# The Splendid Fairing — Character guide

> Key figures in The Splendid Fairing by Constance Holme.

- [Sarah Thornthwaite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_fairing_se/characters/sarah_thornthwaite.md): Sarah keeps Sandholes running on little while Eliza of Blindbeck measures every Thornthwaite possession against her own and finds it wanting. Her one unanswerable pride is her son Geordie, the rattlehorn she believes wil
- [Simon Thornthwaite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_fairing_se/characters/simon_thornthwaite.md): Simon can judge a beast, doctor a herd, and design a water-supply better than any man at Blindbeck, yet Sandholes stays cursed and poor while his younger brother Will prospers. He airs his knowledge freely in Will's ship
- [Eliza of Blindbeck](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_fairing_se/characters/eliza_of_blindbeck.md): Eliza intended to marry Simon and never forgave Sarah for winning him, so she has spent forty years sneering, striking, and inviting the world to mark the gulf between the Wills and the Simon Thornthwaites. Her wealth an
- [May Fleming](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_fairing_se/characters/may_fleming.md): May nurses her ailing father at the inn and runs its errands, but her heart stays fixed on Sandholes and on Geordie, whose return she suddenly feels as certain as if he were knocking at the door. She insists she is past 
- [Geordie Thornthwaite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_fairing_se/characters/geordie_thornthwaite.md): Geordie is the one point on which Sarah will not yield to Eliza, the boy she is sure has stuff in him that will someday prove itself to the world. To the wider clan he is a wastrel with a smile, and to May Fleming he is 
- [Jim Thornthwaite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_fairing_se/characters/jim_thornthwaite.md): Jim walks into Sarah's kitchen uninvited, cheerfully immune to her curses, and announces he has news of Geordie. His easy, dominant presence fills the cobwebbed house like too heady a wine, and his old extorted freedom o
- [Will Thornthwaite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_fairing_se/characters/will_thornthwaite.md): The prosperous Thornthwaite brother whose plush furniture and mahogany set the standard by which his kin are forever measured and found wanting.
- [Mr. Dent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_fairing_se/characters/mr_dent.md): The agent who receives Simon's notice to quit and, oddly, keeps asking after the wife who stayed behind in town.
- [Elliman Wilkinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_fairing_se/characters/elliman_wilkinson.md): A young neighbor whose wish for brass and independence brushes against Sarah's hard-won knowledge of what money really buys.
- [Sam Battersby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_fairing_se/characters/sam_battersby.md): A Kitty Fold man adrift in the market-day crowd, lingering near Sarah and May's table as if summoned by something he cannot name.
- [Mrs. Addison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_fairing_se/characters/mrs_addison.md): A married couple in the community, often seen at gatherings.
- [Jamie Lowther](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_fairing_se/characters/jamie_lowther.md): A figure from the past, referenced in family stories.

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