Blithe Spirit characters

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A successful novelist who invites a medium to his Kent home so that he can observe her methods for a new book. Urbane and skeptical, he treats the séance as research until it brings his first wife back into his life.

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Charles's practical second wife and mistress of the Condomine household. She shares his amusement at the planned séance but becomes concerned when his behavior suggests that something occurred which she cannot perceive.

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Charles's mischievous and self-possessed first wife, dead for seven years. The séance summons her as a ghost whom Charles can see and hear, although the others initially cannot.

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An eccentric local medium invited to conduct the Condomines' séance. Energetic, sincere, and confident in her spirit guide, she is unaware at first that her performance has produced a result after the other guests see nothing unusual.

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A doctor and friend of the Condomines who attends the séance with his wife. He approaches the evening as an entertaining social experiment rather than as evidence of the supernatural.

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Dr Bradman's wife and another guest at the séance. Curious and socially eager, she is more readily impressed by Madame Arcati's claims than her husband is.

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The Condomines' new maid, whose anxious enthusiasm sends her rushing through the house and repeatedly tests Ruth's patience. Her presence proves more important to the supernatural disturbance than anyone initially suspects.