# Lady Mirdath the Beautiful — The Night Land character guide

> Lady Mirdath the Beautiful in The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mirdath, the Lady Mirdath, Mirdath the Beautiful

**First appearance:** 0002-i-mirdath-the-beautiful

## Snapshot

The beautiful lady of Kent whose laughter first answered the narrator's at dusk, and whose death haunts his spirit across ages.

## Who they are

Lady Mirdath the Beautiful is the neighbor and cousin the narrator meets by chance on a country road at sunset, when her voice answers his half-believing laugh with 'And thou also!' Their love grows into a union he later describes as the especial glory of Love, a fire burning all Littleness. When she dies, he is left alone with only the memory of her grace, and that loss becomes the wound driving his later quest.

## In the story

### [The Night Land](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/chapters/the-night-land)

The narrator's lost love from a previous life, whose memory drives his quest.

### [I: Mirdath the Beautiful](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/chapters/i-mirdath-the-beautiful)

The beautiful lady known throughout Kent; she meets the narrator, saves him from a mad hound, marries him, and dies after childbirth.

### [II: The Last Redoubt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/chapters/ii-the-last-redoubt)

Mentioned as the Narrator's lost love whose death left him in anguish, and with whom he hopes to reunite in future lives.

### [The Quiet Calling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/chapters/iii-the-quiet-calling)

The narrator's lost love from a past age, whose memory and love-name are invoked by Naani's call.

### [X: The Maid of the Olden Days](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/chapters/x-the-maid-of-the-olden-days)

Her voice is heard in Naani's call, merging with Naani's identity in the narrator's perception.

### [The Homeward Way](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/chapters/xi-the-homeward-way)

Recalled in a moment of shared memory when Naani and the narrator repeat a childhood gesture.

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