Amanda Workitt Gowrie
Character Key Number:
2896
Display Name:
Amanda Workitt Gowrie
Sort Name:
Gowrie, Amanda Workitt
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Mrs. Gowrie, born Amanda Workitt, is Nub's wife and the mother of his six sons in Intruder in the Dust. She is buried in the cemetery next to Caledonia chapel, and from her headstone we learn that she was born in 1878 and died in 1926 (99). That is all the novel explicitly says about her, but "Workitt" appears in the novel on the list of the most common family names in Beat Four (28).