# Emily of New Moon — Character guide

> Key figures in Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery.

- [Emily Byrd Starr](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/emily_byrd_starr.md): After her father's death leaves her penniless, Emily is claimed by the Murray aunts she has never met and transplanted to the stern, beautiful world of New Moon. She is a creature of vivid inner life—writing stories in h
- [Aunt Elizabeth Murray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/aunt_elizabeth.md): Aunt Elizabeth rules New Moon with a code of duty, dignity, and unbending principle, and she takes Emily in less from love than from Murray obligation. She is genuinely scandalized by Emily's writing, her curses, and her
- [Miss Brownell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/miss_brownell.md): Miss Brownell is the kind of teacher who mistakes cruelty for discipline, and she takes an immediate, personal dislike to Emily's imaginative independence. Her public humiliations drive Emily into a private anguish that 
- [Dean Priest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/dean_priest.md): Dean Priest is a Murray cousin by blood and a wanderer by temperament, a man whose bitterness and erudition make him a strange companion for a young girl. He talks to Emily as an equal, feeding her hunger for Athens, Rom
- [Aunt Laura Murray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/aunt_laura.md): Where Aunt Elizabeth commands, Aunt Laura soothes; she is the aunt who slips Emily small comforts and defends her when she can, without ever quite daring to defy the family code outright. Her tenderness is real but timid
- [Father Cassidy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/father_cassidy.md): Emily's beloved, poetic father who dies before the story begins.
- [Cousin Jimmy Murray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/cousin_jimmy.md): Cousin Jimmy is called simple by the world, but his garden is a work of genius and his heart is the warmest at New Moon. He becomes Emily's first true friend in the house, sharing her love of growing things and offering 
- [Great-Aunt Nancy Priest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/great_aunt_nancy.md): Wealthy, eccentric mistress of Wyther Grange, whose sharp tongue and unpredictable fancies make her a test Emily must charm.
- [Perry Miller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/perry_miller.md): Rough, ambitious hired boy from Stovepipe Town who matches Emily's pride with his own hunger to rise above his birth.
- [Teddy Kent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/teddy_kent.md): Quiet, gifted boy whose drawings and gentle spirit make him Emily's kindred soul among the Blair Water children.
- [Ellen Greene](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/ellen_greene.md): Blunt, superstitious housekeeper who tends Emily's dying father and lectures the grieving child on propriety and gratitude.
- [Ilse Burnley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/ilse_burnley.md): Wild, red-haired whirlwind of Blair Water, whose fiery temper and fierce loyalty make her Emily's most electric companion.
- [Caroline Priest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/caroline_priest.md): Dean Priest's spinster sister, keeper of the Priest family home.
- [Mr. Carpenter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/mr_carpenter.md): Crusty, drink-soaked schoolmaster whose gruff honesty and sharp eye single out Emily's writing for both praise and correction.
- [Rhoda Stuart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/rhoda_stuart.md): Jealous, spiteful classmate of Emily's at the Shrewsbury school.
- [Aunt Ruth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/aunt_ruth.md): Emily's other Murray aunt, strict and less sympathetic than Laura.
- [Dr. Burnley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/dr_burnley.md): Ilse's distracted, grieving father, the town doctor.
- [Saucy Sal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/saucy_sal.md): Emily's beloved doll from her childhood in the house in the hollow.
- [Uncle Wallace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/uncle_wallace.md): Wealthy, domineering Murray uncle who disapproves of Emily's writing.
- [Lofty John](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/lofty_john.md): Irish neighbor who builds a fence that sparks a feud with the Murrays.
- [Mike II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/mike_ii.md): Emily's faithful pet cat at New Moon.
- [Mrs. Kent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/mrs_kent.md): Teddy's reclusive, mentally fragile mother.
- [Douglas Starr](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/douglas_starr.md): Emily's deceased father, a journalist and poet.
- [Old Kelly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/old_kelly.md): An old Irish neighbor who tells stories and befriends Emily.
- [Beatrice Burnley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/beatrice_burnley.md): Ilse's deceased mother, a source of family tragedy.
- [Juliet Murray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emily_of_new_moon_se/characters/juliet_murray.md): A beautiful, tragic Murray aunt who died young.

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