Lady Croom

The lady of the house in the 1809-1812 Sidley Park, Lady Croom is witty, although somewhat academically challenged. She has affairs with multiple guests in her home and resents her husband’s decision to remake their garden in the Gothic style. Septimus Hodge is in love with Lady Croom.

Thomasina Coverly

The pupil of Septimus Hodge, Thomasina Coverly goes from the age of fourteen to the brink of seventeen within the narrative span of the play. Thomasina is a mathematical genius, although she is also an intuitive genius, who possibly discovers a formula that would predict the entire future. Thomasina dies in a fire in her bedroom the night before her seventeenth birthday.

Augustus Coverly

Augustus comes in at the end of the play and is Thomasina’s fifteen-year-old brother. Augustus bears a striking resemblance to Gus Coverly, although Augustus is fifteen years old in 1812 and Gus...