# Van — Herland character guide

> Van in Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Van, Essa

**First appearance:** 0000-i-a-not-unnatural-enterprise

## Who they are

The narrator and third explorer; a sociologist who becomes Ellador's partner and chronicles Herland.

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