Minor Characters
Hester Pinhorn
The servant who is present in Count Fosco’s house when the woman she believes to be Laura Fairlie, but who is really Anne Catherick, dies from heart disease.
Jane Gould
The civil servant who attends the body of Laura Fairlie, which is actually Anne Catherick.
Mr. Goodricke
Mr. Goodricke is the doctor who goes to Count Fosco’s house when a woman, whom he believes to be Laura Fairlie, but who is really Anne Catherick, dies from heart failure.
Fanny
A servant girl at Blackwater whom Marian gives letters to carry to Mr. Fairlie, which beg him to help Laura and Marian, who are trapped at Blackwater with the scheming Count Fosco and his accomplice, Sir Percival Glyde.
Mr. Philip Fairlie
The deceased father of Laura Fairlie and Anne Catherick and the stepfather of Marian Halcombe. Mr. Philip Fairlie was Mrs. Catherick’s lover before he was married, hence his relation to Anne, and Mrs. Catherick still remembers him fondly.
Monsieur Rubelle
Mrs. Rubelle’s husband and a foreign spy.
Mr. Catherick
Mrs. Catherick’s husband who leaves her because he suspects her of having an affair with Sir Percival Glyde.
John Owen
The man who owns the cab firm which Count Fosco used to transport Laura Fairlie from the train station in London to the place he hid her before taking her to the asylum.
Mrs. Todd
The woman who lives at Todd’s Corner in Limmeridge, where Anne Catherick and Mrs. Clements stay on their visit there.
Major Donthorne
The owner of Varneck Hall, which is where Mrs. Catherick worked as a maid in her youth, and where Mr. Philip Fairlie, Laura and Anne’s father, met and seduced her.
Louis
The poorly treated foreign servant of Mr. Fairlie.
Mrs. Hartright
The mother of Walter Hartright and Sarah.
Sarah
Walter Hartright’s sister and Mrs. Hartright’s daughter.