# Mrs. M'Kay — Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance character guide

> Mrs. M'Kay in Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance by Mark Rutherford.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** M'Kay

**First appearance:** 0004-ii-m-kay

## Who they are

The landlady of Rutherford's Camden Town lodgings, whose ordinary domestic presence measures the distance between his restless mind and the world of plain, working people.

## In the story

### [I: Newspapers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/chapters/i-newspapers)

M'Kay's wife is mentioned as the recipient of his exhortations to exactitude in speech.

### [I: Newspapers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/chapters/i-newspapers)

M'Kay is the Tory correspondent of the Gazette, a friend of the narrator, who maintains sincerity in religion and trains his children in truthfulness.

### [II: M'Kay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/chapters/ii-m-kay)

M'Kay's wife, a devoted but intellectually dependent woman whose echoing of her husband's opinions irritates him.

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