The White Company · Character
Lady Mary Loring
Sir Nigel's wife and mother of Maude.
minor
Also known as Mary, the Lady Mary
First appearance: ii how alleyne edricson came out into the world
Lady Mary Loring shows up with force in How a Young Shepherd Had a Perilous Flock. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Requests Alleyne to tutor Lady Maude and discusses his father and brother the Socman.
Lady Mary Loring first appears in 0003 ii how alleyne edricson came out into the world.
In How a Young Shepherd Had a Perilous Flock: Requests Alleyne to tutor Lady Maude and discusses his father and brother the Socman.
Later, in XIII: How the White Company Set Forth to the Wars: Gives Sir Nigel a purse of money and her glove, then watches him depart from a hilltop.
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- Other
Character groups
- Minor Characters and Background Figures
- White Company Members
- Protagonist
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
This scene is the dramatic climax because it marks the emotional and psychological peak of Sir Nigel’s charact…
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- How a Young Shepherd Had a Perilous Flock
- XIII: How the White Company Set Forth to the Wars
- How the Blessed Hour of Sight Came to the Lady Tiphaine
- XXXVIII: Of the Homecoming to Hampshire
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