# Lucinda — The Conscious Lovers character guide

> Lucinda in The Conscious Lovers by Richard Steele.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mrs. Lucinda

**First appearance:** 0006-act-i

## Snapshot

A merchant's daughter with a sharp tongue and a clear head, expected to marry wherever her parents point and to feel nothing about it.

## Who they are

Lucinda has already ended Bevil's pretensions by letter, given her affections to Myrtle, and now watches her mother parade Cimberton through the house as if the wedding were done. She mocks the doctrine that a maid should not even look at her husband until the minister hands her over, and trades barbs with her maid Phillis about love, obedience, and what servants seal with their lips. Her wit and her resistance to being traded like stock make her the play's sharpest comment on marriage as a family transaction.

## Relationships

### [Phillis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conscious_lovers_se/characters/phillis)

_professional_

Lucinda is the mistress and Phillis her maid, sharing a friendly but hierarchical relationship with confidences exchanged.

### [Cimberton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conscious_lovers_se/characters/cimberton)

_romantic_

Cimberton is an unwanted, pompous suitor pursuing Lucinda for her fortune, which she resists.

### [Sir John Bevil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conscious_lovers_se/characters/sir_john_bevil)

_social_

Lucinda is the daughter of Mr. Sealand, and Sir John is a family friend involved in arranging her marriage.

### [Myrtle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conscious_lovers_se/characters/myrtle)

_romantic_

Lucinda and Myrtle are secretly in love, but their relationship is complicated by arranged marriage pressures.

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