Characters in Jane Austen Novels that I forget about

Mrs. Goddard

Minor character in Emma. Mistress of the local boarding school. Mrs. Goddard introduces Harriet Smith to the Woodhouses.

William Price

Mansfield Park. Fanny's beloved brother, who serves in the Royal Navy. He is honorable, devoted to his family, and a source of support and encouragement for Fanny.

James Morland

Northanger Abbey. Catherine's brother, James is a good-natured young man who becomes engaged to Isabella Thorpe. He is ultimately disappointed by Isabella's behavior.

Georgiana Darcy

15/16 year old sister of Mr. Darcy. Mr. Wickham almost tricks her into marrying him. Really good at playing the piano.

Col. Fitzwilliam

cousin of Mr. Darcy; tells Elizabeth that Mr. Wickham is not as good as he seems; has joint guardianship of Georgiana with Mr. Darcy

Anne de Bourgh

Daughter of Catherine de Bourgh, she is quiet and sickly. She is intended to marry Fitzwilliam Darcy.

Sir William Lucas

father of Charlotte Lucas who accompanies Elizabeth on her journey to visit Charlotte and Mr. Collins. Was knighted but is still poor (ish) so people look down on him.

Margaret Dashwood

Sense and Sensibility. Margaret is the youngest Dashwood sister, characterized by her youthfulness and curiosity. She plays a smaller role in the novel compared to her older sisters but still contributes to the family dynamics and storyline.

Fanny Dashwood

S&S.Really annoying and frugal wife of John Dashwood, sister in law to Marianne and Elinor. They have a son named Henry.

Mrs. and Mr. Palmer

S&S.Mrs. Palmer is the sister of Lady Middleton and has a baby in the novel. Mr. Palmer is her husband. Complains a lot but kinda nice.

Mrs. Jennings

S&S. Mrs. Palmer and Lady Middleton's gossipy but well-intentioned mother who invites the Dashwood sisters to stay with her in London and makes it her "project" to marry them off as soon as possible.

Miss Grey

Willoughby's chosen wife; he does not love her, but she has a great deal of money, which is why he chooses her over Marianne.

Captain Harville

persuasion. bro lost his fiance and is really depressed about it and reads too much poetry but then falls in love with louisa cuz she fell on her head.

Mrs. Clay

The daughter of Mr. Shepard (family advisor to Sir Walter), Mrs. Clay soon becomes the friend of Elizabeth Elliot. Though she is of much lower birth, freckled, and not so very attractive, Mrs. Clay is a well-mannered widow. Anne, however, sees danger in the way she endears herself to Sir Walter, and suspects she may seek to marry in a class far above her own.

Mr. Shepard

family advisor to Sir Walter, convinces him to let Admiral Croft stay in his house.

Mr. and Mrs. Harville

Persuasion. Friends of Captain Wentworth. They're the people who live in Lyme and take care of Louisa after her fall.

Mrs. James Cooper

Emma. (nee Milman) is a relative of Mrs. Bird and an acquaintance of Augusta Elton who gave up music after her marriage.

Mrs. Bird

Emma. (nee Milman) is a relative of Mrs. James Cooper and an acquaintance of Augusta Elton who gave up music after her marriage.

Miss Bickerton

Emma. She is a parlor boarder at Mrs. Goddard's school. She attends the ball at the Crown Inn, and the next day, she joins Harriet Smith on a walk down the Richmond road. She panics when she sees a party of "gipies" and a child comes forward to beg, and she screams and runs away. Harriet cramps and is unable to follow her, and she is surrounded by a half dozen begging children until Frank Churchill scares them off.

Mr. Bragge

Emma. He is the husband of Mrs. Bragge, with whom he has several children. He is also related (perhaps via marriage) to Mrs. Smallridge and Mr. Suckling, with whom he once traveled to London (a distance of one hundred and twenty-five miles) and back twice in one week.

Mrs. Ford

Emma. She is the owner of Ford's, the principal woolen-draper, linen-draper, and haberdasher's shop in Highbury. The shop is patronized by everybody in the area, including Emma Woodhouse, Harriet Smith, Robert and Elizabeth Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Weston, Hetty Bates, Jane Fairfax, and Frank Churchill, who buys a pair of gloves at Ford's to earn his popularity in the neighborhood.

Mrs. Gilbert

Emma. She is a resident of Highbury, who attends the Coles' party and the ball at the Crown Inn. She is married to Mr. Gilbert, whose sister Miss Gilbert comes to visit them. Her neighbors believed Mrs. Gilbert might have danced at the Coles' party, if she had been asked, but at the Crown Inn, Mrs. Weston believes she has no intention of dancing and encourages Philip Elton to ask Harriet Smith instead, only for Mr. Elton to spurn her.

Mr. Graham

Emma. He is John Knightley's friend who intends to bring a bailiff from Scotland to look after his new estate. John tells his brother George about Graham's plans during his family's stay over the Christmas holiday, and when his sister-in-law Emma needs to hastily change the subject, she asks John whether it will be a good idea because "the old prejudice" might be too strong.

Mrs. Hodges

Emma. She is the housekeeper at Donwell Abbey. She complains when George Knightley gives the last of his apples to the Bates family, and she later becomes a target for Philip and Augusta Elton's quarrelsomeness because Knightley will not allow Mrs. Elton to order her around and she fails to give their housekeeper Wright a recipe she promised. Knightley says Mrs. Hodges thinks she is clever.

Clara Jeffreys

Emma. She is a relative of Mrs. Partridge, the woman with whom Augusta Elton resided when in Bath. She is one of Augusta's many married friends who gave up music after her marriage.

William Larkins

Emma. He is the steward of Donwell Abbey. He thinks more of George Knightley's profit than anything, and he is pleased that he has sold so many apples this year and does not care if Mrs. Hodges is upset when Knightley orders him to bring the last bushel to the Bates family, rather than keep it for himself.
When Knightley becomes engaged to Emma Woodhouse, Larkins complains to Philip Elton that he cannot see or speak his master. Emma teases Knightley about his dependence on Larkins and says he will need to ask Larkins's consent to move to Hartfield.

Miss Nash

Emma. She is the head teacher at Mrs. Goddard's school. Her sister is married to a linen-draper, and she thinks her very well-married, but Emma Woodhouse thinks any marriage would be a good marriage in the eyes of a teacher at a school. Miss Nash dines with Mrs. Goddard, Miss Richardson, and Miss Prince when Mrs. Martin sends Mrs. Goddard a goose.

Mr. Otway

Emma. Resident of Highbury.

Mrs. Partridge

Emma. Introduced Mrs. Augusta Elton in bath to Mr. Elton.

Smallridge family

Emma. The family that Jane Fairfax is almost a governess for.

Mr. Wingfield

Emma. He is an apothecary in London, who tends to the John Knightleys in Brunswick Square. Isabella Knightley is as fond of him as her father is of Mr. Perry.

Lady Alicia and Mrs. Frankland

Persuasion. They are acquaintances of Lady Russell and the Elliots in Bath. Lady Alicia and Mrs. Frankland tell Lady Russell about the curtains in a house on Pulteney Street, and later,

Miss Atkinson

Persuasion. She dined at Colonel Wallis and Mrs. Wallis's lodgings in Marlborough Buildings, where she met William Elliot, and she thinks he is the most agreeable man she ever was in company with. She is acquainted with the women in Captain Wentworth's party when he is walking in Milsom Street.

Admiral Baldwin

Persuasion. He is a naval officer whom Sir Walter Elliot was in company with last spring in London. Sir Walter believed he was past sixty because of his tan, wrinkles, and gray hair, but his friend Sir Basil Morley informed him he was actually only forty.

Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple

Persuasion. She is called Lady Dalrymple (surname Carteret), is a character in Persuasion. She has one daughter, the honourable Miss Carteret. She is related to Sir Walter Elliot by marriage[1].

Mr. Hayter

Persuasion. He is a minor character in Persuasion. He is married to Mrs. Hayter, Mrs. Musgrove's sister. His eldest son and heir, Charles, is a scholar and a gentleman. He has at least two other daughters, known collectively as the "Miss Hayters"[1].

Mrs. Rooke

Persuasion. She is the nurse for Mrs. Smith. She taught her how to knit and also spread the gossip that Anne was engaged to Mr. Elliot when she wasn't.

James Stevenson, Esq.

Persuasion. Elizabeth, Anne, and Mary's maternal grandfather

Colonel and Mrs. Wallis

Persuasion. friends (kind of) of Sir Walter Elliot and Elizabeth Elliot. They are staying in Bath as well.

Edward Wentworth

Persuasion. Brother of Captain Wentworth and Mrs. Croft.

Mr. Campbell (MP)

He is the surgeon of the Thrush. He is a very well-behaved young man, who came to call for his friend William Price on the day he arrived back in Portsmouth. The Thrush soon sets sail, with Mr. Campbell, William, and his brother Sam abroad.

The Frasers

Mansfield Park. The friends that Mary Crawford goes to stay with after she leaves Mansfield Park.

Mr. Harding

Mansfield Park. He is an old and particular friend of Sir Thomas Bertram, who writes to warn him about the intimacy between Maria Rushworth and Henry Crawford, which is causing gossip and making her husband James Rushworth uneasy. He wants Sir Thomas to come to London and use his influence over his daughter to put an end to the relationship, but before he can, Mr. Harding writes again to say that Mrs. Rushworth has left her husband's house and Rushworth has come to Mr. Harding for advice. He eventually decides to divorce Maria.

Miss Lee

MP. She is a minor character in Mansfield Park. She was employed by Sir Thomas Bertram as a governess for his two daughters, Maria and Julia[1]. Later, she also took on Fanny Price, Sir Thomas's impoverished niece.

Charles Maddox

MP. He is considered for a role in Lovers' Vows when Edmund Bertram initially refuses to participate

Miss Sneyd

MP. Miss Sneyd and her sister, Miss Augusta, are mentioned when Mary Crawford asks about whether or not Fanny Price is out in society or not. Tom Bertram talks about how he got in trouble with Miss Sneyd when he talked to the young lady's sister—who was not yet out—instead of her. Miss Sneyd considered this to be a major faux pas.

Mrs. Whitaker

MP. She is the housekeeper at Sotherton Court.

Miss Andrews

NA. Friend of Isabella Thorpe who is never in the book but is described as sweet and a fan of gothic novels.

Mr. Drummond

NA. He is the maternal grandfather of the Tilney siblings, Frederick, Henry, and Eleanor.

Mrs. Hughes

NA. She is a companion of Eleanor Tilney's. She knew the late Mrs. Tilney, as they were schoolfellows together. She regaled quite a bit of the Tilney family history to Mrs. Allen while in the pump-room.

Dr. Skinner

NA. Neighbor of the Allens at Bath.