Rosa Aubrey-Beecham



Rosa Aubrey-Beecham is married to Bellamy Aubrey-Beecham, the head of his family. She features in the Weekend at Grandfather's.

 Rosa is the granddaughter and sole heir of Ishmael Allanshaw, a wealthy and aristocratic gentleman who lived to one hundred and three, finally dying last August of a hear attack, with a look of horror etched so enduringly upon his face that he was buried with it.

 Her marriage to Bellamy generally appears to be a happy one, and she dotes upon her sons. In public, she is conventional, upright and well-mannered, with a reputation for kindness and charity; her influence is responsible for Bellamy’s interest in the ragged schools. As well as sewing, reading, painting watercolours, and similar pastimes, Rosa maintains an interest in several more academic disciplines, including botany and political theory; in the company of men, however, she defers easily to her husband, and she never details enough of her reading for her society acquaintances to think of her interests as anything less than ladylike.

 She has been somewhat reluctant to visit Lickleyhead thanks to some vague but distressing half-memories of a childhood visit there.

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