"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
Age: Nineteen years of age.
Nicknames:Sara does not really have any nicknames, her name is too short to form any monikers.
Occupation:She does not have a occupation perse, however Sara does help her father in his Doctors surgery and over the years she has learnt some basic medical knowledge.
Build: She is a very slender woman, she had always been what you class as ‘skinny’ but this is down to an illness she had as a child, something which she never fully recovered from.
Hair Colour: Sara’s long locks are of a honey blonde, favouring more of her mother’s golden tones, although a blend of her father’s shade is present.
Eye Colour: Her hues are a mixture of a blue and grey, almost steel like.
Scars?: Nothing imposing, just a few from scrapes and bumps through her life.
Brief written description:
Sara is a relatively tall and slender woman, her build she inherited from her father and something that as a child people would often say made her look sickly. Somewhat lacking in muscle and weakened from an illness she had as a child, Sara is not all that physically strong, however her structure has made her very agile and fast. She is a rather pretty girl with an aura of sweetness and virtue that surrounds her. Her hair is a lighter shade of honey blonde, which lightens in the summer, a combination of her mother’s blonde hair and her father’s chestnut colour; it falls to the crook of her back in soft waves. Her hair frames a cream tone face, high and prominent cheek bones and large teal eyes framed with thick black lashes, making her quite the pretty sight. Sara does take pride in her appearance, but not so get's called 'vain' she keeps herself and hair clean and smelling nice, she is a little like her father and does not like dirt; she doesn't overly care for fine clothing, opting for more simpler and comfortable clothing and the only jewellery she does own belonged to her mother and even that isn't worth a lot.
Clothing preference:
Sara has quite a simple but pretty still, around the village she is often seen wearing a beige patterned full skirt with different coloured blouses. One of her favourites is a white skirt, speckled with small flowers, accompanied by a lavender coloured blouse and straw hat. When working with her father she wears a pinny over her dresses. During the colder months Sara often wears wool cardigans which had belonged to her mother; She does have a couple of nice dresses, made from fine fabrics, although she doesn't wear them often as she finds the too restricting.
- Unlike many girls her age Sara can read and write very well, her father always made sure she achieved a full education and when she left school, her father continued to teach her at home. She often gets asked to write or read things for her neighbours and ha even began teaching some of the older women literacy skills.
- Sara is also quite knowledgeable about medicines, she has read nearly all of her father’s books and from working closely with him, she can reset broken bones, stitch up wounds and can quite accurately diagnose ailments.
Quirks:
- Sara has a tendency to over think things and can dwell on something far longer than she has too.
- She will write down the passages from her favourite books and poems and recite them until they are engraved in her memory.
Likes:
- Spending time outside
- Flowers
- Reading
- Writing letters
- Working with her father
- Learning new things
- Daydreaming
- Summer
- Riding
- Boiled Sweets
- Toasting bread over the fire with her father.
- The Thompson Boys
- Laughter
- Hearing stories
- Women’s rights
Dislikes:
- Cold weather
- Arrogant people
- Suffering
- Negligence
- Fish
- Not knowing something
- Cats
- People who are stuck in the past.
- Her stepmother
Fears:
- War and the people she could loose from it.
- One of Sara’s greatest fears is the possibility of being alone. She wants more than anything to get married and have children but men don’t like smart and opinionated women and she is not one to be dominated.
Written description:
Willing to give anybody a chance, Sara is a very approachable and friendly individual, however if you hurt her or someone she loves, well then it is rather difficult to regain her trust, also making her rather stubborn. Sara has always been a big adventurer, she loves the outdoors opting to spend most of her time out there, she could be gone for hours playing in the countryside that surrounded her village, this has also lead to a love of nature, that and her father's influence, she can often be found in her garden, working or just reading a book in the sunshine.
She is a rather chatty individual, but also an excellent listener often listening to those less fortunate in the village and helping them in anyway she could. This also makes her a good person to got to if you need help with anything and being the person that she is, she would help anyone without hesitation. Although chatty, she is not one who waffles on about anything, In fact that's something she cannot stand, when people talk just for the sake of having something to say.
Sara is an extremely intelligent woman; highly educated and well spoken, she has offered her services to help women in the village who wish to learn how to read an write. She is a person with a genuinely good heart, and you don't have to look hard to find it; she is willing to help out anyone who is in need, in truth there isn't a malevolent bone in her body. Sara can be a bit of an overachiever, trying to please people is a weakness of hers and creates complexities within her as she strives to live up to people's expectations. One way into Sara's life and heart is to make her laugh, she loves nothing more than to laugh and be merry "little laughter is the cause to the worlds miseries" she likes to say.
Family:
Dr George Clarke: Sara is very close to her father and idolises him for not forcing upon her the social convensions of women in that era. She can read and write and knows a great deal more about medicine that is probably acceptable for a young woman and that's all down to her father.
History: Sara was born to Haytham and Dawn Clarke in Tresslington and has resided in the village her entire life only leaving when she visited her grandparents in London. Unfortunately she doesn't remember much of her mother, as she died when she was just a little girl, although she does remember her father grieving for a long time over her death. For a long time it was just Sara and her father, the two, who’s relationship was once a little bit strained due to his heavy work load, quickly bonded more so.
She attended the local school in the village, her father not wanting to send her away to boarding school. He filled in the gaps of her education. Like her father Sara is an avid reader, she enjoys mysteries but also factual books, she loved to read her father’s medical journals and books, that and helping her father with house visits and in his surgery she has gained quite a bit of knowledge about medicine.
Ten years ago, her father married again, the woman in question was a former maid from the Whittaker household. From the start Sara clashed with the woman, mainly over her father affections, that and it became apparent the she held very traditional values about her own sex; she didn't like Sara's modern views.
Secret Word: Village Life