# The Tunnel — Character guide

> Key figures in The Tunnel by Dorothy M. Richardson.

- [Miriam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/miriam.md): Miriam scrapes a living on a pound a week while hoarding a secret inner life of lectures, concerts, and half-formed ambitions. She bristles at being managed — by landladies, by well-meaning Miss Dears, by her own longing
- [Unknown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/unknown_narrator.md): This is the consciousness through which the world reaches us — registering the grain of wallpaper, the chill of a washstand, the strange familiarity of a room she has never entered before. It believes in omens, in 'comin
- [Alma Wilson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/alma_wilson.md): Alma writes in exclamation marks — 'You dear old thing!' — proposing a sequestered teashop reunion and the confession of her marriage. To Miriam she is both a triumph recalled and a defection: someone who has 'gone in am
- [Mag](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/mag.md): Mag belongs to the domestic background of Miriam's life, one of the figures whose watching shapes how Miriam comports herself. She is less a confidante than a witness, and the novel's attention to her gaze says something
- [Mr. Hancock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/hancock.md): Mr. Hancock mentions, almost offhand, that he belongs to the science lectures — and Miriam's world tilts. He is at ease among the 'gentle enlightened faces' of the library, in his right place, while she stands at the thr
- [Harriett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/harriett.md): Harriett is bound up with Miriam's memory of a week of nightly theatre — the curtain, the orchestra, the 'perfection of happiness' on her face. But she is also the person Miriam cannot write to truthfully, because the le
- [Jan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/jan.md): A figure from Miriam's past whose world of country manners and pretty dresses Miriam can read through like glass while remaining, to them, a closed book.
- [Mr. Wilson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/mr_wilson.md): The husband behind Alma's sudden marriage, whose existence turns an old schoolfriend's triumphant postcard into a quiet crisis in Miriam's hall.
- [Mrs.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/mrs_unknown.md): An unnamed married woman referenced in the narrative.
- [Miss Teresa Szigmondy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/miss_teresa_szigmondy.md): A named female character, possibly a social acquaintance.
- [Mr. Taunton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/mr_taunton.md): A male character, possibly a neighbor or professional contact.
- [Mr. Grove](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/mr_grove.md): A male character mentioned in the narrative.
- [Old Tremayne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/old_tremayne.md): An older male character, possibly a family friend or local figure.
- [Gerald](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/gerald.md): A male character, possibly a suitor or relative of Miriam.
- [Mr. Orly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/mr_orly.md): A male character, possibly a neighbor or acquaintance.
- [Mrs. Bailey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/mrs_bailey.md): A married female character, possibly a servant or neighbor.
- [Eve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/eve.md): A female character, possibly a friend or relative.
- [Miss Dear](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/miss_dear.md): A female character, possibly a governess or companion.
- [Mrs. Orly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/mrs_orly.md): The wife of Mr. Orly, a married female character.
- [Mr. Leyton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/mr_leyton.md): A male character, possibly a professional or neighbor.
- [Miss Henderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/miss_henderson.md): A female character, possibly a socialite or acquaintance.
- [Mrs. Canfield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/mrs_canfield.md): A married female character, possibly a neighbor.
- [Dr. Ashley Densley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_tunnel_se/characters/dr_ashley_densley.md): A doctor, possibly a neighbor or family physician.

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