# Anna of the Five Towns — Character guide

> Key figures in Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett.

- [Anna Tellwright](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_of_the_five_towns_se/characters/anna_tellwright.md): A dutiful daughter raised in joyless thrift, Anna inherits sudden wealth and must decide whether her father's money or her own conscience will govern her life.
- [Henry Mynors](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_of_the_five_towns_se/characters/henry_mynors.md): A rising young businessman of cautious, calculating affection, Henry courts Anna with the same prudence he brings to chapel committees and balance sheets.
- [Willie Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_of_the_five_towns_se/characters/willie_price.md): The gentle, hapless son of a defaulting debtor, Willie becomes the object of Anna's compassion and the town's contempt in equal measure.
- [Ephraim Tellwright](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_of_the_five_towns_se/characters/ephraim_tellwright.md): A Wesleyan financier who counts coins and souls with equal dexterity, Ephraim rules his household with the same iron thrift he brings to circuit accounts.
- [Agnes Tellwright](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_of_the_five_towns_se/characters/agnes_tellwright.md): Anna's younger sister, a schoolgirl who anticipates her father's tyranny at every turn and finds quiet joy in her sister's rare good fortune.
- [Beatrice Sutton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_of_the_five_towns_se/characters/beatrice_sutton.md): Anna's vivacious, chocolate-bearing friend, Beatrice moves through the Five Towns with easy confidence and an insatiable appetite for other people's business.
- [Mrs. Sutton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_of_the_five_towns_se/characters/mrs_sutton.md): Mrs. Sutton occupies a respectable place in the Five Towns' chapel world, her Monday-night class drawing women like Anna Tellwright who hunger for guidance beyond their fathers' grim households. She is gentle where the t
- [Titus Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_of_the_five_towns_se/characters/titus_price.md): Titus Price scrapes along in the Five Towns' commercial margins, his affairs tangled with the Tellwrights' money and his son Willie's future. He is a man of chapel respectability and pinched means, the kind whose obligat
- [Mr. Sutton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_of_the_five_towns_se/characters/mr_sutton.md): Beatrice's father, a local alderman.
- [Miss Sarah Vodrey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_of_the_five_towns_se/characters/miss_sarah_vodrey.md): An elderly spinster and friend of the Tellwrights.
- [Mr. Banks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_of_the_five_towns_se/characters/mr_banks.md): A local businessman and acquaintance.
- [Alderman Sutton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anna_of_the_five_towns_se/characters/alderman_sutton.md): Another Sutton relative, possibly Mr. Sutton's brother.

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