# Everard Vaterlein — Lolly Willowes character guide

> Everard Vaterlein in Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Everard

**First appearance:** 0002-iii

## Snapshot

A mysterious figure in the Great Mop countryside whose presence hints at the older, stranger allegiances beneath the village's quiet surface.

## Who they are

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 of presence that makes Laura's new home feel less like an escape and more like an initiation—proof that Great Mop is not merely a pretty place but a place with allegiances. His role is to deepen the mystery around Laura's bargain and to show that the countryside she loves has always had its own untamed logic.

## Relationships

### [Laura Willowes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/laura_willowes)

_psychological_

Everard is a mysterious and unsettling man who is later revealed to be Satan, testing Laura's allegiance.

### [James](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/james)

_psychological_

Everard manipulates James, a young man in the village, as part of his broader influence over the community.

### [Laura Willowes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lolly_willowes_se/characters/laura_willowes)

_psychological_

Everard is a mysterious and unsettling man who is later revealed to be Satan, testing Laura's allegiance.

## In the story

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

Laura's father, who never uses nicknames and is her close companion, influencing her disinterest in marriage.

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