Characters
- Anna Frith, the protagonist of the novel, is described as a young housemaid. In the plot she is described as a widow and she also has two young sons., Tom and Jamie. She also bonds with the “Rector”s wife, Elinor.
- Elinor Mompellion, the “Rector”s wife, who bonds with Anna their house servant after the village they live in gets hit with the plague. She also dies when she is stabbed in the neck.
- Micheal Mompellion, the “Rector”, who is the new priest in the village, has to get used to the village and faces the challenge of being a leader for the village and visiting people’s bedsides as they die.
- Mr.Viccars, a tailor who stays at Anna’s house, and is the first to get sick with the plague. Before he dies, he request Anna to burn his clothes that he has made for the townspeople, but she doesn’t so the plague spreads.
- Anys Gowdie, a medicine specialist, who sleeps with the men in the village both single and married. When her aunt, Mem Gowdie, is surrounded by an angry drunk mob, she tries to come to the rescue but is persecuted by the mob for being a witch which she admits to sleeping with the devil and is hanged.
- Tom Frith, the youngest son of Anna Frith.
- Jamie Frith, the oldest son of Anna Frith.
- The Bradfords, a wealthy family who goes against the oath that the village takes. They move back to the village when the plague goes away, and they look for Anna because she took their baby that they were going to drown.
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