In Bram Stoker’s 1911 novel The Lair of the White Worm, Lady Arabella March is the Mistress of a mortgaged Diana’s Grove. She is described as a “cold-blooded” character. Her plot to get Diana’s Grove out of debt is to pressure Edgar Caswall to marry her, so that she may become “chatelaine of Castra Regis”. She is conveyed as having the ability to “use her arts and her experience” to make a man commit suicide. Arabella, whose noteable aspect is her white dress and sinuous figure, tall and exceedingly thin, with naturally piercing eyes taking on a vivid green, suggested by her green spectacles, can transform into the giant white snake of the title.
Description In Bram Stoker’s 1911 novel The Lair of the White Worm, Lady Arabella March is the Mistress of a mortgaged Diana’s Grove. She is described as a “cold-blooded” character. Her plot to get Diana’s Grove out of debt is to pressure Edgar Caswall to marry her, so that she may become “chatelaine of Castra Regis”. She is conveyed as having the ability to “use her arts and her experience” to make a man commit suicide. Arabella, whose noteable aspect is her white dress and sinuous figure, tall and exceedingly thin, with naturally piercing eyes taking on a vivid green, suggested by her green spectacles, can transform into the giant white snake of the title.
