# Muriel Allardyce — The Cream of the Jest character guide

> Muriel Allardyce in The Cream of the Jest by James Branch Cabell.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Muriel

**First appearance:** 0013-x-of-idle-speculations-in-a-library

## Who they are

A friend of the Kennastons, involved in social circles and local gossip.

## Relationships

### [Felix Kennaston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cream_of_the_jest_se/characters/felix_kennaston)

_social_

Muriel is a social acquaintance of Felix, part of his real-world circle in Lichfield.

### [Felix Kennaston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cream_of_the_jest_se/characters/felix_kennaston)

_social_

Muriel is a social acquaintance of Felix, part of his real-world circle in Lichfield.

## In the story

### [XI: How There Was a Light in the Fog](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cream_of_the_jest_se/chapters/xi-how-there-was-a-light-in-the-fog)

Mentioned as someone Kennaston had previously spoken to about Beatricê Cenci.

### [XV: Of Vain Regret and Wonder in the Dark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cream_of_the_jest_se/chapters/xv-of-vain-regret-and-wonder-in-the-dark)

Recalled by Kennaston as standing similarly in a doorway at the Royal Hotel.

### [XXIX: Of Poetic Love: Treated with Poetic Inefficiency](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cream_of_the_jest_se/chapters/xxix-of-poetic-love-treated-with-poetic-inefficiency)

Kennaston's former lover, encountered at the train station; she pleads with him to come away with her.

### [XXX: Cross-Purposes in Spacious Times](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cream_of_the_jest_se/chapters/xxx-cross-purposes-in-spacious-times)

Mentioned as the person Kennaston talked with during the day before the dream.

### [XL: Which Mr. Flaherty Does Not Quite Explain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cream_of_the_jest_se/chapters/xl-which-mr-flaherty-does-not-quite-explain)

Mentioned as having a jar of Harrowby's Crême Cleopatre in her handbag.

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