Mary Olivier: A Life · Character
Miss Lambert
A governess or teacher briefly employed by the family.
minor
First appearance: book i infancy 1865 1869
Miss Lambert shows up with force in Chapter XVIII. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Accompanies Mary to London and speaks kindly to Papa, helping to ease the journey.
Miss Lambert first appears in 0000 book i infancy 1865 1869.
In Chapter XVIII: Accompanies Mary to London and speaks kindly to Papa, helping to ease the journey.
Later, in Chapter XXX: Her old letter praising Mary is read; she is remembered as a kind, dead woman.
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Mary Olivier’s emotional peak is her ecstatic, unutterable happiness while composing her “Dream-Play” on the m…
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