# Donna Inez — Don Juan character guide

> Donna Inez in Don Juan by Lord Byron.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Inez, the Donna Inez

**First appearance:** 0006-canto-i

## Snapshot

Juan's learned, domineering mother, whose mastery of the sciences and the marriage market leaves her son educated in everything except how to resist a woman.

## Who they are

Donna Inez presides over Juan's childhood in Seville as a bluestocking moralist who can cite philosophy and arrange a match with equal confidence. Her running war with her husband, Don José, and her zeal for managing Juan's education and future make her both comic and quietly menacing. She sets the poem's tone of satiric domesticity and gives Juan the polished innocence that the world will spend the rest of the epic exploiting.

## In the story

### [Don Juan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/chapters/don-juan)

Juan's learned and moralizing mother, who dominates his early upbringing.

### [Canto I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/chapters/canto-i)

Juan's mother, who controls his education and social circle, ensuring he is kept from worldly influences.

### [Canto II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/chapters/canto-ii)

Sends Juan to Cadiz for embarkation and starts a Sunday school after his departure.

### [Canto X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/chapters/canto-x)

Responds to Juan's letter with advice on finances and religion, praising the Empress's maternal love.

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