Description
Thirty-four. Former nurse, met Samuel at the hospital in Madras. Practical, unflappable, and not remotely interested in social climbing. Attends events because Samuel needs to be seen, not because she enjoys them.
Background
Nursed at Madras before her marriage, which in this society is a slightly awkward fact that she declines to be awkward about. She has seen cholera wards and she is not impressed by a dinner party.
What Meg Says
Patience Wright keeps Samuel from being drummed out of society through sheer force of being likeable where he isn’t.
Connections
- Samuel Wright — her husband
- Margaret Cavendish — a natural connection
- Ashworth Dinner Garden Reach
In Play
Chapter 4, Session 9 (9 October 1814) — met at Garden Reach. She attended the Magistrate’s dinner with her husband Samuel and went in to it on Reverend Jessop’s arm.
Chapter 4, Session 10 (9–10 October 1814) — one quiet sentence. In the drawing room she added, quietly, that a friend of her husband’s once heard singing from the Baranagar temple drifting across the water at three in the morning. The party holds it. Her kind question about Georgiana’s hands did not fire.
Appearances
Connections
People
Family
- Samuel Wright NPC warmMet while she was nursing at Madras
Places
Visited
- Garden Reach Location1 session: The Third Course