Sally Lockhart

Sally Lockhart is a young and confident young woman, an unusual young woman too as she is a financial consultant. However, her career was often frowned upon by men as women were not supposed to have such careers in the nineteenth century.

In The Ruby in the Smoke she befriends Jim Taylor, an office boy, Frederick Garland, a brilliant photographer, and his sister Rosa, a caring actress. Sally has unusually dark eyes for one so fair, this blonde is the heroine of the first three books, and her way with numbers allows her a successful career as a financial consultant, but sometimes her pride causes her to risk what she cannot bear to lose.In The Ruby in the Smoke, late in the story she finds out that Captain Lockhart is not her father.

Sally Lockhart realises she loves Frederick Garland almost too late (The Shadow in the North); they consummate their love and conceive their child on the night Frederick is killed in a fire started by associates of Axel Bellmann. Sally mourns the fact she and Fred never had a chance to marry and that their daughter (named Harriet) is illegitimate.

At the end of The Tiger in the Well, Sally realises that Jewish-Hungarian socialist and journalist, Daniel Goldberg, is the only man who would ever measure up to Fred's bravery, understanding, and love. And Sally realises that Fred would have liked Daniel very much. She decides at the end of the book that she should marry Daniel. It is unknown whether Sally Goldberg nee Lockhart converts to Judaism on her marriage to Daniel.

Sally is in all of the books, although her appearance in The Tin Princess is only brief.