# Pleasant Riderhood — Our Mutual Friend character guide

> Pleasant Riderhood in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Miss Pleasant Riderhood, Pleasant, poor Pleasant

**First appearance:** 0013-xiii-tracking-the-bird-of-prey

## Snapshot

Roger Riderhood's daughter, who keeps a tavern and nurses a wary romantic interest in the anatomist Venus.

## Who they are

Pleasant is the daughter of the river-thief Roger Riderhood, a young woman of the waterside whose tavern and whose father's reputation both weigh on her. She has a romantic interest in Mr. Venus, the articulator of bones, and her cautious hope for a better life is shadowed by her father's trade. Her position between respectability and the river's criminal world makes her a quiet measure of how the novel's characters are shaped by their origins.

## In the story

### [More Birds of Prey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/our_mutual_friend_se/chapters/xii-more-birds-of-prey)

Rogue's daughter, runs a small pawnbroking shop; mediates between her father and the visitor.

### [The Same Respected Friend in More Aspects Than One](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/our_mutual_friend_se/chapters/iii-the-same-respected-friend-in-more-aspects-than-one)

Called to her father's bedside; assists in his care and briefly hopes his ordeal might change him for the better.

### [The Friendly Move Takes Up a Strong Position](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/our_mutual_friend_se/chapters/vii-the-friendly-move-takes-up-a-strong-position)

Mentioned by Mr. Venus as the woman he was interested in; her father was mixed up in the affairs.

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