Short Fiction · Character
Lady Emily
A broken heiress who traded a nunnery wall for a handsome Captain's arms, and now shuts herself in her room with only an old Irish servant for company.
supporting
Also known as Emily
First appearance: a chapter in the history of a tyrone family
As a supporting figure in Short Fiction, Lady Emily is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Miss Susan Baily, who shared the vigil and heard the music.
Lady Emily married beneath her for love, and the Captain repaid her by spending her income and frightening her out of her wits with oaths and threats. Latterly she has withdrawn almost entirely to her chamber, attended by the grim, religious Molly Doyle, whom her husband hates and threatens to pitch out the window. Her slow erasure from her own house — and the strange devotions that gather around her sickbed — set the haunting machinery in motion.
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Character Web
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Relationship types
- Romantic
- Other
Character groups
- Ghost story narrators
- Haunting family histories
- Protagonist
- Dark family secrets
- Carmilla story figures
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Story tension across the book.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Edward Dwyer
romantic · positive
Edward Dwyer and Lady Emily are lovers, with Dwyer pursuing her despite class differences. How this plays out →
- Edward Dwyer
romantic · positive
Edward Dwyer and Lady Emily are lovers, with Dwyer pursuing her despite class differences. How this plays out →
- Edward Dwyer
romantic · positive
Edward Dwyer and Lady Emily are lovers, with Dwyer pursuing her despite class differences. How this plays out →
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See Lady Emily in a chapter in the history of a tyrone familyIn the story
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See Lady Emily in a chapter in the history of a tyrone family