# Mrs. Ellersley — There Is Confusion character guide

> Mrs. Ellersley in There Is Confusion by Jessie Redmon Fauset.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mrs. Ellersley

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Who they are

Maggie's mother, a kind and anxious woman concerned for her daughter.

## In the story

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/there_is_confusion_se/chapters/viii)

Maggie's mother, a laundress and widow, moves with Maggie to a better tenement and runs a rooming house. She is hardworking but resigned to poverty, though she believes Maggie might find a way out.

### [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/there_is_confusion_se/chapters/xxv)

Maggie's mother, who lives a prosy life with Mis' Sparrow and attends lodge meetings.

### [XXXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/there_is_confusion_se/chapters/xxxi)

Maggie's mother, who cares for her during her illness.

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