Mildred Rogers
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Mildred Rogers is a fictional character in Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. She was played in films by Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker and Bette Davis.
One contemporary critic described her as one of the "most hateful and disagreeable female characters in fiction."
She is introduced towards the middle of the novel, when Philip Carey meets her, and she is a waitress. Philip meets her several more times, when he has a relationship with Norah, a romance-story writer who cured him of his addiction to Mildred. He meets her again later and then she is a prostitute.
Upon their third meeting, when Philip takes her in his house with her baby, we hear her voice for the first time. Philip no longer desires her and she intends to change that, unsuccessfully, after which she destroys all his belongings.
At their last encounter she is still a prostitute, and suffers from an unnamed disease.
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