# Miss Knag — Nicholas Nickleby character guide

> Miss Knag in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the kindhearted Miss Knag, Knag, the worthy Miss Knag

**First appearance:** 0010-viii

## Who they are

A dressmaker at Madame Mantalini's who is jealous of Kate.

## In the story

### [Follows the fortunes of Miss Nickleby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicholas_nickleby_se/chapters/xvii)

The overdressed, loquacious forewoman who fawns over Madame Mantalini and tries to extract information from Kate.

### [Miss Knag, after doting on Kate Nickleby for three whole days, makes up her mind to hate her forevermore. The causes which led Miss Knag to form this resolution.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicholas_nickleby_se/chapters/xviii)

The forewoman who initially pretends to adore Kate but secretly resents her; she schemes to keep Kate in the background and later turns against her.

### [Descriptive of a Dinner at Mr. Ralph Nickleby's, and of the manner in which the company entertained themselves, before dinner, at dinner, and after dinner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicholas_nickleby_se/chapters/xix)

Mentioned as harboring bile and rancor toward Kate during the week at Madame Mantalini's.

### [Madam Mantalini finds herself in a situation of some difficulty, and Miss Nickleby finds herself in no situation at all.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicholas_nickleby_se/chapters/xxi)

Continues her ill-will toward Kate, making snide remarks and ostracizing her upon her return.

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