# Mr. Mulliner Stories — Character guide

> Key figures in Mr. Mulliner Stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [James Rodman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/james_rodman.md): James Rodman moves through Wodehouse's world of romantic mix-ups and social embarrassments, forever dodging the long arm of old family authority. His particular dread is the nurse who once disciplined him and still treat
- [William Mulliner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/william_mulliner.md): William Mulliner belongs to the sprawling clan whose misadventures Mr. Mulliner recounts with relish, and he carries the family's knack for dignified disaster. Caught between social obligation and personal preference, he
- [Augustine Mulliner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/augustine_mulliner.md): Augustine Mulliner boards quietly in a country village, keeping a diary in which he frets about whether he is sufficiently meek. A dose of his Uncle Wilfred's Buck-U-Uppo flips him into a blustering bully who berates his
- [George Mulliner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/george_mulliner.md): George Mulliner sets out on a train journey resolved to practise the art of conversation, only to be derailed by a fierce fellow traveller with a stutter and a platform encounter with a man in pyjamas and a top hat. His 
- [Frederick Mulliner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/frederick_mulliner.md): Frederick Mulliner is dragged from London by his brother George, a doctor, to pay a duty call on Wilks, the family nurse whose heart is weak and whose authority is undiminished. He resents every mile of the journey and e
- [Clarence Mulliner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/clarence_mulliner.md): Clarence Mulliner inhabits the same comic territory as his relatives, where a quiet morning can turn into a running bishop and a breakfast egg can become a moral crisis. He is the sort of young man whose diary entries sw
- [Wilfred Mulliner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/wilfred_mulliner.md): Wilfred is the family chemist whose concoctions act forcefully upon the red corpuscles, as his nephew Augustine discovers when a dose turns him from meek diarist into a browbeating terror over hot-water bottles and crema
- [Lancelot Mulliner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/lancelot_mulliner.md): Lancelot belongs to the younger Mulliner generation, the sort of man whose romantic and adventurous inclinations land him in scrapes his elders recount with relish. He moves through a world where old family nurses still 
- [Mr. Mulliner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/mr_mulliner.md): Mr. Mulliner presides over the Angler's Rest, a pint at his elbow, ready to answer any conversational opening with a tale about a relative. He winces at old wounds — a nurse's hairbrush, a nephew's gloom — yet cannot res
- [Jane Oliphant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/jane_oliphant.md): Jane was the Oliphants' charge under Nurse Wilks, the pretty child for whom a twelve-year-old Frederick risked his neck after a rook's egg. Grown up a beauty, she broke her engagement to Frederick by letter from the Pond
- [Andrew McKinnon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/andrew_mckinnon.md): A Scottish character involved in a Mulliner plot.
- [Sir Jasper ffinch-ffarrowmere](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/sir_jasper_ffinch_ffarrowmere.md): An eccentric baronet with a long hyphenated name.
- [Angela Purdue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/angela_purdue.md): A young woman courted by a Mulliner.
- [Wilks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/wilks.md): A nurse or domestic servant in a Mulliner household.
- [Colonel Carteret](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/colonel_carteret.md): A military man who appears in a Mulliner story.
- [Leila Pinckney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/leila_pinckney.md): A woman with a romantic subplot involving a Mulliner.
- [Myrtle Banks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/myrtle_banks.md): A young woman in a romantic entanglement.
- [Desmond Franklyn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/desmond_franklyn.md): A rival or antagonist in a Mulliner story.
- [Susan Blake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/susan_blake.md): A young woman involved in a romantic plot.
- [Rose Maynard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/rose_maynard.md): A love interest or relative in a Mulliner tale.
- [Mrs. Wardle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/mrs_wardle.md): A matronly figure in a Mulliner story.
- [Lady Monica Southbourne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/lady_monica_southbourne.md): An aristocratic woman in a Mulliner plot.
- [Bish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_mulliner_stories_se/characters/bish.md): A minor character, possibly a nickname.

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