Sally Lockhart realizes she loves Frederick Garland almost too late in The Shadow in the North they consummate their love and conceive their child hours before Frederick is killed in a fire started by associates of Axel Bellmann. Sally's high intelligence opens a career path for her as a financial consultant, an extremely difficult job for a woman to obtain considering women at this point still were refused the right to vote. She befriends Jim Taylor, an office boy at her father's old shipping firm Frederick Garland, a brilliant photographer and his sister Rosa, a caring actress. The two reside at Peveril Square, Islington, until Sally moves out during the beginning of The Ruby in the Smoke. In the beginning, Sally is placed under the care of her father's second cousin, a widow named Caroline Rees who insists upon being called "Aunt Caroline". Physically, Lockhart is described as being "uncommonly pretty" she has blonde hair, dark brown eyes and is "slender and pale". The book begins in London in 1872, where Pullman states Lockhart is "sixteen or so". Sally Lockhart is first introduced in The Ruby in the Smoke, the first of the four novels in the Sally Lockhart Quartet. She has since childhood been plagued by frightening nightmares. Sally Lockhart is a dazzling 16-year-old, middle-class orphan whose father taught her a variety of useful things: accounting, marksmanship, finance and shooting. Veronica Beatrice "Sally" Lockhart (later Goldberg) is a fictional character in a series of books by Philip Pullman.
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