Great Aunt of Charles Mallison
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Great Aunt of Charles Mallison
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Stevens, Great Aunt of Charles
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
Charles Mallison's "great aunt" is one of several "aunts" in the canon that are hard to place on a family tree. She is mentioned in "Knight's Gambit," in a sentence about Mrs. Harriss: she has "spent ten years among what his great-aunt would have called the crowned heads of Europe" (168). There's no way to tell from the story, or from the larger history of the Stevens family in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, if she is related to Charles' mother or his father.