Elaine Donovan Harrington
Names: Elaine Donovan HarringtonElaineMrs. HarringtonElaine DonovanElaine Harrington
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 21 (20)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 21Elaine is thirty-one, separated from her husband, and lives near Concord, New Hampshire, where she edits and publishes the UFO journal Visitant.
- Ch 21Elaine has strawberry-blond hair and latent metapsychic traits inherited probably from her late father Cole Donovan; her mother's old Boston money makes her wealthy.
- Ch 21Elaine never reached full operancy toward other minds, but became fully consonant with Rogi, communicating telepathically and sharing sensations with him.
- Ch 21Elaine fears her comfortable world will end in radioactive fallout, and believes her group achieved mental contact with the visitors this year.
- Ch 21Elaine is latent: she can converse telepathically only with Roger, and her mind lies completely open to him with no secrets, except under extreme psychic stress.
- Ch 21Elaine is very wealthy, with a Donovan family empire, and planned to employ Roger and capitalize on his metapsychic talents, which he resisted.
- Ch 21Elaine ran Visitant magazine, which she wanted to expand into a rallying vehicle for undiscovered superminds.
- Ch 21Elaine married Stanton Latimer in November and bore Annarita; she later abandoned Visitant for environmental activism and decided her liaison with Roger had been partly imagined.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 1She was Teresa's grandmother and owns a well-kept vacation lodge near Pohakumano that she hasn't visited in many years.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 1Elaine is a rejuvenated patron of the arts; grandmother of Teresa Kendall and great-grandmother of Marc and Jack Remillard. Rogi borrowed her Kauai house.
- Ch 2Elaine Donovan met Rogatien and young Denis on Mount Washington in 1974, revealing other operants existed.
- Ch 35Elaine arrives at Rogi's door on New Year's Eve with cheap champagne, wearing Bal à Versailles perfume, and says they have years to catch up on.
- Ch 35Elaine has strawberry-blonde hair and silvery eyes.
Connections
- partner ofRogi RemillardLovers who plan to marry in November
- family ofCole Donovandaughter
- member ofAetherians
- family ofAnnarita Latimerdaughter
- family ofStanton Latimerhusband
- leadsVisitant
- family ofTeresagranddaughter
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 21Rogi meets Elaine
Aided by Denis's mind-reading, Rogi meets Elaine at Summit House; she arranges to give him a copy of Visitant that night at the hotel's Grotto Lounge.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Rogi seduces Elaine
Rogi tells Elaine an edited UFO encounter story, dances with her, then in her suite awakens her latent telepathy and they make love; he proposes and she accepts.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Summer together
Elaine rents a house in Bretton Woods and they spend four happy months together, planning to marry in November once her divorce is final.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Disastrous Fourth of July barbecue
Roger introduced Elaine to his Remillard relatives at Cousin Gerard's barbecue in Berlin; she clashed with them, and Don used coercion to seduce her once.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Elaine reveals her pregnancy; Roger leaves her
At a New Hampshire inn near Franconia in October, Elaine told Roger she was pregnant. He read her memories, discovered Don was the father, and ended their relationship.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Rogi confides about the Family Ghost, then collapses and is rescued
Rogi tells Denis about the Lylmik Family Ghost and the Great Carbuncle, falls ill from overeating, collapses on Ape Lake's ice hallucinating Elaine, and wakes in the cabin tended by Teresa.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Rogi agrees to write at Elaine's lodge
The Family Ghost persuades Rogi to write his memoirs at Elaine Donovan's lodge near Pohakumano. Rogi hesitates over Elaine's memory but agrees, then the Ghost leaves.
- Book 4 · Ch 35Elaine Donovan's New Year's reunion
Elaine appears at Rogi's door with champagne, kisses him and says they have years to catch up on; the two begin a romantic reunion.