The Madman's Daughter (2013) (edit title/settings)

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• Juliet Moreau: Narrator and main character. She is a sixteen year old girl who has lost her mother and works as a maid in a medical college. Awkward and shy. Her father disappeared when she was ten and her mother died from consumption when she was fourteen. Lives in a lodging house with twenty other girls. Has a rare form of aglycogen deficiency.
• Montgomery: A servent. he is a medical student who helps Dr. Moreau in his experiments. The son of a scullery maid.
• Edward Prince: a mysterious survivor of a shipwreck that Juliet and Montgomery rescue while on their way to the island. Was a passenger on the Viola bound for Astralia. His father is a general on tour abroad. The rest of his family is at Chesney Wold - their estate.
• Dr. Hastings: A professor at King's college
• Lucy Radcliffe: Juliet's friend
• Mrs. Bell: lead maid
• Adam: Lucy's cousin
• Henri Moreau: Juliet's father. Used to teach at King's College. Had been the most celebrated physiologist in England. Rumored to be a madman. Abandoned Juliet and her mother. Creates humans from animals. Wants to create the ideal living form.
• Jones: medical student.
• Annie: A fifteen-year old shopgirl fromm Dublin
• Balthazar: Montgomery's associate. An islander. Part dog and part bear.
• Captain Claggan: captain of the Curitiba. A drunkard
• Larsen: deckhand
• Cybeline: an islander
• Puck: An islander. Described as not having a hair on him. Instead, his scalp was covered with lumpy, flesh-colored skin like scales. He was thin, normal height, with nervous eyes.
• Alice: An islander. Created from a sheep and three rabits. Described as having a smal frame. Her upper lip split and curled to the base of her nose. Montgomery created her.
• Jaguar/Ajax: a wild islander. The doctor did something to his brain that nade him smart and civil. He stoopped his treatment because he wanted to regress.
• Caesar: An islander. Minister of the island. Has a set of elk antlers growing out of his tawny-colored hair.
• Antigonus: an islander

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• “You haven't the faintest idea what men want. They don't want some snobbish porridge-faced brat plucking at needlepoint all day.”

  Lucy

• “Which way to the skeletons, Mademoiselle Guillotine?”

  Adam

• “Juliet dear, these animals have been given a great gift, made man by careful and studied science. They're exceptional, don't you see? Capable of human thought and action, but without mankind's corruption.”

  Henri Moreau

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• Kings College of Medical Research
• Blue Boar Inn: Wooden three story building
• London

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Glossary edit see section history

• vivisection: the action of cutting into or dissecting a living body.
• amalgamation: to mix or merge so as to make a combination

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1. Megan Shepherd (Author)

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