# Diana — Short Fiction character guide

> Diana in Short Fiction by Mary Shelley.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0000-a-tale-of-the-passions

## Who they are

A woman, possibly a huntress or goddess figure.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_38_se/chapters/i)

The narrator's mother, a beautiful and wise woman who marries the narrator's father and dies shortly after childbirth.

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_38_se/chapters/endnotes)

Her death's effect on her husband is elaborated in Mathilda.

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