Safie

A veiled stranger who arrived on horseback at the cottage, with raven-black braided hair, dark gentle eyes, and a fair, pink-tinged complexion, causing Felix's melancholy to vanish and inspiring ecstatic joy in him and the household; she spoke a language unknown to the cottagers, communicating at first by signs, and knelt to kiss the old father's hand before he embraced her affectionately. She began learning the cottagers' language (progressing more slowly than the eavesdropping Creature), played the guitar and sang beautifully, and was instructed by Felix using Volney's Ruins of Empires, through which she learned history and empires and wept over the fate of the original American inhabitants.

Daughter of a Turkish merchant imprisoned and condemned to death in Paris; her mother was an enslaved Christian Arab who taught her to aspire to independence beyond Muhammadan norms, making Turkey abhorrent to her. She arrived in Paris the day her father was imprisoned, visited him, and corresponded gratefully with Felix (who plotted her father's escape); after fleeing to Leghorn with her father, she enjoyed Felix's company and was promised to him in marriage, but her father later commanded her to renounce Felix and return to Turkey after the family's ruin. Refusing, she fled with jewels and money after her father tried to leave her behind, journeyed to Germany (nursing and losing her attendant en route) to reunite with Felix at the De Lacey cottage, where her arrival dispelled Felix's melancholy; she began learning the cottagers' language more slowly than the eavesdropping Creature, played guitar and sang, and studied history with Felix via Volney's Ruins of Empires, weeping over the fate of the original Americans.

Daughter of a Turkish merchant condemned in Paris; raised by her Christian Arab mother to value independence, she fled to Germany to reunite with Felix at the De Lacey cottage after her father's betrayal and the family's ruin, learning the cottagers' language and history (via Volney's Ruins of Empires) alongside the secretly eavesdropping Creature. In this chapter she departed with Felix and Agatha on a long country walk, and upon returning to find the Creature in the cottage, she rushed out in horror, unable even to attend to the fainted Agatha.

Daughter of a condemned Turkish merchant who fled to Germany to reunite with Felix at the De Lacey cottage; after returning from a country walk to find the Creature with De Lacey, she rushed out in horror, unable even to tend to the fainted Agatha, and according to Felix would never recover from the shock, after which the family abandoned the cottage for good.