Describe your favourite literary character

keepcalmandcavachon

Orphan with vivid imagination falls for lad who teased her relentlessly about the colour of her plaits.

Anne of Green Gables.

Yes Hollysteers (you sound like a kindred spirit)

biglouis is this *Edmund Dantes - from The Count of Monte Christo

Correct. My favorite revenge novel.

Young girl leaves her country home to become an apprentice to a post mistress.

MrsKen33

Young girl leaves her country home to become an apprentice to a post mistress.

Lark Rise To Candleford.

Arrives as an asylum seeker, and his time as a problem solver.

An experiment shows the dark side of human nature.

Hollysteers... Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ?

MiniMoon

*choughdancer*, Pollyanna?

Reformed criminal brought in by the City leader to revive the failing post office.

No not her!

hollysteers

An experiment shows the dark side of human nature.

Frankenstein's Monster?

Namsnanny

Young strong man, wearing badly fitting clothes. Stoic and capable of violent anger.

Thought I'd bump this, and add extra clues,
American, incarcerated for physical violence

Namsnanny is it Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk

Lots of children's books on this thread, but this one isn't:

She goes to stay with distant cousins on their uncomfortable property, but sorts out their situation and finds love.

Flora Poste ( Cold Comfort Farm)

Love affair with 'no one' results in all too brief joy at discovering long lost daughter, before tragic passing.

Namsnanny

*Hollysteers*... Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ?

Right👍Namsnanny

Two sleuthing bachelors, one plays the violin.

Richard Hannay - ‘The 39 Steps’ great adventure story.

Yori for his insightful comments in ‘Young Samurai the Way of the Warrior’.

Hard drinking policeman wears cheap boots with thin soles. Marries a Duchess.

Romola 'I saw something nasty in the woodshed '🤣

LyndyLou Sam Vimes from Discworld!

A clever and devoted sister who is supposedly ugly because she has a moustache

AmberSpyglass

LyndyLou Sam Vimes from Discworld!

Correct AmberSpyglass always my favourite character!

AmberSpyglass

A clever and devoted sister who is supposedly ugly because she has a moustache

Half-sister if I am correct - one of my very favourite novels The Woman in White! But we are never in doubt of Marion's character.

You are! My very favourite book of all time.