# Ethel Harrogate — The Wisdom of Father Brown character guide

> Ethel Harrogate in The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Miss Ethel Harrogate, Harrogate, Ethel Harrogate, Miss Harrogate, Ethel, Miss Ethel

**First appearance:** 0013-the-fairy-tale-of-father-brown

## Snapshot

A banker's golden-haired daughter, proud of her father's prosperity and an arrant flirt, who thrills to tales of the King of Thieves.

## Who they are

Ethel Harrogate is the radiant centre of the hotel table, her Greek head set above the sapphire sea like a goddess's. Proud, fond of fashionable pleasures, and a fond daughter but an arrant flirt, she wears her conventionality with a golden good-nature that makes her worldly respectability fresh and hearty. Her schoolgirl relish for the brigands said to haunt the mountain pass draws the party toward the danger that will test them all.

## In the story

### [The Paradise of Thieves](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wisdom_of_father_brown_se/chapters/the-paradise-of-thieves)

The beautiful and vivacious daughter of the banker, who laughs and teases but later shows filial devotion to her father when danger strikes.

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