# The Perennial Bachelor — Character guide

> Key figures in The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish.

- [Maggie Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/maggie_campion.md): Maggie is the eldest Campion daughter — bold as brass one moment, crimson with shyness the next, forever tearing petticoats and carrying hop-toads in her hat. Her love expresses itself in gruff boasts and awful faces, an
- [Victor Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/victor_campion.md): The only son of the Campion family, Victor has been treated as too sensitive for ordinary life since childhood — every resource spent on him, every comfort arranged around him. He drifts through romances and Sunday baths
- [Mamma Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/mamma_campion.md): Mamma Campion presides over The Maples with an eye toward her children's marriages and social standing, already walking daughters down imaginary aisles and holding phantom grandchildren. Her efforts to make things pleasa
- [Lily Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/lily_campion.md): Lily is the Campion sister who stays — the one who reads the Sunday papers cover to cover, cuts out poems with a hairpin, and sits up late making candy for Victor's return. She loves her brother with a quiet, watchful an
- [Aunt Priscilla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/aunt_priscilla.md): Aunt Priscilla is the elderly relative whose visits bring commentary, wine, and fruitcake, and whose eyes miss nothing — especially Victor's susceptibility to a certain perfumed caller. She speaks in a quaint, old-fashio
- [Lucy Hawthorn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/lucy_hawthorn.md): Lucy is the girl Victor believed himself engaged to — until her letter arrives declaring her intention to marry Count René de la Villeblanche and calling their romance the friendship of children. She is offstage for much
- [Edward Post](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/edward_post.md): Edward is the absent beloved whose fat letters from the Far West turn Maggie into a dazzled stranger to her own family, and whose homecoming the household awaits with breathless curiosity. The tension is the gap between 
- [Daisy Blow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/daisy_blow.md): A character with a name suggesting innocence, possibly a contrast to others.
- [Mr. Alfred Lacey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/alfred_lacey.md): Mr. Lacey is the wealthy, self-satisfied visitor whose teatime calls stretch past the hour for lighting the wax candles, discoursing on Darwinism and mannish ladies while Mamma flutters between horror and delight. His no
- [Margaret Southmayd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/margaret_southmayd.md): Margaret is the soft, appealing bride whose helplessness charms Victor into fetching her thimble and abandoning his attempts to improve her mind. She dozes through poetry, dreads cold water and horses, and cheerfully let
- [Papa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/papa.md): The father figure in the Campion household, often referenced.
- [Cousin Lizzie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/cousin_lizzie.md): Cousin Lizzie exists in the family's talk as both a sympathy and a lesson: married to the foolish sixty-five-year-old Cousin Sam, who has taken the painted young Daisy, she is the woman Maggie and Aunt Priscilla pity whi
- [Uncle Willie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/uncle_willie.md): An uncle, possibly with a jovial or problematic personality.
- [Mr. Robinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/mr_robinson.md): A gentleman mentioned in the social circle, possibly a suitor or friend.
- [Mrs. Hawthorn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/mrs_hawthorn.md): Lucy's mother, part of the family network.
- [Fannie Page](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/fannie_page.md): A young woman from the Page family, possibly a friend of the Campions.
- [Old Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/old_mother.md): A generic older woman, possibly a servant or local figure.
- [Poor May](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/poor_may.md): Maggie Campion, referred to with pity in certain contexts.
- [Lady Peggy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/lady_peggy.md): A character with a title, possibly a nickname for Maggie.
- [Marie Antoinette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/marie_antoinette.md): A historical figure, possibly referenced in a tableau.
- [Frances Brincklerbee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/frances_brincklerbee.md): A character whose name appears in the title, possibly a pseudonym.

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