Inside the story
Meet Charlotte Bartlett
Charlotte Bartlett is Lucy Honeychurch’s older, poor cousin and anxious, fussy chaperone. Traveling with Lucy in Florence, she watches over her younger relative and tries to preserve the standards of respectability that guide their conduct and social relationships.
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A middle-aged genteel spinster with a long, narrow head that drives backwards and forwards when agitated; primly and modestly dressed in the travelling clothes of a shabby-genteel lady.
