Alice ( Lydia Raymond )

Alice or later to be known as Lydia Raymond, is the natural daughter of Helen Raymond. Alice originally was one of Mary's scullery maids in the kitchens. When Mary had to release all of the maids for financial reasons, Alice told Mary that she was returning to the countryside with family. She later comes back to the company of Ms. Jekyll by way of Catherine having snuck into Saint Mary Magdalen's. Catherine was bunked with Alice during her stay and the girl helps Catherine and in a way gets nearly killed herself when she's taken captive. She escaped the orphanage of St. Mary Magdalen's and was brought in by Mary and the girls. Mary asks her how and why she was at Saint Mary Magdalen's, an orphanage for lost and homeless girls. She explains that she lied about her family in the countryside and had no place to return to. She was asked to stay along with Mrs. Poole and she agrees under the terms "So long as I don't have to go on adventures or you know, die". She agrees to this unknowingly that adventures she will indeed have.

Book II:

Alice who has never been the focus of any of the stories thus far, is shown to have an interesting ability in that she can, under circumstance disappear, or atleast have people not see her directly. In book two, she, Beatrice, and Catherine find out that Seward and Prendick are meeting at the Alchemical Society house in Soho. Alice follows Seward and to the meeting house where she sneaks inside and see's that they have a chained man in their cellar. This is one of Prendick's creations, Archibald the Orangataun man. She helps him escape and returns with him to 11 Park.

It's revealed here that Alice has some gifts of her own. It's starting to be hinted at that she has the power to create illusions. She's later introduced to a man named Marvelous Martin, when she travels with Justine and Catherine and join up with Lorenzo's Circus of Marvels and Delights. Here he has a few sessions of training with her, helping her at the very least to focus her abilities.

Book III:

Alice power of