# Mrs. Honeychurch — A Room With a View character guide > Mrs. Honeychurch in A Room With a View by E. M. Forster. **Role:** supporting **Also known as:** Honeychurch, young Honeychurch **First appearance:** 0000-part-i-i-the-bertolini ## Snapshot Lucy's warm, managing mother at Windy Corner, who would rather books were written by men and cannot see why Charlotte Bartlett should not simply be squeezed in. ## Who they are 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 bombastic. She is generous to a fault and tone-deaf to the currents beneath her roof, insisting on Charlotte's visit while Lucy pleads that the house is already full. Her conventional good sense matters because it is the gravity Lucy must either settle into or escape. ## Relationships ### [Lucy Honeychurch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/lucy_honeychurch) _family_ Mrs. Honeychurch is Lucy's loving but conventional mother, who wants her daughter to make a proper match. ### [Cecil Vyse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/cecil_vyse) _social_ Cecil maintains a polite but distant relationship with his future mother-in-law, whom he views as provincial. ### [Freddy Honeychurch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/freddy_honeychurch) _family_ Freddy is Mrs. Honeychurch's affectionate but somewhat mischievous son. ### [Mr. Beebe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/mr_beebe) _friendship_ Mr. Beebe is a trusted family friend of the Honeychurches, often visiting and offering counsel. ### [Lucy Honeychurch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/lucy_honeychurch) _family_ Mrs. Honeychurch is Lucy's loving but conventional mother, who wants her daughter to make a proper match. ### [Cecil Vyse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/cecil_vyse) _social_ Cecil maintains a polite but distant relationship with his future mother-in-law, whom he views as provincial. ### [Mr. Beebe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/mr_beebe) _friendship_ Mr. Beebe is a trusted family friend of the Honeychurches, often visiting and offering counsel. ### [Freddy Honeychurch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/freddy_honeychurch) _family_ Freddy is Mrs. Honeychurch's affectionate but somewhat mischievous son. ### [Freddy Honeychurch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/freddy_honeychurch) _family_ Freddy is Mrs. Honeychurch's affectionate but somewhat mischievous son. ### [Mr. Beebe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/mr_beebe) _friendship_ Mr. Beebe is a trusted family friend of the Honeychurches, often visiting and offering counsel. ### [Cecil Vyse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/cecil_vyse) _social_ Cecil maintains a polite but distant relationship with his future mother-in-law, whom he views as provincial. ### [Lucy Honeychurch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/lucy_honeychurch) _family_ Mrs. Honeychurch is Lucy's loving but conventional mother, who wants her daughter to make a proper match. ## In the story ### [Fourth Chapter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/chapters/part-i-iv-fourth-chapter) Mentioned as disapproving of music, saying it leaves Lucy peevish, unpractical, and touchy. ### [Medieval](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/chapters/part-ii-viii-medieval) Mrs. Honeychurch is delighted by the engagement, though she struggles to express her feelings without sounding affected. She welcomes Cecil as one of the family. ### [IX: Lucy as a Work of Art](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/chapters/part-ii-ix-lucy-as-a-work-of-art) Mrs. Honeychurch enjoys showing off Cecil at the garden-party and later advises against letting to the Miss Alans, preferring male tenants. ### [Cecil as a Humourist](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/chapters/part-ii-x-cecil-as-a-humourist) Plays bumble-puppy and discusses the Miss Alans and the Emersons with the family. ### [How Miss Bartlett's Boiler Was So Tiresome](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii-how-miss-bartlett-s-boiler-was-so-tiresome) Mrs. Honeychurch urges Lucy to invite Miss Bartlett for a visit, and criticizes Cecil's rudeness and Lucy's attitude. ### [XV: The Disaster Within](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/chapters/part-ii-xv-the-disaster-within) Busily prepares for church, fussing over Minnie and Charlotte; defends orthodoxy and interacts warmly with the Emersons. ### [Lying to Mr. Beebe, Mrs. Honeychurch, Freddy, and the Servants](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii-lying-to-mr-beebe-mrs-honeychurch-freddy-and-the-servants) Initially resistant to the Greek scheme due to cost and drama, but is persuaded by Mr. Beebe's influence as a clergyman. ### [XIX: Lying to Mr. Emerson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/chapters/part-ii-xix-lying-to-mr-emerson) Accompanies Lucy to London, annoyed by the secrecy surrounding Lucy's broken engagement. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters/mrs_honeychurch - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_room_with_a_view_se/characters