Heartbreak House · Character
Lady Utterword
Shotover's other daughter, returned from colonial exile with a riding habit, a worldly husband, and a brisk contempt for her family's neurotic idleness.
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Also known as Lady Utterword, Lady Utterword Hesione, Lady Utterword Randall, Lady Utterword Randall the Rotter, Lady Utterword Papa, Lady Utterword Nurse, Lady Utterword Providence, Ariadne, Meanwhile Ariadne
First appearance: heartbreak house
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Lady Utterword has spent years abroad as the wife of a colonial governor and returns to Heartbreak House with the air of someone inspecting a badly run estate. She diagnoses the house's problem as a lack of horses—the…
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- Family
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- Heartbreak House Inhabitants
- Peripheral Social Figures
- Protagonist
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- Hesione Hushabye
family · ambivalent
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- Ellie Dunn
social · neutral
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