Sister of Count Pateroff, who followed Lady Ongar from Florence to England and sponged on her.

"A little, dry, bright woman she was, with quick eyes, and thin lips, and small nose, and mean forehead, and scanty hair drawn back quite tightly from her face and head; very dry, but still almost pretty with her quickness and her brightness" - The Claverings

Character criticism:

"The power of The Claverings lies in atmosphere rather than in character. Sophie Gordeloup is the atmosphere she brings it with her, the meanness and shabbiness and malice, the impudence and cheek and impertinence, the pluck and the self-reliance and the sangfroid, the humour and cynicism and general disbelief in any of the human virtues. ... She is one of Trollope's three best wicked women."- Walpole