Jacob's Room · Character
Sandra Wentworth Williams
A sophisticated married woman whose ease among celebrities and titled relatives masks a restlessness that draws her toward Jacob during his travels abroad.
supporting
Also known as Sandra, Williams
First appearance: x
As a supporting figure in Jacob's Room, Sandra Wentworth Williams is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Appears beautiful and dominant on the terrace, shares her childhood story, wears breeches under her skirt, and engages Jacob in conversation.
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Sandra Wentworth Williams belongs to the world of Lady Rocksbier's lunches, Boxall the butler, and telegrams arriving mid-cigar — a society Jacob glimpses but never quite owns. Married, admired, and quietly unmoored,…
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- Romantic
- Other
Character groups
- Paris artistic milieu
- Protagonist
- Cornwall family circle
- Cambridge social network
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romantic · ambivalent
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- Jacob Flanders
romantic · ambivalent
Sandra is a sophisticated, married woman with whom Jacob has a complex, intellectually… How this plays out →
- Jacob Flanders
romantic · ambivalent
Sandra is a sophisticated, married woman with whom Jacob has a complex, intellectually… How this plays out →
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