# Mrs. Brumby — Short Fiction character guide

> Mrs. Brumby in Short Fiction by Anthony Trollope.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0044-mrs-brumby

## Snapshot

A literary lady who dictates the terms of her own praise and will not leave a reviewing post without a flattering letter.

## Who they are

Mrs. Brumby moves through the world of magazines and literary offices, a woman of peculiar and well-developed talents who negotiates her position with shrewd self-regard. She rejects two offered letters of praise and dictates the epithets of the third, refusing to abandon the Literary Curricle on any lesser terms. Her arrival unsettles the narrator's editorial composure and sets in motion the social comedy of literary ambition and self-promotion.

## In the story

### [Mrs. Brumby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_4_se/chapters/mrs-brumby)

The central figure of the chapter, a hateful, feared, and persistent woman of letters who lacks any writing ability but possesses immense energy, audacity, and unscrupulousness.

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