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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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- Minor characters and servants
- Social climbers and soldiers
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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This is the dramatic climax because it marks the psychological breaking point for Jos Sedley, whose cowardice…
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