# Miss Beaumont — Short Fiction character guide

> Miss Beaumont in Short Fiction by E. M. Forster.

**Role:** major

**First appearance:** 0001-i

## Who they are

A guileless young woman engaged to a wealthy landowner, whose simple delight in counting trees masks a quiet resistance to being managed.

## In the story

### [Other Kingdom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_13_se/chapters/other-kingdom)

Proclaims the existence of an 'other kingdom,' embodying a transcendent and imaginative perspective that defies societal norms.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_13_se/chapters/i)

Earnest student of Latin, engaged to Mr. Worters, and recipient of Other Kingdom Copse as a gift.

### [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_13_se/chapters/ii)

The hostess of the picnic, joyful and childlike, she delights in her wood and puns, and shows a preference for Ford's standing posture.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_13_se/chapters/iii)

Initially frivolous, she pleads with Harcourt to forgive Ford, fails, and falls into a stream; realizes her powerlessness.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_13_se/chapters/iv)

Dances ecstatically, disappears into the copse, and later appears subdued but revives during a walk.

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