# Lady Audley’s Secret — Character guide

> Key figures in Lady Audley’s Secret by M. E. Braddon.

- [Robert Audley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/robert_audley.md): Robert Audley drifts through life with his dogs, his cigars, and his chambers in Figtree Court, until George Talboys disappears and leaves him the one man who cares enough to ask why. What begins as a half-hearted inquir
- [Lady Audley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/lady_audley.md): Lucy Graham rises from a village surgeon's household to mistress of Audley Court, adored by her husband and beloved by the poor, yet coldly resisted by her stepdaughter Alicia. Her terror of growing old, her restless nee
- [George Talboys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/george_talboys.md): George Talboys sails home from the goldfields of Australia with a fortune and a single hope: to find the wife he left behind. His joy collapses into grief when he learns she is dead, and he drifts to Audley Court as Robe
- [Sir Michael Audley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/sir_michael_audley.md): Sir Michael Audley is a country gentleman of comfortable habits, fond of his farms and his daughter, who stuns the neighborhood by wedding the beautiful Lucy Graham. His generous, uncritical love blinds him to the fricti
- [Alicia Audley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/alicia_audley.md): Alicia Audley loses her place as mistress of Audley Court the moment her father brings home a wife barely older than herself, and she refuses to pretend otherwise. She rides, sketches, and sulks, watching Robert's pale f
- [Phoebe Marks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/phoebe_marks.md): Phoebe Marks is the white-eyelashed attendant who reads French novels with her mistress and glides through the dark passages of Audley Court like a shadow of her. Her likeness to Lady Audley is subtle but real, and it dr
- [Luke Marks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/luke_marks.md): Luke Marks keeps the Castle Inn and keeps something else besides: a piece of knowledge he has turned into leverage, doling out punishment for every slight he believes he has suffered. Married to Phoebe, he is a man of gr
- [Clara Talboys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/clara_talboys.md): Clara Talboys is the sister of the vanished George, and she refuses the consolations of silence. Where Robert Audley hesitates, she presses; where he would rather look away, she extracts a promise and holds him to it. He
- [Mr. Harcourt Talboys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/mr_harcourt_talboys.md): George Talboys's stern and unforgiving father.
- [Helen Talboys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/helen_talboys.md): Helen Talboys married George in haste and was left behind when he sailed for Australia, a desertion that shadowed his conscience and his silence. Word of her death reached him through a newspaper notice, and from that ho
- [Georgey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/georgey.md): The young son of George and Helen Talboys.
- [Dr. Alwyn Mosgrave](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/dr_alwyn_mosgrave.md): A physician from London consulted about Lady Audley's sanity.
- [Mr. Maldon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/mr_maldon.md): Helen Talboys's father, a drunken former naval officer.
- [Miss Tonks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/miss_tonks.md): A gossipy spinster who boards at Mrs. Vincent's school.
- [Mr. Dawson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/mr_dawson.md): The local surgeon of Audley village.
- [Mrs. Plowson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/mrs_plowson.md): The woman who cares for little Georgey in London.
- [Mrs. Maloney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/mrs_maloney.md): Robert Audley's loyal housekeeper in London.
- [Miss Morley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_audley_s_secret_se/characters/miss_morley.md): A friend of Alicia Audley who visits Audley Court.

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