# Madge Dalrymple — Ghost Stories character guide

> Madge Dalrymple in Ghost Stories by E. F. Benson.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Madge, Daisy

**First appearance:** 0000-the-room-in-the-tower

## Snapshot

A young woman drawn into romantic and eerie entanglements, alert to the shift from fireside jesting to the real hide-and-seek of lurking terrors.

## Who they are

Madge Dalrymple belongs to the social world of country-house gatherings where croquet is played for the sake of saying it was played, and ghost stories are traded as after-dinner currency. She is sensitive to atmosphere — the moment the childish gaiety of an evening is withdrawn, she registers it — and her romantic attachments place her at the centre of stories where affection and the supernatural press against each other. Her presence keeps the eerie events tethered to ordinary feeling, so that the horror lands on someone the reader cares about.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_romantic_

Madge Dalrymple shares a romantic connection with the narrator, marked by affection and tension.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_romantic_

Madge Dalrymple shares a romantic connection with the narrator, marked by affection and tension.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_romantic_

Madge Dalrymple shares a romantic connection with the narrator, marked by affection and tension.

## In the story

### [How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/how-fear-departed-from-the-long-gallery)

Protagonist who confronts the twin ghosts in the long gallery and overcomes fear through pity.

### [The Outcast](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-outcast)

Madge is present at the funeral and whispers 'the kindly earth will not receive her,' echoing the medieval curse.

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