# The Golden Bowl — Character guide

> Key figures in The Golden Bowl by Henry James.

- [Maggie Verver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_golden_bowl_se/characters/maggie_verver.md): Maggie enters the novel as Adam Verver's devoted daughter and Amerigo's new wife, navigating a London society that finds her charming but not quite commanding. Her deepest instinct is to keep her father close, even as ma
- [Charlotte Stant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_golden_bowl_se/characters/charlotte_stant.md): Charlotte arrives as Maggie's old friend and quickly becomes Mrs. Verver, the family's designated social success, cheerfully mounting the London treadmill that Maggie never mastered. She professes a frivolous side and a 
- [Prince Amerigo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_golden_bowl_se/characters/prince_amerigo.md): Amerigo wanders Bond Street on the afternoon his marriage date is fixed, feeling the grimness of a key turned in a lock even as fortune smiles on him. He is handsome, reflective, and unmoored—a modern Roman who reads Lon
- [Adam Verver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_golden_bowl_se/characters/adam_verver.md): Adam is the fabulously wealthy patron whose acquisitions—objects, people, arrangements—shape the world his daughter inhabits. He shares with Maggie an almost wordless intimacy, the two of them slipping off from parties a
- [Fanny Assingham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_golden_bowl_se/characters/fanny_assingham.md): Dressed in orange velvet and multiplied turquoises, Fanny works the room like a circus assistant keeping the sleek animal moving while the little Princess performs. She gives Maggie her cue for public brilliance and take
- [Colonel Assingham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_golden_bowl_se/characters/colonel_assingham.md): Robert Assingham disengages, he'll be damned if he doesn't—his extravagant oaths are his box of tin soldiers, harmless battles fought after midnight while servants sleep. He refuses to have a situation of his own, prefer
- [Mrs. Rance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_golden_bowl_se/characters/mrs_rance.md): A minor social acquaintance who appears at gatherings and is interested in Adam Verver.
- [Father Mitchell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_golden_bowl_se/characters/father_mitchell.md): A Catholic priest who appears briefly in the narrative.
- [The Miss Lutches](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_golden_bowl_se/characters/the_lutches.md): Two sisters, friends of the Ververs, who appear at social events.
- [Mr. Gutermann-Seuss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_golden_bowl_se/characters/mr_gutermann_seuss.md): A dealer from whom the Prince and Charlotte buy a golden bowl.

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