# The Enchanted April — Character guide

> Key figures in The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim.

- [Mrs. Fisher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_april_se/characters/mrs_fisher.md): Mrs. Fisher arrives at San Salvatore as the eldest and most formidable of the four women, armed with a lifetime of literary connections and an unshakable conviction that her way is the only way. Her refusal to be charmed
- [Mrs. Wilkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_april_se/characters/mrs_wilkins.md): Lotty Wilkins is the engine of the plot: it is her sudden, rapturous idea to rent San Salvatore that gathers the four women under one roof. Married to the pompous Mellersh, she has learned to read people with startling a
- [Mrs. Arbuthnot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_april_se/characters/mrs_arbuthnot.md): Rose Arbuthnot is Lotty's friend and fellow adventurer, a woman of strict conscience and hidden hunger whose Hampstead house is cold and whose husband Frederick is mostly absent. At San Salvatore she is stirred but not c
- [Scrap](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_april_se/characters/scrap.md): Lady Caroline Dester — 'Scrap' — is the youngest and most dazzling of the four, accustomed to being stared at and courted and thoroughly bored by both. San Salvatore unsettles her: almost at once she feels accused of bei
- [Mr. Wilkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_april_se/characters/mr_wilkins.md): Mellersh Wilkins is a solicitor whose pomposity Lotty has endured for years, and whose unannounced visit to Italy threatens to reassert the domestic order she fled. He is not a villain so much as a man incapable of seein
- [Frederick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_april_se/characters/frederick.md): A mysterious figure often referenced as a past love or memory.
- [Mr. Briggs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_april_se/characters/mr_briggs.md): Thomas Briggs is the young, unmarried proprietor of the castle, lonely enough to have let it out for the spring and domestic enough to feel the absence of a wife and children keenly. Walking with Rose along his own paths
- [Costanza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_april_se/characters/costanza.md): The Italian maid at San Salvatore who assists the guests.
- [Domenico](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_april_se/characters/domenico.md): The gardener and handyman at the villa.
- [Francesca](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_april_se/characters/francesca.md): A young Italian servant at San Salvatore.
- [Mr. Ferdinand Arundel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_april_se/characters/mr_arundel.md): Everyone in London knows him as Arundel, and he has written under the name so long he almost believes it is his own; he arrives at San Salvatore expressly to see Lady Caroline, only to find himself swept back into the ar
- [Kate Lumley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_april_se/characters/kate_lumley.md): A friend or acquaintance of the main characters, mentioned occasionally.
- [Mr. Fisher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_april_se/characters/mr_fisher.md): Mrs. Fisher's deceased husband, referenced in conversation.

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