Mr. Mulliner Stories · Character
Lancelot Mulliner
A Mulliner nephew with romantic and adventurous leanings, forever entangled in family schemes and the long shadows of old nurses.
supporting
Also known as Lancelot
First appearance: portrait of a disciplinarian
As a supporting figure in Mr. Mulliner Stories, Lancelot Mulliner is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The protagonist, a young poet who falls in love at Cowes and refuses to join his uncle's pickle business.
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 treat grown men as knickerbocker-stage charges, and where past spankings linger as social embarrassments. His entanglements give the stories their youthful forward motion and their sense of inherited absurdity.
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