Short Fiction · Character
Julius Mackenzie
An educated, debt-ridden writer who appeals to a stranger for help, Julius Mackenzie struggles to support his family while a terrible skeleton rattles in the cupboard.
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Also known as Mr. Julius Mackenzie, Mr. Mackenzie, Mackenzie, poor Mackenzie
First appearance: the widow s mite
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A distressed scholar with a wife and four children, seeking literary work; described as a drunken blackguard by the editor, but the narrator attempts to befriend him.
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Mackenzie writes to a man he has never met, confessing his impecuniosity, his infidel opinions, and his association with the Spotted Dog in Liquorpond Street, yet his letter carries such keen intelligence that his…
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- Other
Character groups
- Plumplington & Social Climbing
- Dramatic Island Stories
- Romantic Entanglements & Military
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- Closing
Bessy Pryor’s internal struggle reaches its emotional and psychological peak as she wrestles with the conflict…
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See Julius Mackenzie in the widow s mite