Characters

Year of Wonders is populated by many strong and vivid main characters as well as a number of interesting and well-developed secondary characters. The characters listed below play a significant role in the story.

• Anna Frith – Story’s narrator

• Michael Mompellion – Village rector (based on real-life clergyman William Mompesson)

William Mompesson

• Elinor Mompellion – Rector’s wife (based on real-life wife of Mompesson, Catherine Mompesson)

Grave of Catherine Mompesson

• George Viccars – Journeyman tailor and Anna’s boarder, Viccars is responsible for unintentionally bringing the plague from London into the village in a bundle of cloth (based on real-life tailor’s assistant George Vicars)

George Vicars Home

• Mem Gowdie – Village healer

• Anys Gowdie – Village healer

To learn more about the actual individuals on whom some of the story’s characters are based, visit the links that offer historical information about Eyam.