# May Welland — The Age of Innocence character guide

> May Welland in The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** May Archer, May, Miss Welland

**First appearance:** 0001-i

## Who they are

Newland Archer's fiancée and later wife, embodying old New York innocence.

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