# Crome Yellow — Character guide

> Key figures in Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley.

- [Denis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/denis.md): Denis arrives at Crome with a manuscript, a hopeless passion for Anne, and a habit of imagining himself the only fully conscious person in any crowd. When he secretly opens Jenny's caricature book and finds seven mercile
- [Mr. Scogan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/mr_scogan.md): Henry Wimbush's schoolfellow and exact contemporary, Scogan looks like an extinct lizard and talks like a one-man symposium, cornering guests with theories they never asked for. He treats other people's passions as speci
- [Anne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/anne.md): Anne drifts through Crome in attitudes of indolent grace, drawing Denis's adoration and Gombauld's painterly obsession without quite inviting either. When Denis finally kisses her after her fall, she protests that it spo
- [Gombauld](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/gombauld.md): Gombauld works furiously on a portrait of Anne that is terribly like her and, he decides, the most malicious of lies — a doll's mask with the inward lights extinguished. His restless, unsatisfied desire converts itself i
- [Henry Wimbush](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/henry_wimbush.md): Henry Wimbush presides over Crome with the mild dignity of a man more at home in the eighteenth century than his own, piqued only when his wife mocks the masters of his house. His great project is the History of Crome, a
- [Priscilla Wimbush](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/priscilla_wimbush.md): Priscilla Wimbush holds court from her boudoir, sucking a silver pencil over her horoscopes and cheerfully interrupting guests before they can answer her. She has buried thousands on racecourses, forcing Henry to sell hi
- [Mr. Barbecue-Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/barbecue_smith.md): Mr. Barbecue-Smith is the visiting literary celebrity at Crome, a man whose expansive self-satisfaction fills any room he warms himself in. He corners the young, uncertain Denis with unsolicited advice, boasting of writi
- [Ivor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/ivor.md): A young man associated with Mary, part of the house party.
- [Mary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/mary.md): A guest at Crome, involved in romantic entanglements with Ivor.
- [Jenny Mullion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/jenny_mullion.md): A quiet, observant guest who sketches caricatures.
- [Hercules Lapith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/hercules_lapith.md): A historical ancestor of the Wimbush family, subject of Henry's research.
- [Sir Ferdinando Lapith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/sir_ferdinando_lapith.md): Another historical Lapith ancestor, known for his eccentricities.
- [George Wimbush](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/george_wimbush.md): A relative of the Wimbush family, mentioned in the family history.
- [Mr. Wimbush](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/mr_wimbush.md): An older Wimbush family member, possibly Henry's father.
- [Mr. Bodiham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/mr_bodiham.md): The local vicar, a stern and religious figure.
- [Filomena](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/filomena.md): A historical figure, possibly a Lapith ancestor.
- [Mrs. Wimbush](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/mrs_wimbush.md): Priscilla Wimbush, often referred to by her married name.
- [Georgiana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/georgiana.md): A young woman from a past generation of the family.
- [Mrs. Bodiham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/crome_yellow_se/characters/mrs_bodiham.md): The vicar's wife, a quiet presence in the village.

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