Years of Grace · Character
Mumsy
Jane's affectionate name for her mother, the proud, immaculate mistress of the Ward breakfast table whose social judgments quietly shape her daughters' world.
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Mumsy presides behind the coffee tray in her crisp white dressing-sack, correcting Jane's table manners and steering her toward the right friends, Flora and Muriel, and away from the unacceptable Agnes Johnson. Her…
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Flora’s admission that she has sold the shop and closed the house, coupled with her confession that she “didn’…
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