# The Innkeeper's Daughter — Don Quixote character guide

> The Innkeeper's Daughter in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0009-part-i-iii

## Who they are

The innkeeper's daughter who helps with Don Quixote's vigil.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-iii)

The other woman who assists; she girds on Don Quixote's sword and is asked to call herself 'Doña Tolosa'.

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xvi)

Assists her mother in tending to Don Quixote's wounds.

### [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xvii)

Mentioned by Don Quixote as the 'daughter of the lord of this castle' who supposedly visited him.

### [Which treats of the exalted adventure and rich prize of Mambrino's helmet, together with other things that happened to our invincible knight](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxi)

Referenced in Don Quixote's fantasy as the lady who admired him, though not present in this chapter.

### [XXXII Which treats of what befell Don Quixote's party at the inn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxxii)

Expresses her enjoyment of chivalric tales, particularly the laments of knights separated from their ladies.

### [Chapter XLIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xliii)

Signals to Don Quixote from the hole in the wall, participating in the trick.

### [Chapter XLIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xliv)

Asks Don Quixote to aid her father.

## Links

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