# Tono-Bungay — Character guide

> Key figures in Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells.

- [George Ponderevo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/george_ponderevo.md): George grows up on the edges of Bladesover, the great house where his mother is housekeeper, and learns early that English society is a system of places one is expected to keep. He is apprenticed, trained in science, and
- [Edward Ponderevo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/edward_ponderevo.md): Edward Ponderevo is George's uncle, a failed draper's assistant turned patent-medicine promoter whose energy and shamelessness make Tono-Bungay a national phenomenon. He loves his wife Susan, adores his nephew, and belie
- [Beatrice Normandy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/beatrice_normandy.md): Beatrice Normandy belongs to the old order George grew up serving, the Honourable daughter of a Normandy and stepdaughter to Lady Osprey. She is beautiful, decisive, and impatient with the conventions that constrain her,
- [Marion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/marion.md): Marion Ramboat is the daughter of a Walham Green household, engaged to George for years while he scrambles toward the three hundred a year she insists on. She is not cruel, only prudent, and her stipulations about semide
- [Ewart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/ewart.md): Ewart is George's friend from the art-school years, a painter of odd, unfinished pictures and a theorist of the crosswise life, forever explaining that most people live in character while a few are jerked out of their st
- [Susan Ponderevo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/susan_ponderevo.md): Susan Ponderevo meets her nephew George for the first time in the Wimblehurst shop, a slender woman of twenty-three or four in a pale blue morning dress, apologizing that there is nothing in the house to offer. She loves
- [Gordon-Nasmyth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/gordon_nasmyth.md): Gordon-Nasmyth belongs to the circle of scientifically minded men around George, the sort whose talk drifts from patents to prospects and back again. Where George hesitates between invention and commerce, Nasmyth leans t
- [Cothope](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/cothope.md): Cothope works at George's elbow in the workshop, translating ambitious designs into rivets, plates, and engines that must actually float and move. He is the grounded counterweight to George's flights of invention, valued
- [Effie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/effie.md): A maid at Bladesover, briefly involved with young George.
- [Archie Garvell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/archie_garvell.md): A young aristocrat, rival for Beatrice's affections.
- [Pollack](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/pollack.md): A friend of George from his student days in London.
- [Smithie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/smithie.md): A fellow student and friend of George in London.
- [Mutney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/mutney.md): A friend of George, part of the London student circle.
- [Nannie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/nannie.md): A servant at Bladesover, kind to young George.
- [Mr. Grundy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/mr_grundy.md): A neighbor and acquaintance of the Ponderevos.
- [Lady Osprey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/lady_osprey.md): An aristocratic lady, Beatrice's grandmother or guardian.
- [Lady Drew](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/lady_drew.md): A local aristocrat at Bladesover.
- [Mrs. Mackridge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/mrs_mackridge.md): A friend of Susan Ponderevo, part of social circles.
- [Lord Boom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/lord_boom.md): A peer and business associate of Edward Ponderevo.
- [Lord Carnaby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/lord_carnaby.md): An aristocratic acquaintance of the Ponderevos.
- [Milly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/milly.md): A young woman briefly involved with George.
- [Uncle Frapp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/uncle_frapp.md): George's uncle, a stern and religious man.
- [Mrs. Hogberry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/mrs_hogberry.md): A neighbor in Wimblehurst.
- [Mr. Rabbits](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/mr_rabbits.md): A chemist in Wimblehurst, George's employer.
- [Mr. Wachorn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/mr_wachorn.md): A business contact of Edward Ponderevo.
- [Mrs. Booch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/mrs_booch.md): A landlady or neighbor in London.
- [Mr. Ramboat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/mr_ramboat.md): A business associate of Edward Ponderevo.
- [Neal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/neal.md): A friend or acquaintance of George.
- [Miss Fison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/miss_fison.md): A teacher or acquaintance.
- [Ann](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/ann.md): A servant at Bladesover.
- [Bob Ewart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/bob_ewart.md): Ewart's brother, a minor character.
- [Young Roots](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/young_roots.md): A local boy at Bladesover.
- [Mrs. Latude-Fernay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/mrs_latitude_fernay.md): A social acquaintance.
- [Ropper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/ropper.md): A friend or associate.
- [Mrs. Ponderevo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/mrs_ponderevo.md): George's mother, a housekeeper at Bladesover.
- [Sir Cuthbert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/sir_cuthbert.md): An acquaintance of the Ponderevos.
- [Mrs. Frapp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/mrs_frapp.md): Wife of Uncle Frapp.
- [Mrs. Hampton Diggs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tono_bungay_se/characters/mrs_hampton_diggs.md): A social acquaintance.

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