# Mother — Five Children and It character guide

> Mother in Five Children and It by E. Nesbit.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Darling Mother

**First appearance:** 0001-five-children-and-it

## Snapshot

The children's brisk, loving mother, whose return from Granny's turns a heap of unexplained jewels into a household crisis of truth and trust.

## Who they are

She arrives home to a house full of flowers and four children who suddenly cannot meet her eye, then opens a green leather case and finds a pearl-and-diamond ring that fits her wedding finger perfectly. Practical and kind, she calls for the police, questions Martha, and tries to make sense of a burglary that seems to have walked itself into her bedroom. Her steady, unmagical presence is exactly what the children cannot confide in — the gap between what they know and what she could believe is the story's quietest, sharpest tension.

## Relationships

### [Cyril](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/five_children_and_it_se/characters/cyril)

_family_

Cyril has a respectful and loving relationship with his mother, who is often absent but dearly loved.

### [Cyril](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/five_children_and_it_se/characters/cyril)

_family_

Cyril has a respectful and loving relationship with his mother, who is often absent but dearly loved.

### [Cyril](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/five_children_and_it_se/characters/cyril)

_family_

Cyril has a respectful and loving relationship with his mother, who is often absent but dearly loved.

## In the story

### [Dedication](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/five_children_and_it_se/chapters/dedication)

Implied as the caretaker who will keep the book on the shelf until the child can read.

### [XI: The Last Wish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/five_children_and_it_se/chapters/xi-the-last-wish)

Returns home; finds the ring on her dressing table; later has a carriage accident but is unharmed.

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