The Blythes Are Quoted characters

Appears from the start

Mistress of Ingleside at Glen St. Mary, and by this stage of the series a woman whose name carries weight in the district. She appears chiefly in the short domestic scenes that link the stories, sitting with her family and reading her poems aloud, and in the stories themselves she is mostly offstage: a figure the neighbours quote, admire, envy, or resent according to their own natures. Several of the verses in the book are presented as her work.

Appears from the start

The long-established doctor at Glen St. Mary, whose opinion the neighbourhood repeats as settled fact. He appears in the linking family scenes, dry and affectionate, and is talked about throughout the stories by people who have their own reasons for approving or disliking him.

Appears from the start

The Ingleside housekeeper of a lifetime, elderly and unchanged in her loyalties, who takes part in the family conversations with her usual certainty about the failings of the neighbours and the merits of the Blythes.

Appears from the start

The poet of the Blythe family, present in the linking scenes of the first part and represented throughout the book by verses attributed to him. His poems are read aloud at Ingleside and are the occasion for much of the family's talk.

Appears from the start

The eldest Blythe son, grown and settled, who appears in the family scenes and is referred to in the district as one of the Ingleside children the Glen has watched grow up.

Appears from the start

The youngest Blythe daughter, grown up now, who takes part in the family conversations at Ingleside between the stories.

Appears from the start

The Blythe twins, grown women by the time of these stories, who appear in the linking scenes at Ingleside and are counted among the Glen's own.