# Aurora Floyd — Character guide

> Key figures in Aurora Floyd by M. E. Braddon.

- [Aurora Floyd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/aurora_floyd.md): Aurora Floyd returns to Felden Woods glittering and ungovernable, riding harder and speaking plainer than the county expects of a rich man's daughter. She loves her father fiercely and her own will more, and when Talbot 
- [John Mellish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/john_mellish.md): John Mellish presides over Mellish Park from a sunny room full of whips, foils, and his father's portrait, adored by tenants and grooms alike. He worships Aurora with a simplicity that is both his glory and his danger, b
- [Talbot Bulstrode](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/talbot_bulstrode.md): Talbot Bulstrode is the 11th Hussars' strangest officer — black-letter folios, mathematical instruments, and a sense of honour he treats as the strongest part of his nature. Warned that there is 'some mystery about the l
- [James Conyers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/james_conyers.md): Conyers arrives trailing the smell of the stable and the racetrack, a man whose good looks and easy insolence make him useful to gentlemen and fatal to their secrets. He knows something about Aurora Floyd's vanished year
- [Archibald Floyd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/archibald_floyd.md): Archibald Floyd is the best fellow in Christendom by his friends' account — a self-made man of Felden Woods who gives Aurora a birthday ball, a fortune, and a father's uncritical devotion. His love is the one thing in th
- [Lucy Floyd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/lucy_floyd.md): Lucy Floyd has read Gibbon and Niebuhr from title-page to printer's name, speaks half a dozen languages, and looks on her cousin as a big brilliant dunce. She is gentle, literal, and utterly unable to imagine the reasons
- [Stephen Hargraves](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/stephen_hargraves.md): Known around the estate as 'the Softy,' Stephen Hargraves nurses a slow-burning resentment toward the beautiful heiress whose world is so far above his own. His limited mind fixes on slights with a tenacity that more int
- [Samuel Prodder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/samuel_prodder.md): Captain Samuel Prodder belongs to the rougher, seafaring branch of the family that Archibald Floyd's wealth has left behind, and his arrival among the polished drawing-rooms is a collision of worlds. He adores Aurora wit
- [Eliza Floyd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/eliza_floyd.md): Eliza Percival was an actress who married the young banker Archibald Floyd against the wishes of his respectable family, and her origins become the unspoken stain that polite society never quite lets Aurora forget. She d
- [Joseph Grimstone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/joseph_grimstone.md): Grimstone arrives at the scene of Conyers's death as the representative of official, unsentimental justice, and his professional habits of observation cut through the evasions of everyone around him. He has no stake in t
- [Mrs. Walter Powell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/mrs_walter_powell.md): Mrs. Walter Powell came to teaching after six months of marriage and a lifetime of pinched respectability, and she has grown sour on the world that gave her so little. Installed at Felden Woods as Aurora's chaperone and 
- [Tom Chivers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/tom_chivers.md): Tom Chivers moves in the rough, transactional world of the turf, where loyalties are bought and secrets are currency, and his association with Conyers ties him to the darker business that shadows Aurora's past. He is the
- [John Pastern](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/john_pastern.md): Pastern belongs to the respectable county world of magistrates and landowners, the sort of man John Mellish writes to when he needs a horse-trainer or a matter quietly looked into. His recommendation of James Conyers is 
- [Alexander Floyd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/alexander_floyd.md): Archibald Floyd's brisk, practical sister-in-law.
- [William Dork](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/william_dork.md): A lawyer who manages legal affairs for the Floyd family.
- [Mr. Lofthouse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/mr_lofthouse.md): A patient clergyman who marries Aurora and John Mellish.
- [Lady Raleigh Bulstrode](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/lady_ralleigh_bulstrode.md): Talbot Bulstrode's aristocratic mother.
- [Matthew Harrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/matthew_harrison.md): A Birmingham businessman and friend of Archibald Floyd.
- [Langley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/langley.md): A simple-minded servant at Mellish Park.
- [Dawson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/dawson.md): A servant or tradesman who appears briefly.
- [Eliza Prodder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/eliza_prodder.md): Captain Prodder's wife, a kind but quiet woman.
- [Constance Trevyllian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/constance_trevyllian.md): A young woman briefly courted by Talbot Bulstrode.
- [Andrew Floyd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/andrew_floyd.md): An ancestor of Archibald Floyd mentioned in family history.
- [Margaret Lofthouse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/margaret_lofthouse.md): Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lofthouse, a minor character.
- [Francis Maldon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/francis_maldon.md): A minor character associated with the racing world.

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