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Victoria Bate (nee Bode)-a middle-aged woman. She worked her whole life as a homemaking, home-caring housewife who sweeps the house with pleasure, she pleasantly plants the seeds in her garden of pink roses and lilies, she leave the last the crumb for her husband and she takes delight in the hearth, cooking cakes and surprises and quotes many times to headstrong women Kate's Final Speech from The Taming of the Shrew. But behind her smiles and sweetness, she was terribly unsympathetic, bitter and cruel and takes out her anger on younger women who serve in her household (excluding her daughters). Despite being pampered by her husband, she is desperately tired of knitting, cooking, cleaning and washing but enjoys seeing other women lesser than her have more worse positions than she does. On the other hand, she is oddly happy about her position; she doesn't have to work and finds solace (in an odd way) in her place and she does this to runaway from the disasters of the outside world. Grace Wisdom Bate-Victoria's eldest daughter; a raving beauty with clear skin and dressed in long flowing flowery dresses. Yet beauty is skin deep; she is a sanctimonious, vain lady who lets swear word out once in a while, though silently. She too both enjoys and hate her work as a 'housemaid' and is verily disgusted when washing her step-father's feet and shaving his beard. Eliza Bate-Victoria's youngest daughter; not very beautiful as her sister but very pretty with her curly hair, soft eyes and small bosoms. But like her sister and mother, she is verily self-righteous and arrogant. She truly hates her work but prays for the day when she will get a marriage bed and enjoy making babies instead of having them. Godfrey Bate-another Pastor and second husband of Victoria; a middle-aged, scrawny bearded man with a hairy chest, arms, legs and butt. He looks like a man that can welcome you with open arms, but he is a very rigid, misogynistic, raw, harsh, tobacco-chewing authoritarian who enjoys dreaming of having a harem and being muscular and tanned. Isaac Bate-Godfrey's eldest son. Isaac is an intellectual man with charm, but he believes in old theories like a woman's brain being smaller than a male's. He is smug, opinionated, serious and an autoerotic pervert. Noah Bate-Godfrey's youngest son. Noah is athletic, hardworking and a hypocritical tart. Despite his upbringing, he lost his virginity to a second cousin (by accident). He can be dashing and clever but dramatic, sluttish and chauvinistic.

Public Comments

1. Sounds like a Philippa Gregory novel. They will make for interesting reading but I think the last 4 characters need more development. Such as hair and eye color, likes and dislikes, education, and any other thing you can use to give the reader a more detailed understanding of them.