# A Room With a View — Character guide

> Key figures in A Room With a View by E. M. Forster.

- [Lucy Honeychurch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/lucy_honeychurch.md): A young Englishwoman whose secret kiss on an Italian hillside keeps haunting her respectable life, forcing her to choose between convention and her own unruly heart.
- [Charlotte Bartlett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/charlotte_bartlett.md): Lucy's anxious, well-meaning cousin and chaperone, whose fussy propriety and frayed gloves mask a talent for managing other people's romances.
- [Cecil Vyse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/cecil_vyse.md): Lucy's clever, condescending fiancé, who treats her as a beautiful object to be admired rather than a person to be understood.
- [George Emerson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/george_emerson.md): A brooding, unconventional young railway clerk whose sudden passions and awkward honesty unsettle Lucy's carefully ordered world.
- [Mr. Emerson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/mr_emerson_senior.md): George's blunt, warm-hearted father, whose tactless honesty about love and kindness scandalizes and liberates everyone around him.
- [Mr. Beebe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/mr_beebe.md): A genial, observant clergyman who watches the Honeychurch household with amused detachment and a fondness for Lucy's piano playing.
- [Freddy Honeychurch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/freddy_honeychurch.md): Freddy is the son of Windy Corner, forever playing plum-stone games at the dinner table while his mother inveighs against women novelists and his sister's engagement unfolds around him. Where Cecil Vyse composes himself 
- [Miss Lavish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/miss_lavish.md): Miss Lavish holds court in Santa Croce and on carriage drives, spinning plots of love, murder, and abduction while declaring her sympathies lie with Italians rather than her own countrymen. She is emancipated, in Miss Ba
- [Mrs. Honeychurch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/mrs_honeychurch.md): Mrs. Honeychurch presides over the household arrangements, the garden party, and the small social calculations that will decide her daughter's future, all with genuine affection and a horror of anything sentimental or bo
- [Mr. Eager](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/mr_eager.md): Mr. Eager moves through Florence as a man of private galleries and unhackneyed views, contemptuous of Baedeker and of the herd of his countrymen, yet fussily proprietary about who deserves to enter a Renaissance villa. H
- [Miss Alans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/miss_alans.md): Two elderly spinster sisters who travel together.
- [Miss Catherine Alan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/miss_catherine_alan.md): One of the elderly Alan sisters.
- [Sir Harry Otway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/sir_harry_otway.md): A local landowner and neighbor of the Honeychurches.
- [Minnie Beebe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/minnie_beebe.md): Mr. Beebe's young niece.
- [Mrs. Vyse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/mrs_vyse.md): Cecil's mother, a sophisticated London socialite.

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