# Old Maid Pyncheon — The House of the Seven Gables character guide

> Old Maid Pyncheon in The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0002-i-the-old-pyncheon-family

## Who they are

A deceased elderly Pyncheon relative who left a small inheritance to Hepzibah.

## In the story

### [The House of the Seven Gables](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_of_the_seven_gables_se/chapters/the-house-of-the-seven-gables)

A later Pyncheon spinster who lived in the house and died under circumstances that echo the Colonel's death.

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