# Elinor — Short Fiction character guide

> Elinor in Short Fiction by Mary Shelley.

**Role:** minor

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

## Who they are

A woman of sensibility in a romantic story.

## In the story

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_38_se/chapters/ix)

Woodville's beloved, a young heiress of exquisite beauty; dies of fever despite Woodville's desperate attempts to revive her.

### [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_38_se/chapters/x)

Elinor is Woodville's deceased bride, whose memory and death are central to his grief and the narrator's reflections.

### [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_38_se/chapters/xi)

Mentioned as a lost love of Woodville, whose death contributes to his grief and the narrator's despair.

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