Some Do Not … · Character

Mrs. Wannop

Valentine's widowed mother, a novelist scraping by in a Sussex cottage, whose faded gentility and fierce independence shape her daughter's suffragist convictions.

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Also known as Wannop, poor Mrs. Wannop

First appearance: part i i

As a supporting figure in Some Do Not …, Mrs. Wannop is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

Arrives unexpectedly, recognizes Tietjens as her son's benefactor, and aggressively promotes her new book to Macmaster.

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A former governess turned novelist, Mrs. Wannop keeps a modest household where her daughter Valentine does the housemaid's work between suffrage demonstrations. Her genteel poverty — the Professor's death, the cheap cottage, the borrowed respectability — sits uneasily beside the causes her daughter champions in public. She matters because the Wannop household is the moral counterweight to the Tietjens establishment: shabby, clever, unpropertied, and unimpressed by rank.

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Chapter V
Arrives unexpectedly, recognizes Tietjens as her son's benefactor, and aggressively promotes her new book to Macmaster.
Chapter VI
Hosts Tietjens, dismisses gossip about him and Valentine, shows fatigue from her writing work.
I
Tietjens helps her with newspaper articles during his time in a tin hut.
Chapter IV
Valentine's mother; suffers mental breakdown after son's imprisonment; later improves and writes.
V
Receives a commission for war articles but faces Tietjens' opposition; relies on Valentine to persuade him.

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