# Thérèse Callendar — Early Autumn character guide

> Thérèse Callendar in Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Thérèse, the swarthy passionate Thérèse

**First appearance:** 0006-iii

## Snapshot

Sabine's swarthy, clever, fiercely independent daughter, secretly in love with a man who has never really seen her.

## Who they are

Thérèse Callendar has carried Jean de Cyon as a private tragic romance since she was a schoolgirl in Saint-Cloud, writing him into her hidden diary and measuring every suitable young man against his image. She is too proud and too intelligent to confess it, and her mother and Sabine have guessed anyway. When Jean arrives at Brook Cottage and turns his attention toward Sybil, Thérèse must watch the fantasy she has guarded for years dissolve in front of her—a quiet, cutting education in the difference between what she imagined and what she is.

## In the story

### [The Ball at Pentlands](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/early_autumn_se/chapters/i)

Sabine's daughter, introduced at the ball alongside Sybil, though she attracts little interest compared to her mother.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/early_autumn_se/chapters/iv)

Returns from catching frogs to dissect, muddy and untidy. Sabine reflects that she has molded Thérèse to be impervious to hurt.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/early_autumn_se/chapters/iv)

Mentioned as Sabine's daughter, whom Sabine had hoped Jean would be interested in.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/early_autumn_se/chapters/v)

Mentioned as being with Sybil and Sabine in Paris, and later as having a laboratory at Brook Cottage where she works with frogs and insects.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/early_autumn_se/chapters/ii)

Spies on Sybil and Jean from the hilltop, armed with an insect-net, and is angrily confronted by Jean.

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