# The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford — Character guide

> Key figures in The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford by Mark Rutherford.

- [Mark Rutherford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_mark_rutherford_se/characters/mark_rutherford.md): A dissenting minister whose hunger for books beyond his reach turns faith into loneliness and the pulpit into a slow unraveling.
- [Theresa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_mark_rutherford_se/characters/theresa.md): A woman who enters Rutherford's guarded inner life and tests whether the heart can be educated out of its solitude.
- [Mr. Snale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_mark_rutherford_se/characters/mr_snale.md): A chapel deacon whose plain, practical religion quietly measures—and judges—the distance between Rutherford's sermons and his doubts.
- [Mary Bell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_mark_rutherford_se/characters/mary_bell.md): A young woman in Rutherford's circle whose ordinary warmth and loyalties expose how far his reading has carried him from daily life.
- [Miss Arbour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_mark_rutherford_se/characters/miss_arbour.md): A thoughtful, generous woman whose friendship offers Rutherford the rare relief of being understood without being preached at.
- [Ellen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_mark_rutherford_se/characters/ellen.md): A woman whose presence pulls at Rutherford's affections and forces him to weigh the claims of love against the habits of a solitary mind.
- [Miss Mardon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_mark_rutherford_se/characters/miss_mardon.md): A member of the Mardon family, involved in Rutherford's social world.
- [Mr. Hexton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_mark_rutherford_se/characters/mr_hexton.md): A minister or authority figure who interacts with Rutherford.
- [Edward Gibbon Mardon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_mark_rutherford_se/characters/edward_gibbon_mardon.md): A friend or acquaintance of Rutherford, possibly a fellow dissenter.
- [Mr. Weeley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_mark_rutherford_se/characters/mr_weeley.md): A church or community figure who appears in the narrative.
- [Brother Holderness](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_mark_rutherford_se/characters/brother_holderness.md): A fellow dissenter or church member known to Rutherford.
- [Mr. Catfield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_mark_rutherford_se/characters/mr_catfield.md): A minor character in Rutherford's acquaintance.

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