# Sylvia Tietjens — No More Parades character guide

> Sylvia Tietjens in No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Sylvia, Mrs. Christopher Tietjens

**First appearance:** 0001-no-more-parades

## Who they are

Christopher's beautiful, faithless wife, whose vindictive passions and sudden returns from a Birkenhead convent keep his marriage a wound that will not close.

## Relationships

### [Christopher Tietjens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/christopher_tietjens)

_family_

Sylvia is Christopher's estranged wife, and their marriage is a battleground of cruelty, manipulation, and bitter resentment.

### [Christopher Tietjens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/christopher_tietjens)

_family_

Sylvia is Christopher's estranged wife, and their marriage is a battleground of cruelty, manipulation, and bitter resentment.

## In the story

### [To William Bird](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/chapters/to-william-bird)

Mentioned as holding the view that the World War was an excuse for male apagemones, a political opinion the author does not back.

### [No More Parades Part I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/chapters/no-more-parades)

Mentioned in context of her arrival at the hotel and confrontation with Tietjens, highlighting marital conflict.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/chapters/part-i-i)

Tietjens' estranged wife, remembered for her extraordinary beauty and cruelty, and the scandal surrounding her.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/chapters/part-i-ii)

Sylvia is a looming presence in Tietjens' thoughts; he fears she is actively working to ruin his career and reputation, imagining her 'playing the very devil' with high-ranking officers.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/chapters/part-i-iii)

Arrives in France without permission, causing a stir; she had earlier forced Tietjens into proposing to Miss Wannop and now complains about sheets and Miss Wannop to General Campion.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/chapters/part-ii-i)

Sylvia sits in the hotel lounge, reflecting on her affair with Perowne and her marriage to Christopher. She is determined to provoke a reaction from her husband.

### [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/chapters/part-ii-ii)

Arrives at the hotel, observes the general and Tietjens, reflects on war and her marriage, recalls her visit to Mark.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/chapters/part-iii-i)

Mentioned as being with Major Perowne in France, and as the subject of General O'Hara's drunken intrusion.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/chapters/part-iii-ii)

Mentioned as Tietjens' wife; Tietjens fears she will inform Valentine Wannop of his dangerous posting.

## Links

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