Inside the story
Meet Lucy Honeychurch
Lucy Honeychurch is a young Englishwoman from Surrey traveling in Florence under the care of her chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. A gifted, impulsive pianist, she feels the pull of the passionate life awakened by the Emersons while respectable conventions shape her engagement and her conversations.
On the page
A girl of about twenty, slender and youthful, with an earnest, mobile face that lights up when she plays the piano; dressed in the muslin summer frocks and travelling clothes of an Edwardian gentlewoman. Compared by Cecil to a Leonardo painting.
