Georgia's Lesson by
Ali Murphy

Real historical figures in italics.

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Characters who appear in other New Women of Mayfair novels feature in parentheses. 

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• Georgia Burrows, 23 year old Cumbrian teacher, suffragist and socialist, forced to seek work in Kensington

• Lydia Hughes, headmistress of Kensington School for Girls, employer of Georgia Burrows, and older sister to Jacob’s late fiancee, Flora.

• Sarah Hardcastle, headmistress of House of Education in Ambleside, Georgia’s former employer (the House of Education is now known as Charlotte Mason House, and is very much real - Sarah Hardcastle is fictional)

• Lord Jacob Worthing, 29 year old London aesthete

• Graham DeLacey, Jacob’s brother-in-law, husband of half-sister Lucretia

• Lucretia DeLacey, the older of Jacob’s two half-sisters

• Daphne DeLacey, the younger of Jacob’s half-sisters

• Lady Miranda Worthing, Jacob’s stepmother

• Earl Worthing, Jacob’s father, husband to Miranda, father of Jacob, Lucretia and Daphne

• Bambrough aka Temperance Bambi - friend of Jacob’s (Isabella’s Mission)

• Timpson, Jacob’s valet, footman and butler

• Margaret Scuttlebutt, scholarship pupil at Kensington School for Girls

• Stevens, butler at 10 Berkeley Square (Isabella’s Mission)

• Cordelia Donoghue, nee Braithwaite (Isabella’s Mission, Eleanor’s Gamble)

• Percy Braithwaite, husband to Isabella, brother to Cordelia, best friend to Jacob (Isabella’s Mission, Eleanor’s Gamble)

• Lady Florence Dixie (Isabella’s Mission, Eleanor’s Gamble)

• Arabella Hoxton, society lady (Eleanor’s Gamble)

• Geraldine Fitzpatrick, society lady (Eleanor’s Gamble)

• Sir William Broadbent, physician to Queen Victoria, and the Worthing family 

• Nettie Honeyball, women’s football legend (Isabella’s Mission)

• Brian Mayhew, journalist fot the People’s Banner 

• Mrs Charlotte Despard, suffragist and social worker

• Angela, unmarried mother in Notting Dale

• Gilbert Harrington, MP for Penrith, ambitious member of the Anti-Socialism Committee

• Mary Neal, socialist, suffragist, Morris Dancing revivalist and co-founder of the Esperance Club (Eleanor’s Gamble)

• Ursula Underwood, Esperance girl

• Amelia Longley, Esperance girl (Eleanor’s Gamble)

• Barbara, Esperance girl

• Aretas Akers-Douglas, Chief Whip to Lord Salisbury’s governments

• Harry Hyndman, advocate of Marx, founder of Social Democratic Federation, prominent English socialist 

• Agnes MacKenzie, suffragist (Isabella’s Mission, Eleanor’s Gamble)

• Trott, Jacob Worthing’s agent at the Bedworth colliery

• Ariel Andrews, labour agitator at Bedworth

• Mr Burrows, Georgia’s father

• Rose Burrows, Georgia’s younger sister

• Stephen Perkins, Caldbeck farmer, former admirer of Georgia, fiancee of Rose

• Pomphrey, Kensington drinker

• Mulcaster, unloved school aquaintance of Jacob (Isabella’s Mission, Eleanor’s Gamble)

• Earl of Wemyss (fanatical anti-Socialist peer)

• Marquis of Stratford upon Avon (entirely fictional!)

• Arthur Balfour, anti-socialist Tory MP, nephew of Lord Salisbury, later Prime Minster and Foreign Secretary himself 

• George Makins, Pastor of methodist church, Caldbeck

• Edward Carson, barrister, (in)famous for prosecuting Oscar Wilde, Also a promient politician, especially on Anglo-Irish affairs

• Chaffanbrass, barrister (“borrowed” from Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Finn novels)

• Judge Bullingham (“borrowed” from John Mortimer’s Rumpole stories)​​