The Characters of Evelyn Westcott’s Diary

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This is a nearly complete list of the people, real and imaginary, who populate the eight parts of Evi Westcott's diary. Hugs, Daphne

(actual historical figures are indicated by an asterisk)

In Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Evelyn Tucker Westcott (Evi), née Edward Tucker
Enid Tucker Bonner Westcott (Aunt Enid), born 1852, Evi’s father’s older sister
Captain Joseph Westcott, Aunt Enid’s third husband
* Mary Elizabeth Garrett, Aunt Enid’s friend and patron
* Edith Hamilton, noted scholar of classical Greece, headmistress of Bryn Mawr School
Miss Blume, Mr. Prochnik, Miss Weidemeyer, Fraulein Schneider (later Frau Schmidt), Miss Blume, teachers at Bryn Mawr
* Jane Addams, pioneering social worker, founder of Hull House, Chicago
* Dr. Alice Hamilton, colleague of Jane Addams at Hull House, Chicago; sister of Alice
Dr. Charlotte (Tottie) Clathrop, PhD, trail-blazing researcher into the cross-species effect of glandular extracts
Cecil Clathrop, Tottie’s brother
Balthasar Bishop, her colored lab assistant, afterward Evi’s collaborator in the production of Gynol
Mrs. Portia Bishop, Balthasar’s wife
Caesar Bishop, Balthasar’s son
Ruby, Pearl and Calvin Bishop, Balthasar’s younger children
Alexandra Cooper, neé Artemus Cooper, Balthasar’s niece
* Dr. Adolph Meyer, JHU Medical College, founder of the Hopkins Institute of Mental Hygiene
Dr. Reuben Crawford, psychologist, Tottie’s associate at JHU
Martin Tolliver, son of Unitarian preacher Joseph Tolliver, Evi’s boy friend, aeronautical enthusiast
Ms. Campbell Cooper, Aunt Enid’s friend
Sally Campbell and Flora Cooper, particular friends of Evi’s at Bryn Mawr School
Frank Campbell, Sally’s raffish older brother
Christy Hodgson, Evi’s friend from St. Timothy’s School
Eleanor Hodgson, a social worker, Christy’s older sister
Mark Hodgson, Christy’s brother
William Hodgson, Christy’s father
Stella Sampson, Ginnie Montgomery, Trudy Welch, Beatrice McKenzie, Clarice Brown, Beatrice Cohen, Mary-Alice Webb, Cecily Harper, Elly Hochner, Isabelle Armstrong -- Evi’s friends and classmates at Bryn Mawr School.
Dorothy Downey, nee Arthur, one of Tottie’s Girls, Evi’s bosom friend and Bryn Mawr classmate.
Mrs Letitia Downey, Dorothy’s mother
*Edith Hooker, Maryland suffragette leader
*Alice Paul, radical suffragette leader
*Victoria Woodhull, feminist candidate for President, 1872
*Charles Iverson, society photographer
Mr. Endicott, Peabody Conservatory prig
Tom Shoesmith, Dick Smithers, Rodney Llewellen — miscellaneous Baltimore boys
*George Herman Ruth, resident, St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, prodigious ballplayer
Rachel Klimintz, neé Joshua Klimintz
Nathan Weiss, MD, Rachel’s maternal uncle
Mrs. Eustis Rawlings, fixture of Baltimore society
Fiona Rawlings, her bohemian daughter
Ted Rawlings, her cross-dressing son, a painter; Dorothy Downey’s partner
* H. L. Mencken, Baltimore Sun columnist
*Eubie Blake, pioneer jazz musician
Pascal Lavigne, 2nd Secretary of the French Embassy in Washington
Wilkinson, head, Oriental Department, Smithsonian Institution, friend of Aunt Enid
Igar Lutjak, recent immigrant, chemist, engaged to Rachel Klimintz
* Miss Etta Shields, cross-dressing vaudeville sensation and impresario, aka ‘Baltimore Bertie’
Henry (Henrietta) Halloran, ingénue, later ‘principal girl’ of the Etta Shields Review
Miss Thornton, Henrietta’s governess
Moira Halloran, maid to young Evi, Henry’s older sister, m. Evan O’Dwyer
Pegeen Halloran, Moira’s successor as lady’s maid to Evi and Aunt Enid
Cook, Beulah, Gideon, Peggy, Kate, Patsy — servants at Aunt Enid’s.
Benjamin Coxnell — Tottie’s patient who died young
‘Tottie’s Girls’ — Margaret Stickney, Julia Herz, Ingrid Svensen, Eilidh and Alicia Owens, Maeve Binchey, Sylvia Spagnuolo, Helen, Cecily Young, Jane Ellen Webb, plus Rachel Klimintz, Alexandra Cooper, Dorothy Downey and Evelyn Westcott.
Oliver Stokes, Esq., Aunt Enid’s attorney
Archibald Black, Baltimore Sun reporter, Sally Campbell’s fiance
Dr. Rosengarten, back up physician at Nathan’s East Baltimore clinic

In Perkinstown, Pennsylvania

Finney Baker, 8th grade bully
Billy Barkell, Evi’s childhood friend, afterwards an Annapolis midshipman
Lucian Truscott, schoolmaster
Franklin and Arabella Tucker, Evi’s parents
Geoffrey Tucker, Evi’s oldest brother
Eben Tucker, Evi’s other brother, and his wife, Ruth
Captain Bonner, Aunt Enid’s first husband
Pastor Watson
Dr. Cutter

In Massachusetts

G. Stanley Hall, President of Clark University
Professor and Mrs. Nathaniel Fenwick, Harvard
Charles Fenwick, their son
Allie Fenwick, their daughter, a lepidopterist
Oliver Peabody, Harvard College friend of Charles

In Upstate New York

* Glenn Curtiss, aviation pioneer in Hammondsport
Tom Armstrong, Martin’s fellow engineering student and aviation buff at Cornell University
Spencer & Polly Richardson, Martin’s aunt and uncle in Ithaca

In London

Winifred (Winnie) Clem, British exchange student at Bryn Mawr, authoress
Rupert Alistair FitzWilliam Roark, Winnie’s boyfriend, later fiancé and husband
Dr. Cuthbert Clem, Winnie’s botanist father
Lady Violet Davyss, Winnie’s mother, a gender-bending anthropologist
* Virginia Stephen, an aspirant writer
* Vanessa Stephen, her sister
* Lytton Strachey, aspiring biographer
* Leonard Woolf, Virginia Stephen’s beau
Lord Toby Whyfford, a dolt
* Emmaline Pankhurst, radical suffragette, Winifred Clem’s aunt
* Christabel Pankhurst, radical suffragette, Winifred’s cousin
Major McKenzie, Letitia Downey’s escort to the Far East
Beatrix Triscuit-Cheevers, male impersonator, fencer, cracker fortune heiress, friend of Harry Halloran

In France

Mme Alexis Bezroukoff-LeBlanc, Paris, a dominating matron
M. Hubert LeBlanc, her corseted husband
Lucie, her daughter, and Lucie’s husband, Guilliame
Jean-Christophe and Nicholas, her sons
Frieda, her daughter
*Etta and Clarabel Cone, Baltimore Jewish ladies resident in Paris, modern art collectors
*Gertrude Stein, their neice
Mr. Prescott, a bloviating Brit
*Louis Bleriot, Henri Farmand, Louis Poulhan — French aviation pioneers
* Pablo Picasso, a young Catalan artist
* Nathalie Clifford Barney, American heiress, femme scandale & patroness of the erotic arts
* Lili Elbe (Einar Wegener), artist(e) and model
* Gerde Wegener, art deco illustrator, Lili’s wife

In Austria-Hungary

Baron Charles-Yves de Houphouet de Bligny, Aunt Enid’s second husband
*Dr. Reinhold Steinach, scientist
*Dr. Professor Otto Rank, Freudian psychologist
Mme Olivia Bezroukoff, Vienna
Her children, Lara, Sasha, Adele and Raymond
Herr Dinkeldorf, Vienna landlord
Evi’s fellow students in the German class: Hiro, Achmed, Sophia, Erik
Madeleine Spielvogel, their German instructor
* Archduke Franz Ferdinand
* Adolph Hitler, artist
Catherine ‘Kat’ Strasser, FTM habitue of the Vienna demimonde
* Gustav Klimt, artist-colossus
Dr. Joachim Lubitz, professor of psychology, University of Vienna
Leá¼tnant-Kommander Já¶rgen Hauptmann, German naval officer & Aunt Enid’s stepson
* Doktor Professor Sigmund Freud, psychologist
* Anna (Annika) Freud, his daughter
Monika Vá¶rgspraut, aka ‘Marko,’ famous travesti
* Karl Jung, psychologist, junior colleague of Sigmund Freud
* Sandor Ferenczy, psychologist, junior colleague of Sigmund Freud
Count Kurt von Tueffenbach, Captain of hussars, Sasha’s lover

In Germany

* Magnus Hirschfeld, German ‘homosexual rights’ exponent
* J. Friedrich Gudernatsch, German hormone researcher

In Italy

* Maria Montessori, Italian early childhood educator
Professor and Mrs. Hilda Morrison, American antiquarians travelling in Italy
Gustavo & Beatrice Morabbi, pillars of the Hebrew community in Rome
Massimo Morabbi, their gender-conflicted son, sometimes ‘Marisa’
Giulietta Scampidarosso, disinherited marchioness, Fiona Rawlings’ lover

In Switzerland

* Friedrich Jessen, MD — pioneering director of the Waldsanatorium

In Saigon, French Indo-China

Edgar Downey, Dorothy’s father
Constant duCroix, advocat
Bich-Ngoc, Edgar Downey’s wife
Etienne, Bich Ngoc’s son, Edgar’s adopted son
Sophie and Madelaine, Edgar Downey’s children by Bich-Ngoc