Lady Fuchsia Groan

Lady Fuchsia Groan is a fictional character in the Gormenghast series of fantasy novels by English writer Mervyn Peake.

Fuchsia is also the subject of the song "The Drowning Man" by English rock band The Cure, which is about her death and mentions her by name.

The Earl of Groan and his Countess have a daughter, Fuchsia, but only a son can inherit the earldom and the family seat, Gormenghast.

[citation needed] The novel describes Fuchsia as "a girl of about fifteen with long, rather wild black hair.

Fuchsia is a dreamer and a romantic, who escapes the dull pace of life in Gormenghast by reading fantasy tales.

Since Steerpike himself started out as a lowly kitchen boy and advanced upwards through the society of Gormenghast, perhaps it is also possible for Fuchsia to change her own destiny.

Unbeknownst to Fuchsia, Steerpike is responsible for the death of her father, an event that saddens the young woman deeply and adds to her feeling of being utterly alone.

While the television series portrays Steerpike as begging Fuchsia for shelter even after he has been revealed as a criminal (a request for assistance that she rejects), there is no corresponding scene in the novel.

In Titus Alone, Fuchsia is one of the characters from the earlier novels mocked by Cheeta in the nightmarish scene that she puts on in the Black House (chapter 105).