# Valentine Wannop — No More Parades character guide

> Valentine Wannop in No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Miss Wannop, Wannop, Valentine

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

## Who they are

A young suffragist and intellectual whose connection to Tietjens runs deeper than propriety allows, and whose fate he cannot stop weighing.

## Relationships

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

_romantic_

Valentine is Tietjens' true love, a suffragist and intellectual companion, though their relationship is complicated by war and social constraints.

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

_romantic_

Valentine is Tietjens' true love, a suffragist and intellectual companion, though their relationship is complicated by war and social constraints.

## In the story

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

Tietjens briefly and fancifully imagines that the visitor in the car might be Miss Wannop, which brings him a moment of calm, sentimental happiness.

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

The object of Tietjens' passion, though he has never expressed it; Sylvia's machinations led to Tietjens' proposal to her.

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

Tietjens imagines her despair if he rejects the transfer she begged Mark to arrange.

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

Tietjens imagines her anxiety about his safety and considers sending her a wire to reassure her.

## Links

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