# The Haunted Hotel — Character guide

> Key figures in The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins.

- [Agnes Lockwood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/agnes_lockwood.md): Clear-eyed and quietly courageous, Agnes Lockwood returns to the Venetian hotel where her former suitor died, only to find its secrets reaching for her again.
- [Henry Westwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/henry_westwick.md): Henry Westwick arrives at the hotel determined to protect Agnes and probe its mysteries, his brother's haunted history sharpening every question he asks.
- [Francis Westwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/francis_westwick.md): Francis Westwick, whose earlier stay at the Venetian hotel left him shaken, remains entangled in the family tragedy that draws his brother Henry back to its walls.
- [Lady Montbarry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/lady_montbarry.md): The new Lady Montbarry, black-robed and glittering-eyed, arrives at Agnes's door with a question — and a reputation that precedes her across Europe.
- [Mrs. Ferrari](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/mrs_ferrari.md): Timid Mrs. Ferrari clings to three letters and a vanished husband, turning to Agnes for help when the Venetian palace swallows her courier without a trace.
- [Lord Montbarry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/lord_montbarry.md): The late Lord Montbarry, whose secluded Venetian death and foreign burial leave more questions than grief, haunts the living long after his funeral.
- [Doctor Wybrow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/doctor_wybrow.md): Doctor Wybrow belongs to the circle of respectable professionals drawn into the strange business at the Venetian hotel, where his medical authority is quietly tested against events that resist ordinary explanation. His i
- [Mr. Troy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/mr_troy.md): Mr. Troy serves as a steady, practical presence among the Westwicks, the kind of man consulted when a family needs sense rather than sensation. He approaches the hotel's strange reputation the way he would a dubious cont
- [Mrs. Rolland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/mrs_rolland.md): Mrs. Rolland moves through the hotel's social world with the ease of someone who knows its corridors and its secrets better than she admits. Her connection to the Westwicks places her at the intersection of family loyalt
- [Emily Bidwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/emily_bidwell.md): Emily Bidwell is the kind of young woman the Westwicks would naturally wish to shelter, which is precisely why the hotel's influence over her becomes so troubling. Her youth and openness stand in sharp contrast to the st
- [Mrs. Norbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/mrs_norbury.md): A friend or acquaintance of the main characters.
- [Arthur Barville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/arthur_barville.md): A gentleman connected to the Montbarry family.
- [Baron Rivar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/baron_rivar.md): A foreign nobleman with a role in the hotel's history.
- [Countess Narona](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/countess_narona.md): A mysterious woman with ties to the Montbarry affair.
- [Miss Haldane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/miss_haldane.md): A young woman briefly mentioned in the narrative.
- [Mr. Ferrari](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/mr_ferrari.md): The missing husband of Mrs. Ferrari, a key figure in the mystery.
- [Mrs. Westwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/mrs_westwick.md): The wife of a Westwick brother, appears briefly.
- [Stephen Robert Westwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/stephen_robert_westwick.md): Another brother of the Westwick family.
- [Sir Theodore Barville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_hotel_se/characters/sir_theodore_barville.md): A baronet connected to the story.

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