# Eliza Floyd — Aurora Floyd character guide

> Eliza Floyd in Aurora Floyd by M. E. Braddon.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Eliza, poor Eliza Floyd, Miss Eliza Percival, Miss Percival, Eliza Percival

**First appearance:** 0000-i-how-a-rich-banker-married-an-actress

## Snapshot

Archibald Floyd's first wife, a former actress whose brief, passionate marriage and early death cast a long shadow over her daughter Aurora's inheritance and reputation.

## Who they are

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 dies young, leaving behind a husband who mourns her for decades and a daughter whose impulsive, theatrical temperament seems to inherit her mother's blood. Her memory is the buried root of the novel's central question: how much of Eliza lives on in Aurora, and how much will the world punish her for it?

## Relationships

### [Archibald Floyd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/archibald_floyd)

_family_

Archibald and Eliza Floyd are married, with Eliza being Aurora's stepmother and a stabilizing presence in the household.

### [Samuel Prodder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/samuel_prodder)

_social_

Eliza Floyd and Samuel Prodder are acquaintances through their connection to the Floyd household, with Eliza treating him kindly.

### [Samuel Prodder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/characters/samuel_prodder)

_social_

Eliza Floyd and Samuel Prodder are acquaintances through their connection to the Floyd household, with Eliza treating him kindly.

## In the story

### [How a Rich Banker Married an Actress](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/chapters/i-how-a-rich-banker-married-an-actress)

The former actress Eliza Prodder, now Mrs. Floyd, who is lighthearted about the scandal but careful to shield her husband from the worst of the rumors.

### [Aurora](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/chapters/ii-aurora)

Aurora's deceased mother, whose romantic name and portrait are mentioned; her history is kept secret from Aurora.

### [John Mellish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/chapters/v-john-mellish)

Mrs. Alexander Floyd selects the applicants for the governess position and interviews them, ultimately choosing Mrs. Powell.

### [Captain Prodder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/aurora_floyd_se/chapters/xx-captain-prodder)

Deceased wife of Archibald Floyd and sister of Samuel Prodder; her memory is evoked when Prodder arrives.

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