# Pimpernel and Rosemary — Character guide

> Key figures in Pimpernel and Rosemary by Baroness Orczy.

- [Rosemary Fowkes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/rosemary_fowkes.md): Rosemary moves through Transylvanian drawing rooms as the admired wife of Jasper Tarkington, yet Peter Blakeney's sudden arrival at Kis-Imre strips away her practiced calm. She is caught between loyalty to a husband whos
- [Peter Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/peter_blakeney.md): Peter reappears at Kis-Imre after years abroad, slipping into the garden to find Rosemary among the tiger lilies and instantly reading the strain she tries to hide. His lighthearted manner—hands in his flannel pockets, t
- [Elza Imrey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/elza_imrey.md): Elza walks through the village with head held erect after devastating news, saving her collapse for the privacy of her own hall. Her first thought is how to break the news to her husband Maurus, and she refuses Rosemary'
- [General Naniescu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/general_naniescu.md): Naniescu wields power through soft-spoken arrangements, summoning Peter Blakeney by telephone and steering Jasper into the dining-room to keep him from overhearing. He offers Rosemary an abominable 'either-or' that trade
- [Jasper Tarkington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/jasper_tarkington.md): Jasper marries Rosemary knowing she does not love him, and his magnanimity—cushions, footstools, tears kissed away on a train to Budapest—only deepens her guilt. He is kind, sensible, and clear-thinking, yet his coolness
- [Anna Heves](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/anna_heves.md): Anna is the child Rosemary remembers, now living alone at Kolozsvár for reasons Peter cannot fathom, and he asks Rosemary to look her up and give her a kiss from him. Her sweetness and enthusiasm make her easy to love an
- [Maurus Imrey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/maurus_imrey.md): Count Imrey is the fiery patriarch of the Imrey household, a man whose dark eyes and ungoverned passions make him both commanding and dangerously impulsive. When Romanian soldiers descend on his home, he charges them lik
- [Philip Imrey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/philip_imrey.md): Philip Imrey is the impetuous heir whose foolish entanglement in anti-government plots has made his name a byword for trouble among those who love him. His cousin Anna shares his dangerous secrets, and Rosemary Tarkingto
- [M. de Kervoisin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/m_de_kervoisin.md): A French diplomat or gentleman involved in social circles.
- [Number Ten](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/number_ten.md): A mysterious figure referred to by a code number.
- [Alice Gerbier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/alice_gerbier.md): An elderly woman with a tragic past.
- [Lady Orange](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/lady_orange.md): A titled woman of some social standing.
- [Anton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/anton.md): A servant or local man with a minor role.
- [Rosa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/rosa.md): A woman with a brief but notable appearance.
- [Miss Fairfax](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/miss_fairfax.md): A young woman of some social prominence.
- [Sir George Orange](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/sir_george_orange.md): A knighted gentleman with a minor role.
- [Captain Payson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pimpernel_and_rosemary_se/characters/captain_payson.md): A captain involved in military or travel scenes.

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