# Mother — Years of Grace character guide

> Mother in Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Snapshot

Presiding over the breakfast table in a crisp white dressing-sack, Jane's mother polices manners and, more quietly, the social geography of her daughter's friendships.

## Who they are

She sits behind the coffee tray, her pretty, proud little head held high above the silver urn, her eyes wandering competently over the table — a woman who reads her household the way she reads a room. Her tranquil rebuke of Jane's table manners carries a sharper edge when the name Agnes Johnson comes up, since Agnes lives west of Lincoln Park and her mother works in an office, something unforgivable in her eyes. She approves wholeheartedly of Flora and Muriel, whose Rush Street and Huron addresses suit her ambitions. Her quiet calculus of who Jane should walk to school with shapes the world her daughter is learning to navigate.

## Relationships

### [Jane Ward](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/years_of_grace_se/characters/jane_ward)

_family_

Jane's mother is a nurturing but sometimes traditional figure in her life, influencing her decisions.

### [Jane Ward](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/years_of_grace_se/characters/jane_ward)

_family_

Jane's mother is a nurturing but sometimes traditional figure in her life, influencing her decisions.

### [Jane Ward](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/years_of_grace_se/characters/jane_ward)

_family_

Jane's mother is a nurturing but sometimes traditional figure in her life, influencing her decisions.

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