Eloise Bridgerton

Name: Eloise Bridgerton. Nickname: El (by Penelope mainly). Age: 18. Gender: Female. Pronouns: She/her. Sexuality: Bisexual.

Appearance;

Face+Body: Soft oval-shaped face, youthful look, petite nose, gently curved lips, often playful or thoughtful expression, fair complexion with warm undertones, medium build, 5’6”. Eyes: Expressive bright blue eyes. Hair: Rich brown, naturally wavy, shoulder-length, full bangs. Clothing style: Regency-era dresses, often pale blue with floral styling.

More info;

Whip-smart, brazen and rebellious, Eloise Bridgerton is definitely not here to turn into just another young, simpering and mincing debutante. She believes she's destined for something much greater, though she's quite rapidly approaching marriageable age.

Eloise takes no pleasure in attending balls and other social events, preferring instead to focus on her studies. Even with this focus, she can tend to be quite naive about the world, due to how little formal education women have, including being unaware of how to become with child, and a single-minded stubborn view of love. She feels isolated from society because of this. However, she isn’t opposed to love herself, she just wants the freedoms to choose where her life goes rather than being trapped in a marriage.

She often highlights the difference between men's and women’s rights as she speaks, exhibiting jealousy over the fact that men can do whatever they want while women are expected only to get married and bear children. Eloise admires Lady Whistledown - unaware that she is truly her best friend, Penelope - due to the fact she takes society by storm as a woman, even if she must publish under a pseudonym. Despite being eager to vocalise her own idea of feminism, it is inherently flawed as she doesn’t understand women who truly want traditional things such as marriage and balls.

Eloise tends to be rather sly, investigating big secrets with great intelligence. She is also an open liar when it comes to balls, filling her dance card with fake names.

She secretly smokes cigarettes without her mother’s knowledge; only her brother Benedict knows this.

Eloise is not a very good dancer. She prefers emeralds over diamonds. Eloise is also very competitive - as with the rest of her siblings - at Pall Mall.

It is hinted that she likes the romantic poet Lord Byron since there is a portrait of him on her bedroom wall, and she uses his name on her dance card as an excuse not to dance at a ball.

She has read the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminist writer who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792.

She doesn't like horses. Her favourite colour is purple. Eloise and her sister Francesca share a birthday.

Relationships;

• Violet Bridgerton= Eloise’s mother, complicated relationship.
• Edmund Bridgerton= Eloise’s father, deceased.
• Anthony Bridgerton= Eloise’s older brother, close relationship.
• Benedict Bridgerton= Eloise’s older brother, extremely close relationship.
• Colin Bridgerton= Eloise’s older brother, caring relationship.
• Daphne Basset= Eloise’s older sister, sympathetic relationship.
• Francesca Bridgerton= Eloise’s younger sister, warm relationship.
• Gregory Bridgerton= Eloise’s younger brother, playful relationship.
• Hyacinth Bridgerton= Eloise’s younger sister, fond relationship.
• Penelope Featherington= Best friends. Penelope is secretly Lady Whistledown.
• Cressida Cowper= Enemies.

Quotes;

• “And having a nice face and hair is not an accomplishment! You know what is an accomplishment? Attending university! If I were a man, I could do that, you know! Instead, I will have to stand by and watch dear Mama peer proud because some man would like to admire my sister's face, and fill her up with babies!”
• “Can I ask you something? Was it your choice you never married? My brothers tell me I have a habit of being rather direct. But everyone tells me it is fate worse than death to end up a spinster.”
• “I watch Daphne prepare for these balls with all of those dresses and the many suitors, and I am exhausted. Suppose I want a different life, that I truly believe I am quite capable of something more, even when I am not allowed to have anything else.”
• “I look like a prize calf, trussed up for auction.”