Characters of Of Human Bondage

i. Albert Price: Brother of Fenny Price. He had some similarity of Fanny’s appearance. He didn’t like Fanny’s stay at France and advised her to come back to London. At Fanny’s death he came to France unwillingly and he didn’t look sorry.
ii. Miss Alice Antonia: She was a well known socio-economic accustomed to be of friendly terms on gallery boys of provincial musical halls.
iii. Mr. Albert Nixon: He was a family solicitor who advised Philip to try and become a chattered accountant.
iv. Anna: The younger daughter of professor Erlin. She was tall and plain and had a pleasant voice and always made her useful.
v. Thorpe Athenly: He was a patient of Philip suffering from jaundice, when they first met. He was forty-eight years old. He was a tall man who took many professions in life including a job in a tree-plantation project in Ceylon, traveler in America for Italian wine, secretary ship of a water company in Toledo and also a journalist; editor and sub-editor of some newspapers. Now he has settles as a press representative of a big company named linen-drapers. He reminded Philip a good deal of Cornshaw.
vi. Athelstan: He was the son of Athenly.
vii. Mr. Barker: He married a cousin of Mr. Athenly.
viii. Bell: Philip’s co-worker in linen-draper. He was a cheerful youth of sixteen.
ix. Miss Bennett: Miss Bennett was a woman of massive proportions with a very large red face heavily powdered and a bust of imposing dimensions. She did her best to make people at home; she slapped them at their shoulders and laughed a great deal. She loved dancing and poetry better than anything in the world, though she was quite slow to dance.
x. Betty/Miss Athenly: She was the mother of nine children of Athenly though they were not married. She used to work in Athenly’s wives house. She was a large woman, at least three inches high from her husband. Bearing of many children made her fatty. She spent her youth near just near Baclstable, in a village named Ferne. She was a cheerful mother with hospitality and good humour.
xi. Mrs. Black: Mrs. Black had a cottage where she combined the office of postmistress along with that of universal provider.
xii. Fraulein Cacilie: She was a pretty young woman living in professor Erlin’s house. She once thought Philip was in love with her. Finally we find her secretly leaving with the Chinese man Herr Sung.
xiii. Mr. Cameren: He was the teacher of anatomy at St. Luke’s medical school. He also lectured to the students of Royal Academy.
xiv. Mrs. Carey/Helen: Philip’s mother a beautiful but penniless orphan whom Henry Carey married. She died in Philip’s childhood.
xv. Chandler: Chandler was the senior obstetric clerk at St. Luke’s medical school. He was a tall man of few words, with a long nose and a thin face much lined for his age.
xvi. Mr. Clutton: A young talented painter whom Philip met in Paris. He had a group of painter who shared their ideas and criticized each other’s work. But soon Clutton formed his new idea that an artist has nothing to do with critics. So he left his friends and went away. When he returns he quarrels with most of his friends, shows his work to no one and remains almost penniless. He was supposed to be genius or mad.
xvii. Connie: She was the daughter of Athenly.
xviii. Cornshaw: He was a poet living in France. He helped Philip to formulate his view during his stay in Paris. He was very fond of cricket. He changed his view about the surroundings by saying; there is no absolute morality and made Philip realize that life is only meaningless. He died coming in England at Philip’s apartment. His life seemed to have nothing except to give a pushing journalist an occasion to write an article in a review. But still he represented man’s struggle for intellect, a life very difficult to follow.
xix. Doctor Deacon: The old doctor who treated Philip when he was on London.
xx. Mr. Donaldson: He was an electric engineer who wanted to marry Sally. He was good looking and an eligible man.
xxi. Monsieur Ducroz: He taught Philip French during his stay at Heidelberg. He spoke very few words and was punctual more than necessary. He had been expelled from Geneva for some political offence. Philip felt sorry for his miserable life e led in old age.
xxii. Dunsford: Philip’s fist friend during his stay at medical school. He was a fresh complexioned man from Clifton. Philip used to go to tea and to music hall, gallery or theatre with him. He used to fall in love with beautiful waitresses in the coffee shops.
xxiii. Aunt Elizabeth: She was an aunt of Mrs. Athenly and was quite popular among the Anthenly children though they have never seen. They teased their elder sister Sally by saying that she would be as fat as her.
xxiv. Frau Professor Erlin: She was a short stout woman with a red face and an effusive manner. Philip stayed in their house for thirty marks during his stay at Heidelberg. She used to teach Philip German and Latin.
xxv. Edward: He was the son of Athenly.
xxvi. Emil: Was the servant of professor Erlin’s house.
xxvii. Emma: The maidservant who worked for Mrs. Carey.
xxviii. Erlin: He was a boy of fourteen who was clubfooted. He came to the medical school for treatment. He was jolly and talkative and was not shy at all. Philip felt that the boy had no humiliation that he felt in his boyhood.
xxix. Miss Fanny Price: The woman whom Philip met in Paris. She was trying hard to become a painter and knew all the basics. But unfortunately she could not draw well. She helped Philip much at the beginning. No one liked her for her high temper and rough behaviour. Philip was her only friend and she had a very soft corner for Philip. She was very industrious and her devotion for art cannot be described in words. She struggled with extreme poverty for the sake of art; at last the poor woman gave away to poverty and committed suicide due to starving.
xxx. Mr. Flanagan: He was an American who came to France to learn painting. He had a jolly face and a laughing mouth, thought himself a scattered brain person of the world, and also had a tenderness of heart, which was unexpected and charming. But afterwards we find that he gave away painting and was making a good money in popper’s business.
xxxi. Dr. Fleming: Dr. Fleming was the headmaster of the King’s school at Tercenbury for about a quarter of a century who received six hundred pounds of pension a year. He chose Mr. Perkins as the new headmaster of the school.
xxxii. Mrs. Fletcher: She was the woman who sold sandwiches to the workers. She was a kind-hearted woman who often landed sandwiches at debt at the ending of the month. She was very funny and the workers liked her a good deal.
xxxiii. Mrs. Fletcher (in Ivy Lane): She was an old patient of Dr. South whom he treated since her birth.
xxxiv. Mr. Fointer: Mr. Fointer was their drawing instructor. We come to know he was not pleased with his second rated painter life and suggested Philip to leave the profession if he had any other option.
xxxv. Fraulein Forster: She was a Dutch spinster of masculine appearance. She lived by the pension and was a permanent customer.
xxxvi. Mrs. Foster: The kind housekeeper of William Carey who looked after Mr. Carey with a great deal of care till he died.
xxxvii. Madame Foyot: The mother of the girls whom Miss Wilkinson educated at France.
xxxviii. George: He was a Swiss and worked as a writer. Cornshaw shared his room while he came in England.
xxxix. Mr. Gladstone: The then Prime minister of England.
xl. Mr. Gibbons: He was a middle-aged man; he had brisk movement and a clever face. Philip appeared at the first interview of his life to him and was refused.
xli. Mr. Goodworthy: He was the manager of the accountant farm. He was a man of short length and had a large head.
xlii. Rev. B. B. Gordon: Mr. Gordon never possessed the qualities of a master. He was impatient and choleric. He had a sandy hair and a bristly moustache. His eyes were red and the students among teachers feared him most.
xliii. Griffith/Harry: Griffith lived on the top stairs of Philip’s room while he was a medical student. There was peculiar charm in his manners. A mingling of gravity and kindness that was infinitely attractive. They didn’t have much intimacy. It grew after a long while when Griffith took good care of Philip when he was ill. Everybody liked him for his jolly nature. He had a very good relation with Philip, which came to an end when Griffith fell in love with Mildred.
xliv. Gwennie: She was a middle-aged woman came with her mother to enjoy summer vacation. They claimed they had a nice house in London and they were not used to such places.
xlv. Mrs. Harding: She was a woman who took Mildred’s child for seven shilling a year. She was a stout elderly woman lived in a small but clean and tidy house. Her husband was an old curate who earned very little. To Philip, she looked kind.
xlvi. Miss Graves: Sister of Mr. Graves who kept house for him. She was the secretary of maternity club, which provided pregnant poor with flannel, baby linen, coals and five shillings.
xlvii. Herb: He was the husband of one of Philip’s patients. He was a recently married young man who earned a great deal of money. He and his wife were very happy with their family and the newborn baby they had. He was a nonunion man and used to be a football player before he got married. All these made him an interesting character.
xlviii. Harris: Philip’s co-worker in linen draper. He was a tall thin young man with a hooked nose and a pasty face.
xlix. Harry: He was aged only eighteen; was married and earned sixteen shillings a week. Poverty was nothing unexpected to him. He and his wife were completely alone and knew no one at that place.
l. Hayward: He came to the professor’s house two months after the arrival of Philip. He was a man of twenty-six and thought himself a poet. Philip seemed to have a great influence of him. At least, his literary sense attracted Philip though later it was found his sense was not as sharp as he used to express. Philip had a long lasting relation with him. He volunteered as a soldier in the war and died of enteric after reaching the war field.
li. Helen: Mr. Watson’s wife, a dark woman with black hair. She had thick lips and a small nose. Her eyes were large and black. There was a singular coldness in her appearance. She seldom spoke and more seldom smiled.
lii. Fraulein Hedwig: She was a pretty young woman who lived in professor Erlin’s house. She loved a lieutenant but her parents did not like the boy. But afterwards she managed to marry him.
liii. Harold: He was the son of Ahtenly.
liv. Herr Sung: Herr Sung was the Chinaman who took two rooms on the ground floor from professor Erlin. He was a good customer. He ate a bottle of moselle at each meal from which professor Erlin made a good profit. He had a love affair with Frailein Cacilie.
lv. Henry Carey: Father of Philip and a well-reputed surgeon. He was a kind-hearted man but died a premature death.
lvi. Mr. Herbert Carter: Mr. Herbert Carter owned the accountant farm in London. He looked like a military man with his appearance and wearing. He was fond of games and thought of the good of the country. He went to France with Mr. Goodworthy for the first time for some business affairs.
lvii. Mrs. Hodges: She was a little woman of forty-five working at linen-drapers. She left her barrister husband and decided to live an independent life. She had the habit of calling everyone dear.
lviii. Hunter: The boy with who rose made friendship while Philip was absent.
lix. Mr. Jacobs: He was the surgeon under whom Philip had dressed. He made an operation on Philip’s clubfoot.
lx. Jane/Maria Del Pilar: She was the third daughter of Athenly. Her nickname was pudding face.
lxi. Miss Jewell: She worked in linen-draper and was about to marry a doctor.
lxii. Joseph: He was a son of Levi who sold jewel in Holborn. He once made an offer of marriage to Sally.
lxiii. Mr. Josiah Graves: The manager, choirmaster and treasurer of the bank as well as a churchwarden. He was a tall, thin man with a swallow face, a long nose and white hair. He was involved in politics and liked being a clergyman.
lxiv. Mr. Kingsford: He was a man of forty, clean shaved and had long hair neatly pressed down. He was a man of more than average height large shouldered. He was the editor of one of Harm Worth’s magazines.