# News from Nowhere — Character guide

> Key figures in News from Nowhere by William Morris.

- [Guest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/narrator_guest.md): He arrives in a transformed London where no one quite knows what to make of him, and his foreignness becomes the engine of the book's inquiry. Ellen draws him out, sensing he can explain what her neighbors cannot, and he
- [Dick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/dick.md): Dick is the narrator's first friend in the new world, rowing him up the Thames and introducing him to kinsmen and neighbors with unguarded warmth. His reunion with Clara reveals a tender, flustered side beneath the cheer
- [Ellen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/ellen.md): Ellen stands slightly apart from the easy contentment around her, pressing the narrator to make history clear because she fears what forgetting it might cost. Her beauty and earnestness unsettle him, and their conversati
- [Clara](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/clara.md): Clara is affectionate and practical, the kind of woman who diagnoses a friend's romantic despair as mere hunger for love rather than tragedy. Her reunion with Dick is wordless and flushed, and her shy glances at Ellen su
- [Old Hammond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/old_hammond.md): Hammond is the book's resident historian, a man whose love of talk has outgrown his audience of restless youngsters. He grumbles at the young and takes comfort in old novels, yet his memory holds the whole arc from capit
- [Richard Hammond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/richard_hammond.md): A relative of Old Hammond, mentioned as a figure from the past.
- [Friend Walter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/friend_walter.md): A friend of the narrator from the old world, briefly referenced.
- [Walter Allen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/walter_allen.md): A character mentioned in the narrator's past discussions.
- [Annie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/annie.md): A young woman encountered during the river journey, part of the festive community.
- [Bob](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/bob.md): A friend of Dick's, part of the riverside community.
- [Robert the Weaver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/robert_the_weaver.md): A weaver who speaks about the old days during the journey.
- [Greylocks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/greylocks.md): An elderly man encountered on the river, critical of the past.
- [Boffin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/boffin.md): A character from the narrator's past life, mentioned briefly.
- [Mistress Philippa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/mistress_philippa.md): A woman from the narrator's past, referenced in conversation.
- [Henry Morsom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/news_from_nowhere_se/characters/henry_morsom.md): A historical figure mentioned in Old Hammond's narrative.

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