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The Lost ApothecarySarah Penner

Characters in The Lost Apothecary

4 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Caroline Parcewell

  • Eliza Fanning

    A twelve-year-old servant girl who becomes Nella's customer and apprentice; one of the novel's three alternating first-person narrators.

  • Nella Clavinger

    A 41-year-old apothecary who secretly sells poisons to women seeking to escape abusive or wronging men; one of the novel's three alternating first-person narrators.