# In Darkest London — Character guide

> Key figures in In Darkest London by Ada Elizabeth Chesterton.

- [Kitty Grimshaw](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_darkest_london_se/characters/kitty_grimshaw.md): Kitty belongs to the intimate world the narrator leaves behind when she walks out one February evening with no money and only her own personality between her and starvation. Her presence haunts the experiment: every doss
- [Dick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_darkest_london_se/characters/dick.md): Dick moves through the world the narrator has abandoned, a keeper of her real identity while she poses as a destitute cook with a brown-paper parcel. He embodies the tension between the comfortable life she left and the 
- [the Master](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_darkest_london_se/characters/the_master.md): The Master represents the arbitrary power that governs the lives of London's working poor, the person whose whim can mean a bed or a night on the pavement. For the narrator, every encounter with such authority is a test 
- [Ida](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_darkest_london_se/characters/ida.md): Ida inhabits the precarious female economy of hostels, lodgings, and casual work, where alliances form fast and dissolve faster. She is the kind of woman who notices too much, and the narrator must decide how much of her
- [Millie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_darkest_london_se/characters/millie.md): Millie survives on the margins of the marginal, her nickname a casual cruelty that follows her through the shelters and doss-houses. She is both warning and mirror to the narrator, showing what London does to women who c
- [George Gissing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_darkest_london_se/characters/george_gissing.md): A named individual, possibly a historical figure or acquaintance.
- [Poor Alice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_darkest_london_se/characters/poor_alice.md): A tragic figure, likely a victim of poverty or circumstance.
- [Annie Turner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_darkest_london_se/characters/annie_turner.md): A named woman with a brief but distinct role.

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