Edith Woolvey

Edith Woolvey, born Edith Galman, is a British noble lady, the wife of Bertram Woolvey and the one time suitor of Captain William Laurence.

Early Life
Edith grew up a childhood friend to William Laurence, and was only a few years his junior. Their parents were acquaintances and early on in their teenage years they half seriously agreed to marry each other when they were older.

In His Majesty's Service
As of 1805, Edith was single and both her and Captain Laurence had the mutual understanding that they would wed when circumstance allowed it. This arrangement; however, was undone with the hatching and harnessing of Temeraire.

On his way to training in Scotland, Laurence stopped the night at Notinghamshire to visit his parents, and found Edith, along with her parents, at a dinner party there. He was unable to talk to her in the evening as her company was monopolized by Bertram Woolvey, a gambler, but was able to speak to her the next morning. He informed her that his feelings had not changed with his circumstance, to which Edith replied that she could not be expected to wait for him forever or be the lesser focus of his attentions in a marriage, when all his time and effort must go to the upkeep of his dragon. She parted Laurence's company bidding him to not think ill of her.

Some time later, before the Battle of Dover, Edith married Bertram, becoming Edith Woolvey, and set out with her new husband on a tour of the Lake district.