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Miss Jemima Pinkerton

Miss Pinkerton's kind but timid younger sister who helps run the school.

minor

Also known as sister Jemima, Jemima, poor Jemima

First appearance: I: Chiswick Mall

Miss Jemima Pinkerton shows up with force in I: Chiswick Mall. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Good-natured sister; timid, tries to give Becky a Dictionary but is overruled.
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In I: Chiswick Mall: Good-natured sister; timid, tries to give Becky a Dictionary but is overruled. Later, in In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign: Witnesses Rebecca's defiant act of…

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GOGlorvina O'DowdSASamboSPSir Pitt CrawleyJSJoseph SedleyLJLady Jane Craw…MJMiss Jemima Pinkerton

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  • Other

Character groups

  • Minor characters and servants
  • Social climbers and soldiers

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  • Closing

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