The Bellamy Trial · Character

Mimi Bellamy

The murdered woman at the heart of the case, Mimi Bellamy haunts every session of the trial through the testimony of those who knew her.

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Also known as Polly, Mimi, Mimi Dawson Bellamy, Mimi Dawson

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Victim; described as an amazingly beautiful creature, the wife of Stephen Bellamy.

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Though dead before the novel opens, Mimi Dawson Bellamy dominates the courtroom through the recollections of her schoolmate Flora Biggs, her ex-fiancé Elliot Farwell, and the servants who watched her marriage unravel. Her charm, her restlessness, and her tangled romantic history supply the prosecution with motive and the defense with reasonable doubt. She is the absence that every witness circles, and the reader must piece her together from fragments of testimony.

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Trial principals and family
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

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Breaking point

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Mrs. Patrick Ives
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Mrs. Patrick Ives
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Mrs. Patrick Ives
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Victim; described as an amazingly beautiful creature, the wife of Stephen Bellamy.
III
Mentioned in Farwell's testimony as having an affair with Patrick Ives and being at the club.
V
Described as a beautiful, dream-like woman with silver slippers and sapphire-and-diamond rings, and as someone who broke men's hearts.
Chapter VI
Described by Ives as attempting blackmail and never loving anyone but Steve.
VII
The murder victim; her death is the central event of the trial.
Chapter VIII: The Confession of Margaret Ives
Mimi is the victim; Margaret describes their confrontation at the cottage, where Mimi mocked her and refused to leave Patrick alone.

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