# Edward Post — The Perennial Bachelor character guide

> Edward Post in The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Edward, Teddy, XVI Edward

**First appearance:** 0001-the-perennial-bachelor

## Snapshot

The Far West suitor whose letters make practical Maggie cry and kiss the pages, Edward returns to a snowbound reunion neither party can quite believe is real.

## Who they are

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 the ecstatic written word and the awkward flesh: at the station he cannot really kiss her, the hat gets in the way, and Albert's ears loom over the carriage. His arrival tests whether longing survives proximity, anchoring the novel's early meditation on romance versus the ordinary.

## Relationships

### [Maggie Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/maggie_campion)

_romantic_

Edward is a persistent suitor of Maggie, but she keeps him at arm's length, creating a one-sided romantic dynamic.

### [Maggie Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/maggie_campion)

_romantic_

Edward is a persistent suitor of Maggie, but she keeps him at arm's length, creating a one-sided romantic dynamic.

### [Maggie Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/maggie_campion)

_romantic_

Edward is a persistent suitor of Maggie, but she keeps him at arm's length, creating a one-sided romantic dynamic.

## In the story

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/xii)

Plays Sir Lancelot in the tableau, flirts with May, and plans to visit for archery on Saturday.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/xiii)

Visits the Campions, participates in archery and swimming, and shows increasing interest in Maggie.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/xiv)

Maggie's fiancé, deeply in love and anxious about the time apart before their marriage.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/xv)

Maggie longs for him and almost prays to dream of him, but he does not appear in her dreams.

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/xvi)

Returns to visit Maggie, bringing news of a job in South America and the possibility of their immediate marriage. His arrival is marked by awkwardness and unmet expectations.

### [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/xxii)

Present at the wedding with another woman, causing Maggie to finally accept that he will never be hers.

### [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/xxviii)

His autograph in Victor's book is found, and Maggie recalls a memory under the pear tree.

### [The Diagnosis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/xxx)

Appears in Maggie's memory from a Tennyson tableau.

## Links

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