# Mrs. Knox — Fanny’s First Play character guide

> Mrs. Knox in Fanny’s First Play by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Knox, Margaret, Mrs. Knox Margaret, Margaret Startled, Meg

**First appearance:** 0001-fanny-s-first-play

## Snapshot

A matriarch who keeps her household running on religion and respectability, even as her daughter slips beyond both.

## Who they are

Mrs. Knox holds her family together with prayer, work, and an unshakable sense of what people will think. When her daughter vanishes for a fortnight, she is the one who spots Margaret in the street and sends her husband running to catch the man—action first, anguish later. Her fierce, practical piety sets the moral temperature of the Knox home, and her refusal to let trouble stop the day's work makes her both admirable and a little frightening.

## Relationships

### [Juggins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/juggins)

_professional_

Juggins serves Mrs. Knox as a butler, with interactions typical of a servant and mistress.

### [Margaret Knox](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/margaret_knox)

_family_

Margaret and Mrs. Knox are mother and daughter, with a close familial bond.

### [Bobby Brighton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/bobby_brighton)

_social_

Bobby and Mrs. Knox are acquaintances, with Mrs. Knox being the mother of his romantic interest.

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