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Miss Charlotte Montague

Lovelace's cousin, a young woman of acknowledged virtue whose good opinion he courts almost as carefully as he courts Clarissa's.

supporting

Also known as Miss Charlotte Montague, Charlotte Montague, Charlotte, Miss Montague

First appearance: clarissa

As a supporting figure in Clarissa, Miss Charlotte Montague is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

Mentioned as unable to attend Clarissa due to a cold and sore throat, but intended to accompany her.
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Charlotte Montague moves in the same genteel circle as the Harlowe family and is repeatedly invoked by Lovelace as a witness to his respectability — the kind of cousin a man produces when he wants a woman to believe his intentions are serious. She is spoken of as virtuous, which makes her useful to him and dangerous to his schemes at the same time, since her actual presence would expose the gap between the marriage he promises and the one he intends. Her name functions in the early letters as a kind of social collateral, and the reader watches to see whether she will ever be called upon to make good on it.

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SMSally MartinTBThomas BeltonRMRichard MowbrayJTJames TourvilleBBBetty BarnesMCMiss Charlotte Monta…

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  • Aftermath
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