# Una — Short Fiction character guide

> Una in Short Fiction by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** VI Voices Now Una

**First appearance:** 0029-vi-voices

## Snapshot

A young woman whose beauty draws an obsessive, unearthly devotion, and whose fate hangs over the tale like a held breath.

## Who they are

Una moves through a world of suitors, inheritances, and rural gentility, the kind of figure whose hand is discussed as a financial transaction before she ever speaks. Around her gather men who calculate her worth and one whose passion for her is neither reasonable nor entirely human. Her presence turns ordinary courtship into something fatal, and the story's early calm curdles around her.

## Relationships

### [Ally Moran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/characters/ally_moran)

_romantic_

Ally Moran and Una share a deeply intertwined romantic relationship, marked by frequent interactions and emotional intensity.

### [Ally Moran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/characters/ally_moran)

_romantic_

Ally Moran and Una share a deeply intertwined romantic relationship, marked by frequent interactions and emotional intensity.

### [Ally Moran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/characters/ally_moran)

_romantic_

Ally Moran and Una share a deeply intertwined romantic relationship, marked by frequent interactions and emotional intensity.

## In the story

### [I: The Jacobite’s Legacy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/i-the-jacobite-s-legacy)

Younger daughter of Ultor de Lacy, described with large blue eyes and long golden hair.

### [II: The Fairies in the Castle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/ii-the-fairies-in-the-castle)

Younger daughter, playful and beautiful, pretends to be a fairy queen and frightens the captured boy before releasing him.

### [V: The Man with the Claret Mark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/v-the-man-with-the-claret-mark)

Younger daughter; her marriage to a French gentleman is arranged by her father, but she is kept unaware of the engagement.

### [VI: Voices](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/vi-voices)

Grows pale, loses spirit, becomes secretive and insists on sleeping apart from Alice; sings at night to a mysterious male voice.

### [VII: Una’s Love](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/vii-una-s-love)

Una is the central figure of the chapter, displaying supernatural possession or enchantment. She disappears after a night of eerie behavior, leaving only a token and chalked names.

### [The Banshee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/the-banshee)

Miss Baily, who relates her experience with the banshee's music.

### [Carmilla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/carmilla)

The narrator and protagonist who becomes the object of Carmilla's intense and eerie affection.

### [IV: Her Habits—A Saunter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/iv-her-habits-a-saunter)

The narrator who is both drawn to and repelled by Carmilla's behavior; observes Carmilla's reactions and discusses the local illnesses.

### [XIII: The Woodman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/xiii-the-woodman)

The narrator, who experiences symptoms mirroring those of the General's deceased ward.

## Links

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