✔️Stone Angel Proper Nouns

Bernini

Italian sculptor and architect of the Baroque period in Italy. Hagar says the stone angel must have been carved by cynical descendants of Bernini.

Regina Weese

Name on a gravestone Hagar and the others laughed at because of its rhyming inscription. Died then lived again for ten years, then died.

Hagar Currie-Shipley

The protagonist of The Stone Angel, cynical and surly elderly woman who reminisces on her childhood whilst enduring old age.

Prissy Pippa

Who Hagar referred to her young self as because of her inclination to be neat and orderly.

Marvin Shipley

Hagar's first-born son who is addicted to watching television.

Manawaka Cemetery

The location in which the Stone Angel resides.

Doris Shipley

Marvin's wife who cooks, cleans, and cares for the elderly Hagar. She is a pain to Hagar.

Jason Currie

Hagar's father. A self-made man who descended from a cushion of wealth and left his father when he was seventeen. Ran a store. A proud, abusive widow.

Dolly Stonehouse

"Auntie", she is The Curries' hired help who was a widow and been with Hagar since birth. Fancies Jason, but never has a chance. Dan was her favourite.

Reuben Pearl

The milk man.

Matt Currie

Hagar's eldest brother, wore glasses, threatened Hagar often.

Dan Currie

Hagar's other brother, four years older, peed the bed, fell into a hole in the ice when impressing girls, his clothes froze, and he was always was sickly and died of pneumonia.

Hannah Pearl

Henry's mother whose baby was stillborn and died, having a casket in the Simmons funeral home.

Mrs. McVitie

The lawyer's wife. Spoke to Jason the day he hit Hagar.

Charlotte Tappen

Hagar's childhood best friend, the doctor's daughter.

Lottie Drieser

A social outcast when she is growing up, determined to marry well and acquire social status. Her dad is unknown whilst her mother is promiscuous. Crushes baby chicks. Marries Telford Simmons.

Telford Simmons

Son of Billie Simmons, who is a drunkard that runs the funeral parlor. Sneaks Hagar and others into the parlor to see a dead baby. A bank manager. Curly hair and a slight stammer, bragged about corpses. Marries Lottie Drieser.

Billy Simmons

Telford's father. Kept the funeral parlor but spent his money on alcohol. Hagar used to think he was a ghoul that drank embalming fluid.

Henry Pearl

Hannah's son who had a baby sister that died. Would be picked on by the others for being a sissy. Big, gawky, and worked on his family's farm.

Sir Daniel Currie

Jason's father; Hagar's grandfather. A portrait of him hung in the dining room. Died before Hagar was born. His title was not a baronetcy. A silk importer, served in India, and lost nearly everything to his partner who cheated him because he was too trusting.

Highlanders

an inhabitant of the Highlands of Scotland

Clanranald MacDonalds

The clan the Curries were sept of.

Reverend Dougall MacCuloch

The Reverend of the new Presbyterian church that went up when Hagar was eight. Called the names of people who donated money like an honor roll.

Luke McVitie

Lawyer and husband to Mrs. McVitie, first called for church donations.

Freeman McKendrick

Bank manager, called by the Reverend for church donations

Burns MacIntosh and Rab Fraser

Farmers, called by the Reverend for church donations.

Wachakwa

A river that ran through the town of Manawaka past the cemetery.

Jules Tonnerre

"Half-breed" that is Matt's friend who wishes to hunt. His chicken won against Matt's.

Galloping Mountain

Where sixteen-year-old Matt wanted to go with Jules to set winter traplines up (hunting).

Queen Victoria Hotel

Where Charlie Bean sat on the steps as Bram drives pregnant Hagar into town.

Doherty

Old man who sold a fighting chicken to Matt and owned the ice rink.

Livery

The stable Doherty owns

Floss Drieser

Lottie's aunt, dress maker, took Lottie in when her mother died at age 12.

Brampton Shipley

A rugged, ill-mannered man Hagar marries in an act of rebellion against her father. He is financially unstable and picks up money-making hobbies that breed little profit. Dies by alcoholism.

Tina Shipley

Hagar's granddaughter, Marvin's daughter. Held in high esteem and cared for Hagar before she moves away. Gifted Hagar Lily of the Valley cologne.

Mr. Troy

The minister who speaks with old Hagar in hopes of praying for her and opening her up to entering the nursing home.

John Shipley

Hagar's prized younger son who is a trouble-maker and dies.

Morag MacCulloch

The minster's daughter back in young Hagar's time who was a school teacher—Hagar brings her up to convince her father to let her teach.

Dougall MacCulloch

The minister/reverend back in young Hagar's time who Jason viewed as beneath him. Passes away by heart attack.

Clara Shipley

Brampton's late wife who used to live east with him before she died.

Percherons

Draft horses that Bram claims he is getting in the fall from Reuben Pearl when he dances with Hagar.

Reuben Pearl

Owner of the Livery stable—sells horses.

Mavis McVitie

Matt's widowed wife who never had children with him because he too had trauma from his father. A year after Matt's death, she married Alden Crates, lives on a farm, and births three children.

Gladys Shipley

Bram's daughter from Clara. Her two sons were in the army and served in the First War.

Jess Shipley

Bram's daughter from Clara. Puts Hagar up to secretly selling her eggs for pocket change.

Silverthreads

The name of the nursing home in the advert Marvin and Doris want to send Hagar to.

Alden Crates

The man Mavis married after Matt dies from influenza.

Jill

Hagar's next door neighbour who Doris says will come and check on her when they are gone to a movie.

Currie Memorial Park

The place that is created after Jason's death with his money instead of it being given to Hagar.

Corby

Old Hagar's doctor.

Holman Hunt

Artist of a picture Hagar admires of a knight and swooning lady but then drops and breaks the image in fury.

Rosa Bonheur

Artist of The Horse Fair, an image Hagar keeps in her room that Bram never cared for because Hagar disliked living horses but hung fake ones.

Red Fife

the most popular variety of wheat

Soldier

Bram's prized stallion that gets out during a winter storm in search for a black mare but then dies after being stuck in a wire fence and freezing. Symbolizes Bram, whilst the mare symbolizes Hagar.

Hippocrates

Father of modern medicine

Tappen

Young Hagar's doctor at the new Manawaka hospital she gives birth at. Charlotte's father.

Simlow

Name of the ladies' wear shop.

Charlie Bean

A half-breed and Brampton's friend/drinking buddy.

Thorlakson

Woman in the nursing home who feels poorly and is coddled by the nurses—leaves Mrs. Tyrrwhitt furious at the special treatment.

Mrs. Steiner

The heavy-built woman Hagar instantly likes who she lies to about her son and is shown photographs of the woman's own family.

Miss Tyrrwhitt

Complains to Hagar about Mrs. Thorlakson and the special treatment she gets from nurses.

Ben

Mrs. Steiner's son and lives in a very small apartment.

Esther

Mrs. Steiner's glamorous and somewhat insincere daughter-in-law.

Rita

Mrs. Steiner's loving daughter.

Lynne

Mrs. Steiner's doll-like granddaughter.

Moishe

Mrs. Steiner's smart, dark-eyed grandson.

Tutankhamen

A pharaoh, or king of Egypt.

Nelly Gray

Name of someone in a song both Bram and Charlie sing.

Mountie

a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, gives Bram a warning for relieving himself on the steps of the Currie store.

Chopin

A polish composer and pianist

Eatons & The Hudson's Bay

Canadian department stores

Jess Vernon

Their son goes to the First War along with Marvin, Henry Pearl's son, and Gladys's two boys

Pibroch

John's horse.

Bull Durham

an old brand of tobacco products; cigarettes

Mr. Cooper

The new owner of the Currie general store who doesn't change the name to keep its trade.