# Where Angels Fear to Tread — Character guide

> Key figures in Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster.

- [Philip Herriton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/where_angels_fear_to_tread_se/characters/philip_herriton.md): Philip is the clever, sardonic son of a domineering Sawston family, dispatched to Italy to manage his sister-in-law's disgraceful marriage. He adores Italy as an idea — Etruscan ruins, Renaissance beauty — but recoils wh
- [Caroline Abbott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/where_angels_fear_to_tread_se/characters/caroline_abbott.md): Miss Abbott travels to Monteriano as the Herritons' companion, but she is the one who first told Lilia to follow her heart — and she carries that guilt like a stone. Earnest, self-scrutinizing, and braver than she looks,
- [Gino Carella](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/where_angels_fear_to_tread_se/characters/gino_carella.md): Gino is young, charming, and utterly outside the Herritons' social world — exactly the kind of person Philip's Italy-worship never imagined. He loves Lilia with real passion, but he is also proud, quick-tempered, and uni
- [Lilia Theobald](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/where_angels_fear_to_tread_se/characters/lilia_theobald.md): Lilia is the Herritons' sister-in-law, shipped off to Italy to recover from her husband's death and promptly seduced by Monteriano's warmth and a handsome stranger. Impulsive, gauche, and starved of affection, she mistak
- [Harriet Herriton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/where_angels_fear_to_tread_se/characters/harriet_herriton.md): Harriet is the Herriton conscience at its most inflexible — a woman who measures the world by Sawston standards and finds Italy wanting. She accompanies Philip to Monteriano not to understand but to correct, and her cert
- [Mrs. Herriton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/where_angels_fear_to_tread_se/characters/mrs_herriton.md): Mrs. Herriton rules Sawston from her drawing-room, dispensing judgments wrapped in good manners and expecting her children to obey without question. She sees Lilia's Italian marriage as a stain to be scrubbed out, and sh
- [Irma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/where_angels_fear_to_tread_se/characters/irma.md): Lilia's young daughter from her first marriage, left in England.
- [Perfetta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/where_angels_fear_to_tread_se/characters/perfetta.md): Gino's devoted and sharp-tongued servant in Monteriano.
- [Spiridione](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/where_angels_fear_to_tread_se/characters/spiridione.md): A friend of Gino's in Monteriano who assists with local matters.

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