# Margaret Alton — Ghost Stories character guide

> Margaret Alton in Ghost Stories by E. F. Benson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Margaret

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

## Who they are

A woman caught between romantic currents and supernatural undertows, her presence sharpening the stakes whenever the ordinary world starts to fray.

## Relationships

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

_friendship_

Margaret Alton is a friend of the narrator, often involved in social and supernatural circles.

### [Hugh Graham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/characters/hugh_graham)

_romantic_

Hugh Graham and Margaret Alton share a romantic relationship, with deep affection and emotional bonds.

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

_friendship_

Margaret Alton is a friend of the narrator, often involved in social and supernatural circles.

### [Hugh Graham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/characters/hugh_graham)

_romantic_

Hugh Graham and Margaret Alton share a romantic relationship, with deep affection and emotional bonds.

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

_friendship_

Margaret Alton is a friend of the narrator, often involved in social and supernatural circles.

### [Hugh Graham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/characters/hugh_graham)

_romantic_

Hugh Graham and Margaret Alton share a romantic relationship, with deep affection and emotional bonds.

## In the story

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

Margaret is enthusiastic about planchette and unknowingly channels the ghostly gardener.

### [Roderick's Story](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/roderick-s-story)

The woman Roderick once loved; she married Richard Alton, suffered a tragic life, and died in the narrator's house three years prior.

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