# Miss Jemima Pinkerton — Vanity Fair character guide

> Miss Jemima Pinkerton in Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** sister Jemima, Jemima, poor Jemima

**First appearance:** 0001-i-chiswick-mall

## Who they are

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

## In the story

### [I: Chiswick Mall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vanity_fair_se/chapters/i-chiswick-mall)

Good-natured sister; timid, tries to give Becky a Dictionary but is overruled.

### [In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vanity_fair_se/chapters/ii-in-which-miss-sharp-and-miss-sedley-prepare-to-open-the-campaign)

Witnesses Rebecca's defiant act of throwing the dictionary.

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