Pavlova's Bitches

by oosh

Dramatis Personae

[Several readers have written to ask if I would provide a list of the
characters, as they find it easy to become confused. So do I.  So I compiled
a list of my own. Here it is.]

Schoolgirls

 Miss Lucy Carter
  Good at maths, dyslexic and morbidly aware of her unusual appearance

 Miss Felicity Shipman
  Clever, cheerful and scheming

 Miss Carry Walmsley
  More properly, Lady Caroline Artemis Gloriana Walmsley
  Head Girl and head of the school battledore team
  In love with Miss Paulson

 Miss Sarah Clark
  Friend of Penrose and Shipman

 Miss Victoria Penrose
  Friend of Clark, easily manipulated by Shipman

 Miss Prudence Miller
  Bookish and poetic; scribe of the Scientific Society

 Miss Kershaw
  Prefect; member of battledore team

 Miss Charlotte Benson
  Senior Prefect

 Miss Emma Denning
  Member of battledore team

 Miss Abigail French

 Miss Margaret Smythe
  Member of battledore team

 Miss Isadora Parkinson
  Fifth-former, suffers from menorrhagia

Staff

 Miss Georgina Anne Paulson
  Teaches French, Politics, Philosophy and Science. Loves Carry.

 Mrs Cunningham
  Head Mistress

 Miss Hanson
  Secretary to Head Mistress

 Mrs Probert
  Maths Teacher

 Mrs Bateson
  English Teacher

 Miss Gurney
  Sports

 Dr Straker
  School Doctor

 Matron

 Caretaker
  Has a wizened assistant named Ben.

 Ostler

Duchy of Grantshire

 Alfred Augustus George Walmsley, Fourth Duke
  Father of Carry; always short of money; school governor

 Aurelia Margaret Lysistrata Walmsley
  Wife of the above and mother of Carry; school governor

 Mrs Clarice Crichton
  Governess to Carry, and now secretary to the Duchess

 Annie and Liza
  Servants, known as "the twins"

 Jemmy
  An inexperienced maidservant

 Neville
  Carry's stallion

The Carter household

 Mrs Joanna Carter
  Lucy's mother

 Mr Henry Carter
  Lucy's father; works for Carragher's

 Miss Elsie Carter (deceased)
  Lucy's elder sister

 Simpson
  Servant to the Carter household

The Shipman household

 George & Frederick Shipman
  Felicity's younger brothers

Others

 Mr Jepson
  Clockmaker

 Philip Jepson
  Son of the above

 Mrs Katherine Fearnley
  Friend of the duchess

 Mr Josiah Fearnley
  Lawyer; friend of the duke

 Mr Charles Matson
  Scientist; friend of Mr Fearnley

 Harry and Sam
  Delivery men

 Rory
  One of Harry's horses