# Alma — The Faerie Queene character guide

> Alma in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** gentle Alma

**First appearance:** 0044-canto-ix

## Who they are

The lady of the House of Temperance, representing the soul.

## In the story

### [Canto IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faerie_queene_se/chapters/canto-ix)

The lady of the castle, representing Temperance, who guides the knights through the allegorical chambers of the mind.

### [Canto X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faerie_queene_se/chapters/canto-x)

Hosts the knights and breaks their studies for supper.

### [Canto XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faerie_queene_se/chapters/canto-xi)

Hosts the knights, provides a boat for Guyon, and later tends to Arthur's wounds.

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