The Song of The Lark - Characters

Characters

• Doctor Howard Archie, barely thirty, elegant.
• Mrs Archie, her maiden name is Belle White. She is from Lansing, Michigan.
• Larry, Doctor Archie's errand boy.
• Mr Peter Kronborg, the Methodist minister. he has seven children plus the baby. born in a Scandinavian colony in Minnesota, went to school in Indiana
• Mrs Kronborg, she speaks Swedish.
• Thea Kronborg, the protagonist. She is eleven years old at the onset of the novel. After studying in Chicago, she becomes a renowned opera singer in Dresden.
• Professor Wunsch, a music teacher with a drinking problem. He lives with the Kohlers. He has taught in St Louis and Kansas City.
• Spanish Johnny, a harness maker. He used to be a painter in Trinidad. He plays the mandolin. Real name Juan Tellamantez.
• Mrs Tellamantez, Johnny's wife.
• Famos Serrenos, Spanish Johnny's cousin. He worked in a mine in Moonstone.
• Thor Kronborg, the baby son at the outset of the novel. Later, he works as Doctor Archie's chauffeur.
• Tillie Kronborg. She is the remaining Kronborg in Moonstone at the end of the novel.
• Mrs Paulina Kohler. She comes from the Rhine Valley and speaks little English. She likes to take care of her garden.
• Mr Fritz Kohler, the local tailor.
• The Kronborg's children, namely Axel, Gunner, and Anna (the elder daughter), Gus, (a local clerk in a drygoods store), Charley.
• Mrs Smiley, a millinery shop keeper.
• Billy Beemer, an old drunkard who died while playing with a switch engine.
• Ray Kennedy, a train conductor.
• Mrs Lively Johnson, a Baptist and a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She is the president of a committee in the Moonstone Orchestra. She learnt to play the piano in Grinnell, Iowa.
• Lily Fisher, Thea's rival.
• Upping, a jeweller, the 'trainer' of a drama club.
• Joe Giddy, Ray's brakeman.
• Mr Carsen, a local carpenter.
• Anna, a conventional Methodist girl.
• Reverend Lars Larsen, a friend of Mr Kronborg's in Chicago.
• Hartley Evans, a friend of Dr Archie's, a throat specialist.
• Andor Harsanyi, a piano teacher. His wife is in her thirties. They have a daughter, Tanya, and a son, Andor.
• Mrs Lorch, a German parishioner in Chicago.
• Mrs Irene Andersen, Mrs Lorch's daughter. She sings in the Mozart society in Chicago. She has married a Swedish man.
• Oscar Andersen, Irene's late Swedish husband.
• Mr Eckman, one of Mrs Lorch's lodgers. He works in a slaughterhouse in Packingtown.
• Theodore Thomas, the conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
• Madison Bowers, a singing teacher in Chicago.-man
• Maggie Evans, a girl from Moonstone who died. Thea won't sing at her funeral.
• Miguel Ramas, a Mexican from Moonstone. He has two cousins, Silvo and Felipe.
• Mrs Miguel Ramas, Miguel Ramas's mother.
• Famos Serrenos, a bricklayer.
• Miss Adler, 'Bowers's morning accompanist, an intelligent Jewish girl from Evanston'.
• Hiram Bowers, Bowers's father, a choirmaster in Boston.
• Mrs Priest
• Jessie Darcey
• Mr Philip Frederick Ottenburg, the scion of a beer magnate. He went to Harvard.or Fred Ottenburg
• The Nathanmeyers, a family of rich Jews, friends with the Ottenburgs.
• Katarina Furst, Fred Ottenburg's mother.
• Henry Biltmer. He lives on Ottenburg's ranch in Arizona.
• Mrs Biltmer, Henry Biltmer's wife. She cooks meals for her husband, Thea and Ottenburg.
• Dick Brisbane, a friend of Ottenburg's from Kansas City.
• Edith Beers, Ottenburg's wife. She now lives in Santa Barbara. She was originally engaged to Dick Brisbane.
• Alphonse, the hansom driver for Ottenburg and Edith in New York City.
• The financier from Denver
• Thomas Burk, Dr Archie's assistant.
• Jasper Flight, an undaunted investor.
• Pinky Alden, the governor that Doctor Archie helped get elected.
• Tai, Doctor Archie's Japanese servant.
• Therese, Thea's maid.
• Mr Oliver Landry, an accompanist. He grew up in Cos Cob and later helped Thea whilst in Germany.
• Necker, a successful opera singer.
• Nordquist, a man Thea nearly married.