# Gracie — Iola Leroy character guide

> Gracie in Iola Leroy by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0014-xii-schoolgirl-notions

## Who they are

Young girl who befriends Iola during her school days.

## In the story

### [Shadows in the Home](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/iola_leroy_se/chapters/x-shadows-in-the-home)

The youngest child who remains at home; her mother educates her for future seminary attendance.

### [XI: The Plague and the Law](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/iola_leroy_se/chapters/xi-the-plague-and-the-law)

Returns home with Marie after Leroy's death.

### [XII: Schoolgirl Notions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/iola_leroy_se/chapters/xii-schoolgirl-notions)

Iola's dying sister; bids farewell to the family and passes away peacefully, urging Iola and Harry to stand by their mother.

### [XIV: Harry Leroy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/iola_leroy_se/chapters/xiv-harry-leroy)

Mentioned as having died along with her father Eugene.

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