# Cousin Lizzie — The Perennial Bachelor character guide

> Cousin Lizzie in The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Lizzie, Cousin Lizzie Blow, Lizzie Blow, Elizabeth, Betty

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

## Snapshot

Cousin Lizzie Blow, invoked with pity and a warning, the cautionary tale of a woman whose husband found he could amuse himself without her.

## Who they are

Cousin Lizzie exists in the family's talk as both a sympathy and a lesson: married to the foolish sixty-five-year-old Cousin Sam, who has taken the painted young Daisy, she is the woman Maggie and Aunt Priscilla pity while noting her resemblance to the restless May. Her advice to Margaret—join in Victor's pleasures or lose him—carries the weight of experience. She matters as the quiet pattern of wifely neglect and its costs, shadowing the younger women's choices.

## In the story

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

Visits Mamma, restless and jealous, still in love with Victor.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/ii)

Margaret's sister-in-law, who advises her to join in Victor's pleasures or risk losing him.

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

Takes up spiritualism and claims to communicate with Papa, which unsettles Aunt Priscilla.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_perennial_bachelor_se/chapters/vii)

Criticizes Mamma's extravagance, while herself adopting unconventional fashions; her marriage to Sam is unhappy.

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