# Mary Ann — How the Other Half Lives character guide

> Mary Ann in How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Ann, Old Ann

**First appearance:** 0018-xiv-the-common-herd

## Who they are

An older female character, possibly a tenant or street figure.

## In the story

### [IV: The Downtown Back-Alleys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/how_the_other_half_lives_se/chapters/iv-the-downtown-back-alleys)

An old dame who looked in while the narrator was exploring under Double Alley and spoke about 'Jimmy' using the sewers.

### [XX: The Working Girls of New York](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/how_the_other_half_lives_se/chapters/xx-the-working-girls-of-new-york)

One of two elderly Irish lace embroiderers; stricken with paralysis on Christmas Eve, leaving her crippled sister and herself facing starvation or the poorhouse.

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