A religious woman certain of her own righteousness, she is convinced also of everyone else's sinfulness. Long before coming to the island, Emily Brent fired and kicked out of her house a woman named Beatrice Taylor because Beatrics had gotten pregnant out of wedlock. Beatrice, in despair, subsequently killed herself. Brent never consciously feels any remorse (though there are hints that subconsciously she may) and she therefore feels confident that she will not be killed even after the recording plays.
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Emily Brent Character Timeline in And Then There Were None
The timeline below shows where the character Emily Brent appears in And Then There Were None. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
Miss Emily Brent sits rigidly in her train car thinking about the weakness and laziness of...
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Chapter 2
Emily Brent sits in her room reading from the Bible about sinners receiving their punishment in hell....
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Chapter 3
Miss Brent and Vera get up and everyone follows them to the drawing room. Vera says...
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...thud as Mrs. Rogers faints. Everyone starts frantically asking what happened and only Wargrave and Miss Brent seem unmoved.
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Chapter 4
Mrs. Brent admits to nothing. She says that she has always lived by her conscience and has...
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Chapter 5
...own glass. No one can believe it but they can't think of a better explanation. Miss Brent suggests that they should all go to bed.
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Chapter 6
...he is performing his failed operation again. But in his dream he is operating on Miss Brent and realizes that he has to kill her. She laughs at him and says,...
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...that Mrs. Rogers died last night. Armstrong says that he cannot tell how she died. Miss Brent thinks that she died from a guilty conscience; she calls it an Act of...
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Chapter 7
Vera and Emily Brent go for a walk to the summit of the island to look for the boat....
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Vera asks if this means that Miss Brent believes the others are guilty. Brent says that besides Lombard who killed the natives...
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Emily Brent says that given the circumstances last night, with gentlemen around, she of course wasn't going...
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Vera is horrified by this story but Miss Brent feels no guilt or remorse. She says that if Beatrice had behaved like a...
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Chapter 8
Miss Brent sits on the porch knitting and Vera avoids her. Wargrave also sits on the...
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Chapter 9
Miss Brent comes in and says it looks like a storm is coming. Vera apologizes for...
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Vera is shocked but Miss Brent believes that Wargrave's theory is true: one of them is possessed by the devil....
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Chapter 10
Miss. Brent is in her room and starts to read her Bible but then puts it...
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Chapter 11
They wake the rest of the guests except Miss Brent, who is not in her room. Rogers' room is also empty. Miss Brent comes...
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...playing with a hive.” She keeps laughing until Armstrong slaps her, calming her. Vera and Miss Brent make breakfast.
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...he finds it suspicious that Vera cracked up and then immediately calmed down, and that Miss Brent always seems utterly calm and was out for a walk in the morning when...
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...earlier. She starts thinking about Hugo and wonders where he is now. Vera wonders how Miss Brent can be so amazingly calm and asks why she isn't afraid of dying. Miss...
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Chapter 12
...in a half an hour to discuss the situation. Vera begins clearing the plates and Miss Brent gets up to help her but feels too weak to do so. Armstrong offers...
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They all leave Miss Brent alone in the dining room as they clear the table. Miss Brent starts to...
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Everyone else is in the drawing room waiting for Miss Brent to come in. Vera volunteers to go get her, but Blore asks her to...
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Wargrave says that this isn't really proof and suggests that they should go get Miss Brent to join them. He agrees that Dr. Armstrong should observe Miss Brent's demeanor. They...
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Chapter 13
...on his forehead where he was shot. Vera realizes that the wig was made from Miss Brent's grey wool and Blore notices that the scarlet robe was made from the missing...
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Epilogue 1
...to know who killed them, but there's very little evidence. Wargrave and Lombard were shot, Miss Brent and Marston died of cyanide poisoning, Mrs. Rogers died of an overdose of chloral,...
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They do have some evidence from the diaries kept on the island by Vera, Emily Brent and some notes by Wargrave and Blore. The death occurred in this order: Marston, Mrs....
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Epilogue 2
...Marston from a large group of people who had committed similar offenses; he heard about Miss Brent while traveling in Majorca. He heard about Blore through his own line of work...
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...and stole his revolver. And at breakfast he slipped the last bit of chloral into Miss Brent's coffee. Then when everyone left the room he injected her with cyanide and brought...
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