# Zerrilla Millon — The Rise of Silas Lapham character guide

> Zerrilla Millon in The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Zerrilla, Miss Dewey, Dewey, Z'rilla

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Who they are

A young woman from a poor family who becomes entangled with the Laphams through Rogers.

## Relationships

### [Silas Lapham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rise_of_silas_lapham_se/characters/silas_lapham)

_professional_

Zerrilla is a poor young woman whom Silas employs out of pity, though it causes gossip.

### [Silas Lapham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rise_of_silas_lapham_se/characters/silas_lapham)

_professional_

Zerrilla is a poor young woman whom Silas employs out of pity, though it causes gossip.

### [Silas Lapham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rise_of_silas_lapham_se/characters/silas_lapham)

_professional_

Zerrilla is a poor young woman whom Silas employs out of pity, though it causes gossip.

## In the story

### [Chapter XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rise_of_silas_lapham_se/chapters/xxiii)

Brings her mother to confront Lapham for money; later asks Lapham for help with her father's drinking.

### [Chapter XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rise_of_silas_lapham_se/chapters/xxvi)

The pretty young woman operating a typewriter in Lapham's office; she becomes the object of Mrs. Lapham's jealousy and suspicion.

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