# Lolly Willowes — Character guide

> Key figures in Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner.

- [Laura Willowes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/laura_willowes.md): When her father dies, Laura is absorbed into her brother Henry's household as Aunt Lolly—useful, unmarried, faintly pitied, her future reduced to a small spare-room and the hope of a husband before thirty. She is a woman
- [Titus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/titus.md): Titus quits Bloomsbury for the Chilterns as casually as a cat jumps from a hard chair to a soft one, and settles into Great Mop with purring satisfaction. His love of the landscape is comfortable, portable, and masculine
- [Henry Willowes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/henry_willowes.md): Henry is the Willowes who inherited the name, the house, and the settled expectations that go with them; when his father dies, he and Caroline take Laura in as a matter of course, and he is right that Lolly ought to come
- [Satan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/satan.md): In Great Mop, Satan appears less as a cloven-hoofed tempter than as a courteous, undemanding presence—someone who takes Laura seriously and asks nothing of her in return. He is the counterweight to everything the Willowe
- [Mrs. Leak](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/mrs_leak.md): Mrs. Leak belongs to the ordinary texture of Great Mop—the village that Laura trusted before she ever saw it, staking everything on a name and a few lines on a map. Through her, Laura gains a foothold in local life that 
- [Everard Vaterlein](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/everard_vaterlein.md): Everard moves through the Chilterns as someone who belongs to its hidden life rather than its polite one, and his association with the Devil's circle marks him as a keeper of the village's darker secrets. He is the kind 
- [James](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/james.md): A local man in the village, possibly a servant or farmer.
- [Mr. Saunter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/mr_saunter.md): A gentleman in the village, part of the local social circle.
- [Sibyl Mauleverer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/sibyl_mauleverer.md): A friend or acquaintance of Laura's in the countryside.
- [Mr. Gurdon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/mr_gurdon.md): A local man, possibly a farmer or tradesman.
- [Emma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/emma.md): Laura's aunt or relative, part of the family circle.
- [Pandora Williams](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/pandora_williams.md): A woman in the village, possibly a friend of Laura's.
- [Mrs. Willowes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/mrs_willowes.md): Laura's mother or a relative, mentioned in family context.
- [Fancy Willowes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/fancy_willowes.md): A relative of Laura's, possibly a cousin or niece.
- [Mr. Arbuthnot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/mr_arbuthnot.md): A gentleman in the village, part of the local social scene.
- [Mr. Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/mr_jones.md): A local man, possibly a tradesman or neighbor.
- [Billy Thomas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/billy_thomas.md): A young man from the village who becomes a footman.
- [Miss Minnie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/miss_minnie.md): A woman in the village, possibly a spinster or widow.
- [Miss Jane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/miss_jane.md): A woman in the village, possibly a friend or relative.

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