# Aunt Priscilla — The Perennial Bachelor character guide

> Aunt Priscilla in The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Priscilla, Poor Priscilla, Poor Aunt Priscilla

**First appearance:** 0001-the-perennial-bachelor

## Snapshot

Aunt Priscilla watches the Campion household with popping eyes and sharp judgments, delivering her verdicts in a voice of archaic precision.

## Who they are

Aunt Priscilla is the elderly relative whose visits bring commentary, wine, and fruitcake, and whose eyes miss nothing — especially Victor's susceptibility to a certain perfumed caller. She speaks in a quaint, old-fashioned register ('methinks, my lady's auriferous tresses are too good to be true') that makes her both comic and quietly authoritative. Her presence sharpens the family's sense of itself, and her observations give the reader a knowing ally inside the parlor.

## Relationships

### [Maggie Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/maggie_campion)

_family_

Aunt Priscilla is Maggie's aunt, and she is a sharp-tongued but caring presence, often giving unsolicited advice.

### [Mamma Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/mamma_campion)

_family_

Aunt Priscilla and Mamma are sisters-in-law, and their relationship is marked by bickering and underlying affection.

### [Victor Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/victor_campion)

_family_

Aunt Priscilla is Victor's aunt, and she frequently scolds him for his lack of ambition, yet she cares for him deeply.

### [Uncle Willie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/uncle_willie)

_family_

Aunt Priscilla and Uncle Willie are married, and their relationship is a mix of nagging and companionship.

### [Uncle Willie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/uncle_willie)

_family_

Aunt Priscilla and Uncle Willie are married, and their relationship is a mix of nagging and companionship.

### [Mamma Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/mamma_campion)

_family_

Aunt Priscilla and Mamma are sisters-in-law, and their relationship is marked by bickering and underlying affection.

### [Victor Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/victor_campion)

_family_

Aunt Priscilla is Victor's aunt, and she frequently scolds him for his lack of ambition, yet she cares for him deeply.

### [Maggie Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/maggie_campion)

_family_

Aunt Priscilla is Maggie's aunt, and she is a sharp-tongued but caring presence, often giving unsolicited advice.

### [Maggie Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/characters/maggie_campion)

_family_

Aunt Priscilla is Maggie's aunt, and she is a sharp-tongued but caring presence, often giving unsolicited advice.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/i)

Mentioned as having made a sand-picture that ended in glue; seen scuttling along.

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

Struggles with the heat and her own ineptitude; is frightened by Cousin Lizzie's spiritualism.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/vi)

Teaches May and Lily's Sunday school class.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/xiv)

Offers her grandmother's lace wedding veil, though it is damaged by mice.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/xv)

Unknowingly causes Mamma's illness with a poisoned dish, and is present during the illness, crying constantly.

### [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/xxiv)

Visits, grieving Uncle Willie, and observes Daisy Blow's extravagance with disapproval.

### [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/xxviii)

Her autograph is found in Victor's book.

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