# Harriett — Honeycomb character guide

> Harriett in Honeycomb by Dorothy M. Richardson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Harriett A. Perne, Harriett's

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

A girl of the Corrie household whose tranquil brooding and silent conversations with her brother hint at a fate she may already half-know.

## Who they are

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 in bed, cantering the commons, waiting — and her musings are tranquil, her conversations silent. To Miriam, fresh from the straining, secretly ambitious children at Banbury Park, Harriett's dreamy talk of bays and strawberry roans is a relief, a glimpse of childhood shaped entirely by privilege and its quiet limitations.

## Relationships

### [Miriam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/miriam)

_family_

Harriett is Miriam's sister, and their relationship is fraught with sibling rivalry and underlying affection.

### [Gerald](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/gerald)

_family_

Gerald and Harriett are siblings, sharing a close bond and often teaming up to deal with Miriam's dramas.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/chapters/i)

Mentioned as one of the children; Miriam observes her during dinner.

### [Homecoming and Wedding Celebrations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/chapters/x)

Her wedding is the central event; Miriam reflects on her laughter and absurdity, and feels Harriett has taken the old life away.

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