Narnian ChroniclesA local companion
Character

Susan Pevensie

Also known as Susan, Queen Susan, Susan the Gentle

The second Pevensie sibling, celebrated in Narnia for her archery and practical judgment. She reigns as Queen Susan the Gentle and later returns to aid Prince Caspian.

This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.

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Primary sources

In the chronicles

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe25 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter I · paragraph 1Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London duri…Open passage →
  2. Chapter I · paragraph 4"I think he's an old dear," said Susan.Open passage →
  3. Chapter III · paragraph 3"What on earth are you talking about, Lucy?" asked Susan.Open passage →
  4. Chapter III · paragraph 11"Don't be silly, Lucy," said Susan. "We've only just come out of that room a moment ago, and you were there then."Open passage →
  5. Chapter V · paragraph 2"Peter! Susan! It's all true. Edmund has seen it too. There is a country you can get to through the wardrobe. Edmund and I bo…Open passage →
  6. Chapter V · paragraph 5"Tell us, Ed," said Susan.Open passage →
  7. Chapter VI · paragraph 1"I wish the Macready would hurry up and take all these people away," said Susan presently, "I'm getting horribly cramped."Open passage →
  8. Chapter VI · paragraph 3"I expect the pockets of these coats are full of it," said Susan, "to keep away moths."Open passage →
  9. Chapter VII · paragraph 3"Sh! Look!" said Susan.Open passage →
  10. Chapter VII · paragraph 7"There it goes again," said Susan presently.Open passage →
  11. Chapter VIII · paragraph 5"No, we don't," said Susan. But Mr. Beaver shook his head in a very gloomy fashion.Open passage →
  12. Chapter VIII · paragraph 14"Who is Aslan?" asked Susan.Open passage →
  13. Chapter X · paragraph 2"What are you doing, Mrs. Beaver?" exclaimed Susan.Open passage →
  14. Chapter X · paragraph 4"But we haven't time!" said Susan, buttoning the collar of her coat. "She may be here any minute."Open passage →
  15. Chapter XII · paragraph 2…side as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open. Susan had a slight blister on one heel.Open passage →
  16. Chapter XII · paragraph 6…he East, was something twinkling and moving. "By gum!" whispered Peter to Susan. "The sea!" In the very middle of this open hilltop was the Stone Table. It was a great grim slab of grey stone…Open passage →
  17. Chapter XIII · paragraph 49"Oh, Aslan!" whispered Susan in the Lion's ear, "can't we--I mean, you won't, will you? Can't we do something about the Deep Magic? Isn't th…Open passage →
  18. Chapter XIV · paragraph 7For the last part of the journey it was Susan and Lucy who saw most of him. He did not talk very much and seemed to them to be sad.Open passage →
  19. Chapter XIV · paragraph 13This feeling affected Susan so much that she couldn't get to sleep when she went to bed. And after she had lain counting sheep and turning …Open passage →
  20. Chapter XV · paragraph 4As soon as the wood was silent again Susan and Lucy crept out into the open hill-top. The moon was getting low and thin clouds were passing across her, bu…Open passage →
  21. Chapter XV · paragraph 7"I wonder could we untie him as well?" said Susan presently. But the enemies, out of pure spitefulness had drawn the cords so tight that the girls could make not…Open passage →
  22. Chapter XVI · paragraph 2"Hush," said Susan, "Aslan's doing something."Open passage →
  23. Chapter XVI · paragraph 4"Oh, Susan! Look! Look at the lion."Open passage →
  24. Chapter XVII · paragraph 10"Does he know," whispered Lucy to Susan, "what Aslan did for him? Does he know what the arrangement with the Witch really was?"Open passage →
  25. Chapter XVII · paragraph 11"Hush! No. Of course not," said Susan.Open passage →
The Horse and His Boy9 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter IV · paragraph 26"Shame on you, my lord! Fie for shame! Queen Susan's eyes are red with weeping because of you. What! Truant for a whole night! Where have you been?"Open passage →
  2. Chapter IV · paragraph 39"There it is, Susan," said the King. "I could get no tale out of him, true or false."Open passage →
  3. Chapter V · paragraph 8"Do you mean he would make me his wife by force?" exclaimed Susan.Open passage →
  4. Chapter V · paragraph 9"That's my fear, Susan," said Edmund. "Wife: or slave, which is worse."Open passage →
  5. Chapter VIII · paragraph 1…! The false jade, the----" and here he added a great many descriptions of Queen Susan which would not look at all nice in print. For of course this young man was Prince Rabadash and of course the f…Open passage →
  6. Chapter VIII · paragraph 8…limitable empire, killing their High King and all of his blood except the Queen Susan. For I must have her as my wife, though she shall learn a sharp lesson first."Open passage →
  7. Chapter XIII · paragraph 3"And where is the Queen Susan?"Open passage →
  8. Chapter XIII · paragraph 4… Lucy, you know, who's as good as a man, or at any rate as good as a boy. Queen Susan is more like an ordinary grown-up lady. She doesn't ride to the wars, though she is an excellent archer."Open passage →
  9. Chapter XV · paragraph 46…wanted it again) the tale of the Wardrobe and how she and King Edmund and Queen Susan and Peter the High King had first come into Narnia.Open passage →
Prince Caspian24 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter I · paragraph 1Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how they had…Open passage →
  2. Chapter I · paragraph 5…he too suddenly changed what he had been going to say. Instead, he said, "Susan, let go! What are you doing? Where are you dragging me to?"Open passage →
  3. Chapter II · paragraph 1"This wasn't a garden," said Susan presently. "It was a castle and this must have been the courtyard."Open passage →
  4. Chapter II · paragraph 8"I wonder, was it really the hall?" said Susan. "What that terrace kind of thing?"Open passage →
  5. Chapter III · paragraph 4"It would be all right for Su," said Peter (Susan had won prizes for swimming at school). "But I don't know about the rest of us." By "the rest of us" he really …Open passage →
  6. Chapter III · paragraph 5"Anyway," said Susan, "there may be currents. Father says it's never wise to bathe in a place you don't know."Open passage →
  7. Chapter IV · paragraph 13…they were made Kings and Queens of Narnia, and their names were Peter and Susan and Edmund and Lucy. And so they reigned for ever so long and everyone had a lovely time, and it was all becaus…Open passage →
  8. Chapter V · paragraph 34… did I utter, to find it, when I was still young. It is the magic horn of Queen Susan herself which she left behind her when she vanished from Narnia at the end of the Golden Age. It is said that w…Open passage →
  9. Chapter V · paragraph 38…ing Caspian riding to seek adventures, with his sword on his left hip and Queen Susan's magic horn on his right. But when day came, with a sprinkle of rain, and he looked about him and saw on every…Open passage →
  10. Chapter VII · paragraph 48"Then in the name of Aslan we will wind Queen Susan's Horn," said Caspian.Open passage →
  11. Chapter VIII · paragraph 6…osts' in the full ceremonial way. And then this young lady" (he nodded at Susan) "does her bit of archery--and it was pretty shooting, let me tell you--and here we are. And without my armour,…Open passage →
  12. Chapter VIII · paragraph 13"No help?" said Susan. "But it has worked. And here we are."Open passage →
  13. Chapter IX · paragraph 1Susan and the two boys were bitterly tired with rowing before they rounded the last headland and began the final pull…Open passage →
  14. Chapter IX · paragraph 10… began to feel tired. She went back to the bivouac, snuggled down between Susan and Peter, and was asleep in a few minutes.Open passage →
  15. Chapter X · paragraph 6… Dwarf were now in favour of lighting a fire and cooking their bear-meat. Susan didn't want this; she only wanted, as she said, "to get on and finish it and get out of these beastly woods". L…Open passage →
  16. Chapter X · paragraph 8"At last!" said Susan.Open passage →
  17. Chapter XI · paragraph 2…'t see anything," said Peter after he had stared his eyes sore. "Can you, Susan?"Open passage →
  18. Chapter XI · paragraph 3"No, of course I can't," snapped Susan. "Because there isn't anything to see. She's been dreaming. Do lie down and go to sleep, Lucy."Open passage →
  19. Chapter XII · paragraph 34…rst the Horn and it has failed. If there ever was a High King Peter and a Queen Susan and a King Edmund and a Queen Lucy, then either they have not heard us, or they cannot come, or they are our en…Open passage →
  20. Chapter XIII · paragraph 1…w," said Peter, as they finished their meal, "Aslan and the girls (that's Queen Susan and Queen Lucy, Caspian) are somewhere close. We don't know when he will act. In his time, no doubt, not ours. …Open passage →
  21. Chapter XIV · paragraph 50"Who on earth is that?" whispered Susan.Open passage →
  22. Chapter XIV · paragraph 70… when he had got his head through, he pushed with his shoulders (Lucy and Susan fell off when he did this) and lifted the whole house up and it all fell backwards and apart. And there, still …Open passage →
  23. Chapter XV · paragraph 27… with Peter on his right and Caspian on his left. Grouped round them were Susan and Lucy, Trumpkin and Trufflehunter, the Lord Cornelius, Glenstorm, Reepicheep and others. The children and th…Open passage →
  24. Chapter XV · paragraph 50"This way," said Susan, who seemed to know all about it. "Back into the trees. We've got to change."Open passage →
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader5 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter I · paragraph 3Eustace Clarence disliked his cousins the four Pevensies, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. But he was quite glad when he heard that Edmund and Lucy were coming to stay. For deep down i…Open passage →
  2. Chapter I · paragraph 4…ould have cost too much money to take the other three all to America, and Susan had gone. Grown-ups thought her the pretty one of the family and she was no good at school work (though otherwi…Open passage →
  3. Chapter III · paragraph 78…re Caspian winded his horn. (This was not the great magic horn of Narnia, Queen Susan's Horn: he had left that at home for his regent Trumpkin to use if any great need fell upon the land in the Kin…Open passage →
  4. Chapter VIII · paragraph 5…elf again, and Edmund said he wished they could have gone to America with Susan. Then Lucy looked out of the stern windows and said:Open passage →
  5. Chapter X · paragraph 20…Lucy, still beautiful beyond the lot of mortals, was back in England. And Susan (who had always been the beauty of the family) came home from America. The Susan in the picture looked exactly …Open passage →
The Last Battle2 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter XII · paragraph 50…ight, there should be another. Has not your Majesty two sisters? Where is Queen Susan?"Open passage →
  2. Chapter XII · paragraph 51"My sister Susan," answered Peter shortly and gravely, "is no longer a friend of Narnia."Open passage →
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Connections

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CharacterPeter Pevensie

The eldest Pevensie sibling and High King during the Golden Age.

→CharacterEdmund Pevensie

A Pevensie sibling whose betrayal of the others is followed by rescue, reconciliation, and lasting courage.

→CharacterLucy Pevensie

The youngest Pevensie and the first to enter Narnia through the wardrobe.

→ObjectSusan’s horn

An enchanted ivory horn given to Susan by Father Christmas.

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