Biography of Edith Pelham: Age Career & Net Worth

Edith Pelham Physical Appearance

Edith has strawberry blonde waves, delicate lips, a light complexion, a long nose, and a slim figure. Although she is not considered as beautiful as her sisters, Mary Talbot and Sybil Branson, and her second cousin Rose Aldridge, she is always glamorous and fashionable, particularly in the later seasons.

Edith Pelham Personality

Edith’s greatest struggle in life has been to stand out and be appreciated for her own talents. Of four prospective romantic relationships (Patrick, Strallan, Gregson, and Bertie Pelham), each failed to materialize into something happy or lasting, until Bertie Pelham. It has gotten to the point where she is described as ‘Poor Edith,’ due to the amount of suffering and heartache she goes through.

However, this finally ended when Edith married Bertie Pelham, the new Marquess of Hexham when he apologized for his behavior and asked her to give him another chance. Years of resentment have built a fierce rivalry between her and her sister Mary to whom she displays her mean, jealous, and cruel side.

However, Edith is a survivor (if something of a notoriously bad planner) and she continues to dream of a life filled with love and a family of her own and remains in pursuit of that. While concerned about class distinctions, like every woman of her status in that era would be, Edith has never let them stop her, in between attempts to help others or prove her worth.

She learns how to drive and volunteers at the Drake family farm, tends to the wounded as head of non-medical welfare when Downton Abbey is a convalescent home, fought to have William Mason brought to Downton and then attended to him in his dying days, and wrote a popular editorial column before eventually running the magazine despite protests from her family.

Years of change and loss have seen a softening of Lady Edith. She is less snobbish and more devoted to her family, even going as far as to make greater efforts to have a happier relationship with Mary which they do to some extent.