# The Black Moth — Character guide

> Key figures in The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer.

- [Lady Lavinia Carstares](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/lady_lavinia_carstares.md): Lady Lavinia commands Grosvenor Square society with jewelled heels and a train of admirers, receiving Captain Lovelace and Sir Gregory even as her husband Richard waits in mounting irritation. Her old flame Lovelace pres
- [Diana Beauleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/diana_beauleigh.md): Diana moves through her father's garden and household with a self-possession that puzzles and charms those who try to read her. Molly O'Hara, sensing a hidden love, draws her out and learns that Jack will not speak for r
- [Miles O'Hara](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/miles_ohara.md): Sir Miles O'Hara trades teasing banter with his wife Molly while quietly guarding Jack Carstares' hidden identity and refusing to break a promise. He understands Jack's refusal to court Diana before clearing his name, ev
- [Jack Carstares](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/jack_carstares.md): Jack Carstares, living as Mr. Carr after a duel and disgrace, is drawn into the Beauleigh household by his rescue of Diana and finds himself falling for her despite every reason to keep away. He knows Tracy is behind his
- [Tracy Belmanoir](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/tracy_belmanoir.md): Hugh Tracy Clare Belmanoir writes mocking letters to the men he has bested and keeps his sister Lavinia under a subtle, chilling surveillance. His cold green eyes and sneering courtesy mark him as the architect of Jack C
- [Jack Dare](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/jack_dare.md): Colonel Dare moves through the clubs and routs of London with a soldier's bluntness, quick to spot Lovelace as a dangerous new element in Lady Lavinia's circle. His observations and willingness to act give the early chap
- [Elizabeth Beauleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/elizabeth_beauleigh.md): A sharp-eyed spinster aunt who knits, prophesies, and loves her niece Diana fiercely, seeing both the sunshine and the tragic mouth others miss.
- [Jim Salter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/jim_salter.md): A servant with a wooden face and a doglike devotion, who would follow his disgraced master across continents rather than stay behind with the girl he loves.
- [Captain Harold Lovelace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/harold_lovelace.md): A polished, persistent captain whose amber-clouded cane and sprawling initials mark him as the too-frequent visitor in another man's wife's boudoir.
- [Lord Andrew Belmanoir](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/andrew_belmanoir.md): Lord Andrew moves through the novel's crises with a cheerful disregard for whose side he is on, crashing through a locked door to interrupt a duel one moment and fetching water for the wounded the next. His connection to
- [Mr. Warburton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/mr_warburton.md): Mr. Warburton manages the tangled legal affairs of the Carstares family with a mixture of professional precision and barely suppressed anguish. He alone has pieced together the truth of his master's innocence, and the kn
- [Lord John Carstares](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/lord_john_carstares.md): Lord John Carstares robs coaches as 'Sir Anthony Ferndale' with theatrical flair, polishing his nails and adjusting his diamond pin while plotting his next move. Exiled and disgraced, he wears his outlaw identity like a 
- [Frank Fortescue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/frank_fortescue.md): Sir John Fortescue moves through the fashionable world of routs and gilded chairs with the ease of a man some years senior to Richard Carstares yet counted among his closest friends. His presence at Lavinia's toilette an
- [Richard Carstares](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/richard_carstares.md): Richard Carstares moves through London's fashionable world as a man of rank and duty, husband to the dazzling Lady Lavinia and brother to the absent Jack. His marriage is a battlefield of flirtation and jealousy, and his
- [Dick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/dick.md): Dick Edgecumbe belongs to the trusted circle around the Carstares family, a man whose honesty earns him the affectionate epithet 'Honest Dick.' Where the beau monde trades in flirtation and polish, he offers something st
- [Lady O'Hara](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/lady_ohara.md): Lady O'Hara, wife to the easygoing Sir Miles, moves through the novel with the confidence of a woman who has learned exactly how to handle her husband and everyone else. Teasing Miles about caterpillars and snoring one m
- [Mr. Beauleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/mr_beauleigh.md): Mr. Beauleigh is a gentleman of modest means, father to Diana and Elizabeth, whose quiet country life is interrupted by visitors far above his station. His name surfaces in the schemes of the powerful, who see his househ
- [Mr. Fudby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/mr_fudby.md): A pompous and comic minor character, often the butt of jokes.
- [Selwyn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/selwyn.md): A minor gentleman, possibly a friend or acquaintance of the main characters.
- [Isabella Fanshawe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/isabella_fanshawe.md): Isabella Fanshawe, known to friends as Bel, keeps a tastefully appointed house in Mount Street and a reputation as an excellent hostess. When Richard Carstares comes calling to ask about the elusive Ferndale, she receive
- [Duke of Andover](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/duke_of_andover.md): Tracy, Duke of Andover, moves through Grosvenor Square with the ease of a man who expects obedience and rarely has to ask for it. His sister Lavinia fears him more than she fears her own husband, sensing that his pleasan
- [Mr. Chilter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/mr_chilter.md): A shy and awkward young man, a suitor to one of the ladies.
- [Mrs. Fanshawe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/mrs_fanshawe.md): The mother of Isabella, a scheming and social-climbing woman.
- [Mr. Chadber](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/mr_chadber.md): An honest and straightforward minor character, often providing practical help.
- [Tom Wilding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/tom_wilding.md): A robust and jovial man, a friend or associate of the main characters.
- [Harper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/harper.md): A servant or innkeeper, often surprised by the events unfolding.
- [Colonel Lord Robert Belmanoir](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/colonel_robert_belmanoir.md): A military man and member of the Belmanoir family, involved in the main conflict.
- [Mrs. Fleming](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/mrs_fleming.md): A minor female character, possibly a housekeeper or neighbor.
- [John Anthony St. Ervine Delaney Carstares](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/john_anthony_carstares.md): A minor member of the Carstares family, possibly a child or relative.

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