# Marie St. Clare — Uncle Tom’s Cabin character guide > Marie St. Clare in Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. **Role:** supporting **Also known as:** Marie, Miss Marie, old Missis **First appearance:** 0014-volume-i-xv-of-tom-s-new-master-and-various-other-matters ## Snapshot A faded Southern belle turned chronic invalid, she exacts love like a debt and rules her household through complaint rather than care. ## Who they are Marie St. Clare presides over a New Orleans household where her sick-headaches and imagined ailments dictate everyone's schedule but her own. Once a blooming belle, she now resents her husband's devotion to their daughter Eva and treats the enslaved people around her with casual cruelty. Her bottomless demand for sympathy exposes how slavery corrupts even the women it supposedly protects, setting the moral stage for the St. Clare chapters. ## Relationships ### [Eva St. Clare](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/characters/eva_st_clare) _family_ Eva is the beloved but spiritually distant daughter of the self-absorbed and hypochondriac Marie. ### [Uncle Tom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/characters/uncle_tom) _professional_ Marie is Tom's self-centered and neglectful mistress after Augustine's death, viewing Tom as a mere servant to be managed. ### [Mammy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/characters/mammy) _professional_ Mammy is Marie's long-suffering enslaved maid, enduring Marie's constant complaints and demands with weary patience. ### [Eva St. Clare](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/characters/eva_st_clare) _family_ Eva is the beloved but spiritually distant daughter of the self-absorbed and hypochondriac Marie. ### [Eva St. Clare](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/characters/eva_st_clare) _family_ Eva is the beloved but spiritually distant daughter of the self-absorbed and hypochondriac Marie. ### [Mammy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/characters/mammy) _professional_ Mammy is Marie's long-suffering enslaved maid, enduring Marie's constant complaints and demands with weary patience. ### [Uncle Tom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/characters/uncle_tom) _professional_ Marie is Tom's self-centered and neglectful mistress after Augustine's death, viewing Tom as a mere servant to be managed. ### [Uncle Tom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/characters/uncle_tom) _professional_ Marie is Tom's self-centered and neglectful mistress after Augustine's death, viewing Tom as a mere servant to be managed. ### [Mammy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/characters/mammy) _professional_ Mammy is Marie's long-suffering enslaved maid, enduring Marie's constant complaints and demands with weary patience. ## In the story ### [XV: Of Tom’s New Master, and Various Other Matters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/chapters/volume-i-xv-of-tom-s-new-master-and-various-other-matters) Augustine's wife, a beautiful but intensely selfish and hypochondriac woman who resents her husband's attention to their daughter Eva. ### [Tom's Mistress and Her Opinions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/chapters/volume-i-xvi-tom-s-mistress-and-her-opinions) Marie complains about her slaves, especially Mammy, and expresses selfishness and lack of empathy. She defends slavery as necessary for her comfort. ### [Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions Continued](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/chapters/volume-ii-xix-miss-ophelia-s-experiences-and-opinions-continued) Dismisses sympathy for Prue, claiming her own trials are greater; defends harsh treatment of slaves. ### [XXII: “The Grass Withereth—The Flower Fadeth”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxii-the-grass-withereth-the-flower-fadeth) Marie dismisses Eva's concerns about educating the enslaved, citing social norms and her own headaches. She shows Eva a diamond necklace, planning for her future in society. ### [XXIV: Foreshadowings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxiv-foreshadowings) Marie remains self-centered, dismissing Eva's illness and focusing on her own imagined sufferings. ### [The Little Evangelist](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxv-the-little-evangelist) Complains of heart trouble and advocates harsh punishment for Topsy. ### [XXVI: Death](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxvi-death) Eva's mother, who is self-centered and prone to hysterics, complaining of her own health. ### [XXVII: “This Is the Last of Earth”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxvii-this-is-the-last-of-earth) Self-absorbed in her grief, she criticizes St. Clare's lack of visible emotion. ### [The Unprotected](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxix-the-unprotected) Reveals her unfeeling and tyrannical character after her husband's death, ordering whippings and planning to sell the slaves. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/characters/marie_st_clare - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/characters