# Little Molly Donovan — Short Fiction character guide

> Little Molly Donovan in Short Fiction by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Molly Donovan, Molly

**First appearance:** 0068-the-child-that-went-with-the-fairies

## Snapshot

A young girl whose disappearance into the fairy world leaves her family and neighbours grappling with a loss that feels both natural and uncanny.

## Who they are

Little Molly Donovan is the kind of child whose absence would ordinarily be a simple tragedy, but the circumstances of her vanishing point toward older, stranger explanations. Her story draws on the Irish folklore of fairy abduction, where the boundary between this world and the next is thin and perilous. She matters because her fate forces the community to confront what they half-believe and cannot quite name.

## In the story

### [Billy Malowney's Taste of Love and Glory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/billy-malowney-s-taste-of-love-and-glory)

The modest and pretty girl Billy falls in love with and marries; she remains faithful and proud of him during his military service.

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