The Lost World · Character
Gladys
The beautiful, clear-eyed woman Malone adores, who tells him she could only love a man of great deeds and strange experiences — and means it.
supporting
Also known as Lake Gladys
First appearance: I: There Are Heroisms All Round Us
As a supporting figure in The Lost World, Gladys is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Malone's love interest, whose desire for a heroic man spurs Malone to join the expedition.
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Gladys refuses Malone not out of cruelty but out of an honest, romantic idealism: she wants a Burton or a Stanley, a man whose glories she could reflect. Her rejection sends Malone straight into Challenger's orbit and…
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Supporting and background figures
- Protagonist
- Expedition members and associates
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
This is the story's dramatic climax because it marks the emotional and psychological peak of the narrator's pr…
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Gladys appears across 4 companion beats. Open any chapter in the free preview to see the notes beside the text.
- The Lost World
- I: There Are Heroisms All Round Us
- He Is a Perfectly Impossible Person
- XVI: A Procession! A Procession!
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See Gladys in I: There Are Heroisms All Round Us