# Miss Sarah Jack — Short Fiction character guide

> Miss Sarah Jack in Short Fiction by Anthony Trollope.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Miss Sarah, Miss Jack, aunt Sarah

**First appearance:** 0005-miss-sarah-jack-of-spanish-town-jamaica

## Snapshot

A harsh-voiced Jamaican spinster and fierce patriot who shames her reluctant nephew into the legislature—and into the path of his own future.

## Who they are

Miss Sarah Jack lives in a ghostlike house at Spanish Town, rich, ungainly, and never silent about the perfidy of England or the apathy of Jamaica's best men. She needles Maurice Cumming for hiding at his estate instead of taking his father's seat in the Assembly, and her eloquence finally moves him to stand. Disliked but respected, she embodies the colonial conscience that will shape Maurice's public life and, indirectly, his private one.

## In the story

### [Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_4_se/chapters/miss-sarah-jack-of-spanish-town-jamaica)

A strong-willed, patriotic Jamaican woman living in Spanish Town; she pressures Maurice into politics and orchestrates his reconciliation with Marian.

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