshift seat and ordering Ingred to fire away and stop twittering nonsense. She is practical where Ingred is dreamy, and her blunt encourag
- [Fil Trevor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/fil_trevor.md): Fil endures the music master's grim politeness with open resentment, declaring she would rather hear comic opera any day than his cantatas. Her rebellion is small and funny, but it marks the line between girls who perfor
- [Lispeth Scott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/lispeth_scott.md): Lispeth moves through the hostel's tennis-and-cricket season as one of the group, more interested in the term's sporting ambitions than in her sister Quenrede's tangled prospects. Her lisp gives her a distinctive place i
- [Miss Burd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/miss_burd.md): Miss Burd presides over the College with a reputation for strictness tempered by fairness, the authority to whom sprained ankles and broken rules alike are referred. Her decisions set the boundaries the girls test, and h
- [Miss Strong](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/miss_strong.md): Miss Strong presides over Form Va with a temper as prickly as her pupils', capable of making the Age of Elizabeth thrilling one day and a dry catalogue the next. When Ingred is caught fondling desk mascots, Miss Strong's
- [Dr. Linton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/dr_linton.md): A local doctor and father of Kenneth.
- [Egbert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/egbert.md): An elderly servant or gardener at the Saxon home.
- [Beatrice Jackson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/beatrice_jackson.md): A schoolgirl who interacts with Ingred and friends.
- [Mr. Saxon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/mr_saxon.md): Father of Ingred and Quenrede.
- [Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/mother.md): Ingred and Quenrede's mother, a nurturing presence.
- [Athelstane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/athelstane.md): A historical figure referenced, possibly a family ancestor.
- [Mrs. Saxon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/mrs_saxon.md): Ingred's mother, often called Mother.
- [Francie Hall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/francie_hall.md): A schoolgirl and friend of the main characters.
- [Linda Slater](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/linda_slater.md): A schoolgirl with a reputation for vanity.
- [Father](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/father.md): Ingred's father, Mr. Saxon.
- [Dad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/dad.md): Informal term for Ingred's father.
- [Blossom Webster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/blossom_webster.md): A schoolgirl with a cheerful personality.
- [Kitty Saunders](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/kitty_saunders.md): A schoolgirl, part of the wider student body.
- [Old Mother Hubbard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/old_mother_hubbard.md): A nursery rhyme character referenced in the story.
- [Evie Irving](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_popular_schoolgirl_se/characters/evie_irving.md): A schoolgirl, friend of the main characters.

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