# Maggie Schofield — The Rainbow character guide

> Maggie Schofield in The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Maggie, Miss Schofield

**First appearance:** 0013-x-the-widening-circle

## Snapshot

Ursula's kind, steady fellow teacher, a warm presence in the staffroom whose friendship offers respite from the school's daily humiliations.

## Who they are

Maggie shares Ursula's classroom world of chalk dust, difficult children, and a headmaster's petty tyranny, and meets it with a gentleness Ursula cannot always muster. She is the friend who listens without demanding, whose ordinary decency throws the intensity of Ursula's inner life into relief. In the middle stretch of the novel, as Ursula strains against the limits of teaching and love, Maggie's loyalty becomes one of the few reliable comforts — and a quiet measure of what a life without torment might look like.

## Relationships

### [Ursula Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rainbow_se/characters/ursula_brangwen)

_friendship_

Maggie is a close friend and fellow teacher who provides Ursula with companionship and support.

### [Ursula Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rainbow_se/characters/ursula_brangwen)

_friendship_

Maggie is a close friend and fellow teacher who provides Ursula with companionship and support.

### [Ursula Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rainbow_se/characters/ursula_brangwen)

_friendship_

Maggie is a close friend and fellow teacher who provides Ursula with companionship and support.

## In the story

### [XIII: The Man’s World](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rainbow_se/chapters/xiii-the-man-s-world)

Ursula's friend and fellow teacher at St. Philip's; they attend suffrage meetings, concerts, and exhibitions together.

### [XIV: The Widening Circle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rainbow_se/chapters/xiv-the-widening-circle)

Maggie is Ursula's friend from Belcote Hall. She becomes somewhat distant and reserved as Ursula grows closer to her brother Anthony.

## Links

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