# Fauntleroy — The Blithedale Romance character guide

> Fauntleroy in The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0023-xxii-fauntleroy

## Snapshot

A ruined gentleman who once moved in magnificence, now gray, misty, and morbidly sun-shunning, telling his pale daughter Priscilla fairy tales of the wealth and sister she has never seen.

## Who they are

Fauntleroy is the vanished grandee behind Old Moodie, a man whose every touch seems to dissolve — fortune, wives, and standing alike. Married twice into decline, he raises Priscilla in grimy poverty while feeding her worship of an unseen, brilliant sister from his first marriage. That strange, tender idolatry is the emotional engine Priscilla carries into Blithedale, and the reason her father's shadowed past keeps reaching into the community's present.

## Relationships

### [Zenobia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_blithedale_romance_se/characters/zenobia)

_family_

Fauntleroy is the earlier identity of Old Moodie, Zenobia's father, whose past disgrace and abandonment shape her tragic fate.

## In the story

### [Fauntleroy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_blithedale_romance_se/chapters/xxii-fauntleroy)

The former identity of Old Moodie, a wealthy man whose superficial life ended in crime and ruin.

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