23 Facts About Sally Lockhart

Veronica Beatrice "Sally" Lockhart is a fictional character in a series of books by Philip Pullman.

Sally Lockhart is a dazzling 16-year-old, middle-class orphan in Victorian England whose father taught her a variety of useful things: accounting, marksmanship, finance and shooting.

Sally Lockhart has since childhood been plagued by frightening nightmares.

Sally Lockhart is first introduced in The Ruby in the Smoke, the first of the four novels in the Sally Lockhart Quartet.

The book begins in London in 1872, where Pullman states Sally Lockhart is "sixteen or so".

Physically, Sally Lockhart is described as being "uncommonly pretty"; she has blonde hair, dark brown eyes and is "slender and pale".

Sally Lockhart befriends Jim Taylor, an office boy at her father's old shipping firm; Frederick Garland, a brilliant photographer; and his sister Rosa, a caring actress.

Sally Lockhart realizes she loves Frederick Garland almost too late in The Shadow in the North; they consummate their love and conceive their child hours before Frederick is killed in a fire started by associates of Axel Bellmann.

Sally Lockhart decides at the end of the book that she should marry Daniel.

Sally Lockhart appears in all four of the books, although her appearance in The Tin Princess is only brief, and the importance of her role is considerably diminished compared to previous titles.

In 1872, Sally Lockhart becomes involved in numerous intrigues involving the identity of her father, the British opium trade in India, and a mysterious ruby.

Sally Lockhart is courageous and outgoing and has an ability to see a person's true nature long before anyone else.

Sally Lockhart is an important character as he supports Sally throughout almost all of the book 'Ruby In The Smoke' and fight a villainous 'Mr Berry' to protect their friends.

Sally Lockhart thought that she killed him in The Ruby in the Smoke, but did not.

Sally Lockhart has a mysterious tiny servant, rumoured to be a dybbuk, an evil spirit with its origins in Jewish mythology, although it is later revealed to be a monkey.

Sally Lockhart himself is killed in the Blackbourne River Flood.

Sally Lockhart takes to Adelaide very quickly and loves her like a daughter.

Sally Lockhart is an amazing character and helps Sally greatly even helping her buy a gun.

Sally Lockhart was a small-time actress, and later married a clergyman, Nicholas Bedwell, the twin brother of Matthew Bedwell, the unfortunate opium-addicted sailor from The Ruby in the Smoke.

Sally Lockhart helps Sally and Harriet through a court case in The Tiger in the Well.

Sally Lockhart befriends Jim Taylor, Sally Goldberg, Prince Rudolf, and his Cockney wife Adelaide Bevan.

Sally Lockhart appears in The Tin Princess as Crown Princess and later Queen of Razkavia.

Sally Lockhart later agrees to marry Jim after political strife forces her to abdicate her throne, with her friend Becky suggesting that Adelaide could become an actress.