# The Dewy Morn — Character guide

> Key figures in The Dewy Morn by Richard Jefferies.

- [Felise Goring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/felise_goring.md): Felise moves through Beechknoll and the Maasbury fields with a freedom that unsettles the men who watch her — Martial Barnard suspects her of design, Robert Godwin loves her hopelessly from a distance, and her father's h
- [Martial Barnard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/martial_barnard.md): Martial manages his land with the same rigid independence he brings to his emotions, having decided that love is a weakness he has already outgrown. Yet he cannot stop watching Felise through an opera-glass, reasoning ab
- [Robert Godwin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/robert_godwin.md): Godwin is the competent, upright man of business whose inner life has been entirely colonized by Felise — he works, rides, and signs cheques as a shell while his mind stays fixed on her. He knows with clear-eyed certaint
- [Mr. Goring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/mr_goring.md): Mr. Goring occupies Beechknoll with the ease of a man who has fought his public battles and no longer needs to win private ones. He keeps his house open to Robert Godwin even as the steward rages about fences and fishing
- [Letitia Cornleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/letitia_cornleigh.md): Letitia Cornleigh Cornleigh married into the estate as a dowerless woman selected to supply the will her husband lacked, and she has ruled ever since — reshaping the town, policing the cottages, and enforcing a harsh law
- [Abner Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/abner_brown.md): Abner Brown goes to the Squire with a grievance and comes away muttering about grandsires and better men, his dignity wounded more by being passed off to a steward than by the original complaint. He is ungrateful to Feli
- [Mary Shaw](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/mary_shaw.md): Known to the village as pretty Polly Shaw, she keeps the local lads at arm's length with a toss of her head and a silver brooch gifted by Felise. When Robert Godwin makes her a dishonourable proposal in the wheatfield, s
- [Ruy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/ruy.md): Ruy belongs to Martial, the man Felise loves, and the animal has known her kindness at the stable and in the field. When Godwin binds Felise to the ground and tries to drive the horse's hoof down upon her face, Ruy balks
- [Rosa Wood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/rosa_wood.md): Bright, talkative, and eligible in every way, Rosa is courted by Martial Barnard with a fervour that has more to do with his own imagination than with her. She genuinely loves him, but she is commonplace where he is exal
- [Justice Shallow Cornleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/justice_shallow_cornleigh.md): Cornleigh reigns but Letitia governs — a marriage arranged precisely because his family knew he needed a strong will to guide him. Together they preside over Maasbury's improvements and a severe moral law: if a cottage g
- [Miller Bond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/miller_bond.md): A miller by trade, a minor but named character.
- [Luke Bond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/luke_bond.md): A younger member of the Bond family.
- [Sir Edward Cornleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/sir_edward_cornleigh.md): A titled member of the Cornleigh family.
- [Miss Barnard (eldest)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/miss_barnard_eldest.md): One of the Barnard sisters, often mentioned collectively.
- [The Squire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/the_squire.md): A local landowner and figure of authority.
- [Miss Goring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dewy_morn_se/characters/miss_goring.md): Likely a relative of Felise, possibly an aunt or sister.

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