# Mimi Bellamy — The Bellamy Trial character guide

> Mimi Bellamy in The Bellamy Trial by Frances Noyes Hart.

**Role:** supporting

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

**First appearance:** 0001-the-bellamy-trial

## Snapshot

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.

## Who they are

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.

## Relationships

### [Mrs. Patrick Ives](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/characters/mrs_patrick_ives)

_family_

Mimi Bellamy is the daughter of Mrs. Ives, caught in the web of her mother's controlling nature.

### [Mrs. Patrick Ives](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/characters/mrs_patrick_ives)

_family_

Mimi Bellamy is the daughter of Mrs. Ives, caught in the web of her mother's controlling nature.

### [Mrs. Patrick Ives](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/characters/mrs_patrick_ives)

_family_

Mimi Bellamy is the daughter of Mrs. Ives, caught in the web of her mother's controlling nature.

## In the story

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

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

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/chapters/iii)

Mentioned in Farwell's testimony as having an affair with Patrick Ives and being at the club.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/chapters/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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/chapters/vi)

Described by Ives as attempting blackmail and never loving anyone but Steve.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/chapters/vii)

The murder victim; her death is the central event of the trial.

### [Chapter VIII: The Confession of Margaret Ives](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/chapters/viii)

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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