Emeline St. Oswald

Emeline St. Oswald is a wealthy philanthropist dedicated to improving the lives of the poor and dispossessed. She features in The Lunatic, The Doctors, and The Daemonologist.

Emeline was married to a cavalry officer, John St. Oswald, for less than a month, before he was valiantly killed in the Battle of Quatre Bras.

Eighteen years ago, Emeline's older cousin, Jennifer, was diagnosed with hysteria and taken as a private patient into the York Lunatic Asylum. She never emerged. After the fire destroyed the Asylum’s records, it became apparent that a number of people had died there, often as the result of terrible mistreatment, and their deaths had been kept secret. Jennifer’s body is probably buried in a pauper’s grave somewhere. However, while working at the girls’ orphanage on Monkgate Emeline discovered that a child had been committed to the orphanage, from the asylum, seventeen years ago, and with it had come a most distinctive pendant, which she recognised as belonging to her cousin.

Emeline is currently the guardian of Annie, who claims to be her niece, and is taking care of the mad Benjamin Davies.