# Miss Mole — Character guide

> Key figures in Miss Mole by E. H. Young.

- [Miss Hannah Mole](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/miss_hannah_mole.md): Hannah Mole arrives at the Corders' as a paid outsider who quickly becomes the quiet center of the house, reading everyone while guarding a ten-year-old happiness she cannot afford to have exposed. She is funny, watchful
- [Ruth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/ruth.md): Ruth is the youngest Corder, a self-described egotist whose curiosity about Miss Mole is mostly a love of hearing stories, yet whose loneliness makes her unexpectedly receptive to Hannah's confession that middle-aged peo
- [Robert Corder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/robert_corder.md): Robert Corder rules his family with the bland confidence of a man who has never doubted his own rightness, noticing the household only when it intrudes on his study or his schedule. He is irritated by Miss Mole's quick, 
- [Ethel Corder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/ethel_corder.md): Ethel is a good girl with fits of passion, grateful for Miss Mole's competence yet wounded by Wilfrid's habit of watching the housekeeper instead of her. She pities and envies Hannah by turns, believing forty means desir
- [Mr. Blenkinsop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/mr_blenkinsop.md): Mr. Blenkinsop is the neighbor whose warm, open-doored room Hannah peeps into with acid humor, envying a comfort she pretends to scorn. He is a man with, apparently, no past he need fear, and his placid evenings throw Ha
- [Lilla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/lilla.md): Lilla is the practical relative who placed Hannah with the Corders and now resents her cousin's unsolicited hints about how to behave, greeting Hannah's loud affection with a look for a retreat. She represents the family
- [Wilfrid](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/wilfrid.md): Wilfrid moves through the Corders' circle as a visitor whose nonsense carries enough truth to sting or soothe, and he fixes his notice on Miss Mole rather than on Ethel, who cannot hide her hurt. His divided attention sh
- [Mr. Pilgrim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/mr_pilgrim.md): Mr. Pilgrim is expected at the Corders' for an evening that Ethel dreads and Wilfrid mocks, with everyone calculating whether he will stammer and who will carry the conversation. His visit gives Miss Mole the excuse to d
- [Mrs. Spenser-Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/mrs_spenser_smith.md): Mrs. Spenser-Smith belongs to the small society whose opinions the Corders weigh, and her verdict that everything was nice at supper becomes ammunition in the family's arguments about guests and housekeeping. She never a
- [Mrs. Gibson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/mrs_gibson.md): A local woman who interacts with the Corder household.
- [Uncle Jim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/uncle_jim.md): A plain, tax-collector-like relative of the Corders.
- [Doris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/doris.md): A servant or young woman in the household.
- [Mr. Samson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/mr_samson.md): An older man known in the community.
- [Howard Corder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/howard_corder.md): A member of the Corder family.
- [Mrs. Corder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/mrs_corder.md): The deceased wife of Robert Corder, mentioned in memory.
- [Father](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/father.md): A paternal figure referenced in the narrative.
- [Mrs. Widdows](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/characters/mrs_widdows.md): A woman mentioned in the community.

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