# Sophy Joliffe — The Nebuly Coat character guide

> Sophy Joliffe in The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sophia Joliffe, Sophia

**First appearance:** 0007-vii

## Snapshot

A lively, laughing farmer's wife who sang powerful songs, painted flowers over hidden portraits, and drew every eye in Cullerne Market with her beauty and high spirits.

## Who they are

Sophia Joliffe, remembered as Sophia Flannery after her marriage, was the vivacious young woman whose charm and artistic pretensions made her the talk of Wydcombe and Cullerne. Her habit of painting flowers over an older canvas, her pride in a picture she claimed was worth a hundred pounds, and her easy laughter with farmers and redcoats alike mark her as a woman who refused to be contained by rural convention. Her past, and the portrait she concealed, become the hinge on which Westray's suspicions turn, making her the absent center of the novel's deepening mystery.

## In the story

### [Chapter V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/chapters/v)

Mentioned as the mother of Miss Euphemia and Martin, who painted the flower picture and left her family.

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_nebuly_coat_se/chapters/xvi)

Anastasia's grandmother, who painted the flower and caterpillar picture, and from whom Anastasia inherited her artistic talent.

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