# Miss Prout — Revolving Lights character guide

> Miss Prout in Revolving Lights by Dorothy M. Richardson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Poor Miss Prout

**First appearance:** 0001-revolving-lights

## Snapshot

Poor Miss Prout hovers at the edge of the group's talk, one of the women whose fate the others discuss without quite looking at.

## Who they are

Miss Prout belongs to the small circle whose lives Miriam and Alma tally up in a single breath, alongside Miss Lane and Mildred Gaunt and Eunice Bradley, three of their own number 'all gone mad.' She is less a presence than a pressure: the name that keeps returning when the conversation turns to women sitting about in big houses on their father's money. She matters because she is the quiet evidence that the golden picture has a black shadow moving slowly down upon it.

## Relationships

### [Miriam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/revolving_lights_se/characters/miriam)

_professional_

Miriam works under Miss Prout, who is her employer and mentor at the school, with a dynamic of authority and reluctant respect.

### [Hypo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/revolving_lights_se/characters/hypo)

_professional_

Hypo and Miss Prout have a professional relationship, with Miss Prout viewing Hypo as a capable but unconventional figure.

### [Alma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/revolving_lights_se/characters/alma)

_professional_

Alma and Miss Prout have a professional relationship, with Alma often feeling constrained by Miss Prout's rigid expectations.

### [The Old Servant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/revolving_lights_se/characters/the_old_servant)

_professional_

Miss Prout employs the old servant, and their relationship is one of master-servant, with the servant being loyal but underappreciated.

### [Miriam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/revolving_lights_se/characters/miriam)

_professional_

Miriam works under Miss Prout, who is her employer and mentor at the school, with a dynamic of authority and reluctant respect.

### [The Old Servant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/revolving_lights_se/characters/the_old_servant)

_professional_

Miss Prout employs the old servant, and their relationship is one of master-servant, with the servant being loyal but underappreciated.

### [Hypo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/revolving_lights_se/characters/hypo)

_professional_

Hypo and Miss Prout have a professional relationship, with Miss Prout viewing Hypo as a capable but unconventional figure.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/revolving_lights_se/chapters/iii)

Sewing on the terrace, engages in conversation with Miriam, and reacts to Simpson's arrival.

## Links

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