# Mrs. Spenser-Smith — Miss Mole character guide

> Mrs. Spenser-Smith in Miss Mole by E. H. Young.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Spenser-Smith, the Spenser-Smith

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

A neighbor whose supper-table praise sets the Corders' social standard, she is invoked as the measure of whether an evening has succeeded.

## Who they are

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 appears directly in the scene, yet her approval shapes how Ethel, Wilfrid, and Hannah maneuver around Mr. Pilgrim's visit and Miss Mole's place at the table. Her presence as a standard of taste makes the household's anxieties about class, hospitality, and being watched feel immediate and comic.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/chapters/ii)

Lilla is surprised and somewhat dismayed to meet Hannah; she offers pragmatic advice and reveals details about her household and the Literary Society Meeting.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/chapters/xi)

Mentioned as a benefactor who gave a photograph of Corder's wife and recommended Hannah.

### [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/chapters/xxii)

Referenced as the one who chose Miss Mole as housekeeper, and whose judgment Robert Corder hesitates to criticize.

### [XXXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/miss_mole_se/chapters/xxxiv)

Participates in the chapel gossip that leads to Ethel's trouble.

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