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Catharine Alan: character portrait from A Room with a View (Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan))

A character in A Room with a View

Catharine Alan

A Room with a View by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)

One of the two timid, proper elderly Miss Alan sisters at the Pension Bertolini who stand for good breeding and are scandalized by the Emersons, later planning a genteel tour of Greece.

Also known as: Miss Alan, the Miss Alans

Inside the story

Meet Catharine Alan

Miss Alan is one of two timid, proper elderly sisters staying at the Pension Bertolini in Florence. She and her sister value good breeding and are scandalized by the Emersons, whose unconventional behavior disrupts the pension’s social order.

On the page

A small, genteel elderly spinster with shawls hung over the back of her chair, dressed with prim old-fashioned decorum.

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