# Dangerous Ages — Character guide

> Key figures in Dangerous Ages by Rose Macaulay.

- [Rosalind Hilary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/rosalind_hilary.md): Rosalind wallows in the shallows at the family's birthday bathe, crying out admiration for Mrs. Hilary while noting, with relish, that the others have swum off and left her. She is big, fair, and lazily alive, a woman be
- [Nan Hilary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/nan_hilary.md): Nan writes in Chelsea rooms, drifts through the humanities like a cat in the sun, and is infinitely amused by her niece and nephew—often spiteful to them merely because they are young. Her worst fault is a cynical unkind
- [Gerda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/gerda.md): Gerda is twenty, yellow-haired, and earnest about politics and population in a way that both touches and needles her elders. She and Kay submit their literary efforts to Nan for criticism, believing in her powers and her
- [Barry Briscoe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/barry_briscoe.md): Barry works for the future, smiling encouragingly at infants in prams as 'the hope for the world,' and finds in Gerda's straight-thinking earnestness the citizen and mother of citizens he believes in. He argues politics 
- [Neville Bendish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/neville_bendish.md): Neville's forty-third birthday gathers the family and prompts her wry reckoning with the remote twenties and the extraordinary forties, ages she can hardly believe she has reached. She is the one person Nan has always to
- [Grandmama](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/grandmama.md): Grandmama reads Chekhov's Letters on her knees, having ordered the book because Gilbert and Nan praised it, and eyes Mrs. Hilary with a twinkle when she echoes 'Most' without conviction. She dismisses psychoanalysis by w
- [Pamela Neville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/pamela_neville.md): Neville's unmarried cousin in Hoxton, thirty-nine and done with ambition, whose plain talk about work, fame, and aging cuts through Neville's birthday discontent.
- [Jim Kenrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/jim_kenrick.md): A young man whose chapter turns the novel's lens on the younger generation, caught between the pull of romance and the restless ambitions of his own dangerous age.
- [Rodney Bendish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/rodney_bendish.md): A member of the Bendish family, often mentioned in social contexts.
- [Gilbert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/gilbert.md): A character possibly linked to literary allusions, with limited direct presence.
- [Stephen Lumley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/stephen_lumley.md): A minor character, possibly a professional or acquaintance.
- [Frances Carr](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/frances_carr.md): A woman with a distinct identity, possibly a friend or relative.
- [Richard Hilary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/richard_hilary.md): A member of the Hilary family, likely a father or uncle figure.
- [Margery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/margery.md): A minor female character, possibly a servant or relative.
- [Mr. Cradock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/mr_cradock.md): A doctor or professional figure consulted by the family.
- [Dr. Claude Evans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/dr_claude_evans.md): A psychoanalyst or medical doctor involved in character treatments.
- [Aunt Phyllis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/aunt_phyllis.md): An aunt figure, likely part of the extended family.
- [Mr. Digby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/mr_digby.md): A minor character, possibly a tradesman or acquaintance.
- [Father](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/father.md): A paternal figure, possibly deceased or absent.
- [Grandmother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dangerous_ages_se/characters/grandmother.md): Another grandmother figure, distinct from Grandmama.

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