LovelĪ London fop and member of Lord Orville's social circle. His behavior towards her is excessive and unacceptable, both to her and hopefully to the reader, as it is motivated by lust and not respect. While he does possess some charm and conversational charm, he is foppish, superficial, and obnoxious. After meeting her at an assembly and torturing her when she declines to dance, he continues to create situations to be around her. Sir Clement Willoughby is an English baronet who pursues Evelina relentlessly and tastelessly throughout the novel. He also reveals a disinterest in family history by proposing to her. He admires Evelina's beauty and sweetness, and takes pains to protect her in vexing situations.

Lord Orville stands in sharp contrast to the other men of the novel he is well-mannered, polite, virtuous, protective, sensible, rational, and respectful. Lord OrvilleĪ young aristocrat who first meets Evelina at a London assembly and pursues her throughout the novel. Evelina can barely stand his presence, and writes often of his embarrassing behavior. He hates foreigners and fops, and delights in torturing Madame Duval and Mr. He is incredibly vulgar, coarse, cruel, intolerant, and malicious. At novel's opening, he has been away at sea for seven years. She is referred to primarily as Miss Mirvan in the novel. Mirvan, she is Evelina's age and her closest female friend. She ignores her husband's gross behavior. The wife of Captain Mirvan and the mother of Maria Mirvan. It is Lady Howard who helps introduce Evelina into society by inviting her to Howard Grove and then to London with her family. Lady Howard resides at Howard Grove, and is an old friend of Mr. He ultimately approves of her decisions once the obstacles to her happiness fade away.

He counsels and advises her about the dangerous behavior she observes in others. Villars is very traditional, and fears that innocent Evelina's entry into fashionable London society will bring disaster. He was her mother's guardian, and was present at Evelina's birth. Reverend Arthur Villars is Evelina's guardian. Though she is by birth a Belmont (daughter of Sir John Belmont), she uses her mother's family name of Anville. She is ultimately able to emerge relatively unscathed from her London adventures, and ends up with a good husband. She is also, however, intelligent and intuitive, and is thus able to identify vice and ill-breeding. Evelina is seventeen years old, virtuous, sweet, innocent, and ignorant of the ways of the fashionable society that she is entering.

Evelina by Frances Burney