# Mrs. Roper — The Small House at Allington character guide

> Mrs. Roper in The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mrs. Roper, Roper

**First appearance:** 0003-iv-mrs-roper-s-boardinghouse

## Snapshot

The pragmatic landlady of a Burton Crescent boardinghouse who weighs every lodger's rent against the trouble they cause her.

## Who they are

Mrs. Roper presides over the cramped, gossipy world of her London boardinghouse, where clerks, married couples, and spinsters share meals and secrets. She values the Lupexes' hundred pounds a year but soon wishes them gone, caught between profit and the chaos of her tenants' private lives. Her establishment is the stage for John Eames's London life and the small dramas that complicate his courtship of Lily Dale.

## In the story

### [Mrs. Roper's Boardinghouse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/chapters/iv-mrs-roper-s-boardinghouse)

The landlady of the boardinghouse, who tries to maintain respectability but struggles with her daughter's behavior and the questionable lodgers.

### [X: Mrs. Lupex and Amelia Roper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/chapters/x-mrs-lupex-and-amelia-roper)

The landlady who is anxious to be rid of the Lupexes due to the disruption they cause in her house.

### [Social Life](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/chapters/xi-social-life)

She enters the room to break up the fight between Amelia and Mrs. Lupex, trying to restore order.

### [Domestic Troubles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/chapters/xli-domestic-troubles)

Hosts the boarding house; scolds Cradell and decides to evict the Lupexes.

### [John Eames Does Things Which He Ought Not to Have Done](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/chapters/li-john-eames-does-things-which-he-ought-not-to-have-done)

Expresses despair over her financial troubles, the Lupexes' influence, and the loss of respectability in her boarding house.

### [John Eames Becomes a Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_small_house_at_allington_se/chapters/lix-john-eames-becomes-a-man)

In financial trouble due to the Lupexes; Cradell has taken over the house; John visits her.

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