Characters from A Room of One's Own

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Jane Austen - Author of Pride and Prejudice, who grew up in, and wrote about, rural middle-class England.

Beadle - An employee of a British university who ensures that protocols are upheld. In Woolf's story, this character asks her to get off the campus lawn.

Mary Beton - One of the fictional characters in Woolf's story who leaves the narrator an inheritance with which she enjoys freedom to write. This name is also used for other characters in the story, in keeping with Woolf's assertion that readers can call her "by any name...
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