Edgar Allan Poe Audiobook Collection 8: Ligeia/Eleonora characters

Appears from the start

A widower recalling his first wife through grief and opium-clouded memory. He reveres Ligeia's learning and force of will, while admitting that he never knew her family history and cannot remember how their acquaintance began.

Appears from the start

The narrator's first wife, remembered for extraordinary intelligence, dark beauty, and a commanding presence. Her intense study and fierce resistance to mortality dominate his memories of their marriage.

Also known as Lady Rowena Trevanion of Tremaine

Appears from the start

The narrator's fair-haired second wife, the daughter of an English family. She enters a loveless marriage and lives with him in an oppressively decorated chamber within a remote abbey.

First appears in chapter 2

An unnamed man who looks back on a secluded youth spent in an idyllic valley with his aunt and cousin. He presents himself as prone to intense imagination but clear about the events surrounding Eleonora.

First appears in chapter 2

The narrator's cousin and childhood companion in the secluded Valley of the Many-Colored Grass. Gentle and innocent, she shares his isolated world until their close affection develops into romantic love.

First appears in chapter 2

Eleonora's mother, who lives with Eleonora and the narrator in their remote valley. She is the only other person in the small, self-contained household of their youth.

First appears in chapter 2

A woman the narrator meets after leaving the valley for a crowded royal city. Her presence awakens a new love despite the solemn promise he once made to Eleonora.