# Lucia Marese — World’s End character guide

> Lucia Marese in World’s End by Richard Jefferies.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** VII Lucia Marese, Lucia, Aurelian Marese, darling Lucia, VII Everyone

**First appearance:** 0000-book-i-facts

## Who they are

A woman whose beauty and ambition carry her from provincial obscurity to the Paris stage, and whose choices destroy the man who married her.

## In the story

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/viii)

Eagerly embraces the plan to perform on stage, culminating in her Lady Godiva role.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/ix)

Performs as Cleopatra and Lady Godiva in Paris and Vienna, achieving fame; remains calm after Sternhold's assassination attempt.

### [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/x)

After her son's safety is secured, she returns to Paris, returns to the stage, and forms a liaison with a rich foreign gentleman, sinking into degradation.

### [The Tangled Web of Inheritance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/xi)

Sternhold's wife whose extravagance contributed to the family's debts.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/xii)

Her appearance as Lady Godiva is mentioned as a diorama subject in the claimants' lectures.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/xiii)

Marese's mother, noted for overweening vanity and intense temper resembling lunacy.

### [Book II: Persons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/book-ii-persons)

Mentioned in connection with her performance as Lady Godiva and her role in the family drama.

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