# Love Among the Chickens — Character guide

> Key figures in Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Jeremy Garnet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_among_the_chickens_se/characters/jeremy_garnet.md): Garnet is the dry, self-aware eye through which Ukridge's chicken farm becomes a comedy of escalating debt and dwindling dinners. He wants quiet and a finished manuscript, but finds himself hauling coops, chasing stray f
- [Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_among_the_chickens_se/characters/stanley_ukridge.md): Ukridge is the farm's managing director, chief optimist, and most unreliable authority on anything with feathers. He reasons that mixed breeds will lay regardless, that coops can be built from sugar boxes on tick, and th
- [Phyllis Derrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_among_the_chickens_se/characters/phyllis_derrick.md): Phyllis moves easily through Combe Regis society, reading under the cedar, playing a sharp game of croquet, and gently needling Garnet about his authorial surname. She is amused by the farm's chaos and drawn to the man n
- [Tom Chase](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_among_the_chickens_se/characters/tom_chase.md): Chase is the social hinge of Combe Regis, comfortable with the professor, the golf links, and the drawing-room alike. He is curious about the infamous chicken farm and treats its failures as excellent dinner-table materi
- [Mrs. Stanley Ukridge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_among_the_chickens_se/characters/mrs_ukridge.md): Mrs. Ukridge presides over the farmhouse with a childlike calm that survives arriving fowls, mounting bills, and her husband's grand pronouncements. She is the only person on the premises who can disagree with Ukridge, a
- [Harry Hawk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_among_the_chickens_se/characters/harry_hawk.md): Hawk is a village laborer caught between Garnet's schemes and the professor's sense of propriety, a man whose livelihood depends on the whims of his betters. He becomes the unwitting instrument of a prank that nearly cos
- [Professor Derrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_among_the_chickens_se/characters/professor_derrick.md): Professor Derrick moves through the novel as the visiting paterfamilias whose approval Garnet must somehow win, a man whose gloomy silences and volcanic irritability keep everyone around him tiptoeing. His fondness for t
- [Mrs. Beale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_among_the_chickens_se/characters/mrs_beale.md): Mrs. Beale presides over the chaotic kitchen of the chicken farm, the one practical presence in a household where nothing goes to plan. Her running battle with Edwin the cat, who will not come down while he thinks Bob is
- [Bob](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_among_the_chickens_se/characters/bob.md): A dog owned by Ukridge, often mentioned in the narrative.
- [Aunt Elizabeth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_among_the_chickens_se/characters/aunt_elizabeth.md): Ukridge's wealthy aunt, from whom he hopes to inherit money.
- [Jane Muspratt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_among_the_chickens_se/characters/jane_muspratt.md): A local woman who interacts with the characters.
- [Laddie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_among_the_chickens_se/characters/laddie.md): A dog belonging to the Derricks.
- [Beale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_among_the_chickens_se/characters/beale.md): Mrs. Beale's husband, a disreputable character.

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