19-Early 40s female; narrator and heroine of the story. Beautiful and intense. In her youth was known as “wild betsy” Was wild and fiery in her early 20s and after the loss of her husband, home and ...

Mid 40s female in the late 1700s. A bit nosy, stuffy and gossipy. Feels for her little niece Elizabeth after the death of her mother and can’t help but feel exasperated at Elizabeth’s father for being ...