Charlotte Doyle

Charlotte is a thirteen-year-old girl who is the daughter of a wealthy shipping businessman. She has become accustomed to a high-class, refined way of living. Her parents send her to England to a private girl's school so that she can learn to become a proper young lady. At the beginning of the book, she is done with school, and she is headed to her parents' home in America. While her wealthy family has allowed her to have my opportunities, she has yet to experience many things. As a girl, she has been sheltered from seeing many things in the real world. This has caused her to be very narrow-minded about people and things that seem to be much different from her so-called proper lifestyle. Charlotte is a kind girl, who stands up for what she believes, and at the beginning of the book she believes that the...