# Honeycomb — Character guide

> Key figures in Honeycomb by Dorothy M. Richardson.

- [Miriam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/miriam.md): Miriam moves through other people's households as a resident governess, watching, laughing, and privately refusing the future her father's debts have laid out for her. When May comes she feels she has reached the summit 
- [Mrs. Corrie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/mrs_corrie.md): Mrs. Corrie presides over the Corrie household with a plaintive warmth, urging Miriam to abandon her lonely room and join the revelry below. Her little sketchbook lingers in Miriam's mind as evidence of a life she might 
- [Mr. Corrie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/mr_corrie.md): Mr. Corrie arrives for weekends with parties of guests, filling the house with strangers and the silvery clatter of entrée dishes. His quiet gallantry toward Miriam, defending her against Mrs. Craven's resentment, gives 
- [Harriett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/harriett.md): Harriett and her brother Joey inhabit a dainty, grown-up tea-time world of preserves and cress sandwiches, their strange untroubled faces masking a kind of prison. She has known nothing else for twelve years — breakfast 
- [Eve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/eve.md): Eve is being swept into the Henderson family's orbit by Bennett and Gerald, her giggling a new and perhaps borrowed manner, like the girls at the tennis club. She flings anemones on the table and calls Miriam's decoratio
- [Mr. Staple-Craven](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/mr_staple_craven.md): Mr. Staple-Craven moves through the Corrie social world — dinners, billiards, the green-shaded lamps — a man whose unconscious brow contradicts his noisy surface. His wife's silent, mouthing resentment shadows him, and h
- [Mrs. Staple-Craven](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/mrs_staple_craven.md): Seated in the shadow of the mantelpiece, a faint mass of soft green and mealy white, Mrs. Craven occupies the social margins of the evening while her silent face seems to Miriam to be mouthing and complaining aloud. Her 
- [Mrs. Kronen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/mrs_kronen.md): A neighbor or acquaintance, part of the broader community surrounding the Corries.
- [Joey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/joey.md): A servant or local character, known for his age and possibly simple nature.
- [Wiggerson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/wiggerson.md): A minor character, likely a servant or tradesman, appearing in the narrative.
- [Sybil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/sybil.md): A young woman, possibly a friend or relative, who interacts with the main characters.
- [Sarah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/sarah.md): A servant or working-class woman, appearing in domestic scenes.
- [Bob Greville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/bob_greville.md): A male character, possibly a friend or acquaintance of the Corrie family.
- [Gerald](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/gerald.md): A young man, likely a suitor or relative, mentioned in the narrative.
- [Bennett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/bennett.md): A character, possibly a servant or local figure, with limited appearances.
- [Mélie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/melie.md): A French maid or servant, adding a touch of foreign character to the household.
- [Lilla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/lilla.md): A young girl or woman, possibly a child or younger sibling.
- [Mary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/mary.md): A common name; likely a servant or a minor relative.
- [Miss Tower](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/miss_tower.md): A woman of some standing, possibly a governess or companion.
- [Rollo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/rollo.md): A male character, possibly a dog or a minor human figure.

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