The Windfairies · Character

Lucilla

A miller's daughter who danced with windfairies as a child and now will marry no suitor who cannot match her step for step.

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Also known as little Lucilla, Poor Lucilla

First appearance: The Windfairies

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The miller's daughter who meets the windfairies, learns to dance, marries a sailor, and is later saved by the windfairies.

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Lucilla grows up solitary on the downs, admired by fisher folk for dancing that seems one with the waves, and she turns away every young man who cannot keep her pace. When a shipwrecked sailor swears he can dance as well as any man, she tests him on the grass — and he answers by catching her waist and holding her still. Her insistence that dancing is the thing she loves best sets the terms of her marriage and the story's central question of what she will trade for it.

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Relationship types

Friendship
Social
Family
Rivalry

Character groups

Protagonist
Pastoral and magical elements
Rural and domestic figures
Notable minor characters

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Relationships

The Windfairies
friendship · positive
A whimsical, protective bond where Lucilla communicates with and is guided by the magical… How this plays out →
The Potter's Wife
friendship · positive
The Wife
social · ambivalent
The Old Gentleman
family · positive
Vain Kesta
rivalry · negative
The Windfairies
friendship · positive
A whimsical, protective bond where Lucilla communicates with and is guided by the magical… How this plays out →
The Windfairies
friendship · positive
A whimsical, protective bond where Lucilla communicates with and is guided by the magical… How this plays out →
The Old Gentleman
family · positive
The Potter's Wife
friendship · positive
The Wife
social · ambivalent

The Windfairies
A whimsical, protective bond where Lucilla communicates with and is guided by the magical Windfairies.
The Potter's Wife
A kind, supportive friendship where Lucilla offers comfort and advice to the troubled Potter's Wife.
The Wife
A cordial but distant neighborly relationship, marked by polite conversation and mutual lack of deep trust.
The Old Gentleman
A warm, affectionate grandfather-granddaughter bond, with the Old Gentleman doting on Lucilla's imaginative nature.
Vain Kesta
A cool, competitive rivalry over beauty and attention, with Lucilla dismissing Kesta's vanity and Kesta mocking Lucilla's innocence.
The Windfairies
A whimsical, protective bond where Lucilla communicates with and is guided by the magical Windfairies.
The Windfairies
A whimsical, protective bond where Lucilla communicates with and is guided by the magical Windfairies.
The Old Gentleman
A warm, affectionate grandfather-granddaughter bond, with the Old Gentleman doting on Lucilla's imaginative nature.
The Potter's Wife
A kind, supportive friendship where Lucilla offers comfort and advice to the troubled Potter's Wife.
The Wife
A cordial but distant neighborly relationship, marked by polite conversation and mutual lack of deep trust.

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