Jenny Du Pre
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Jenny Du Pre
Sort Name:
Du Pre, Jenny
AKA:
Virginia Sartoris
Aunt Jenny
Genevieve Du Pre
Virginia Du Pre
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Major
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Sartoris
Family (new):
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Tuesday, January 1, 1839 to Tuesday, December 31, 1839
Origin:
Carolina
Other Texts:
Biography:
The younger sister of Colonel John Sartoris, Jenny married a man named Du Pre, who was killed in the Civil War. In 1869 she made her own way from Carolina to Mississippi to live with her brother's family, bringing with her "a straw-filled hamper" containing pieces of colored glass from the family's ancestral mansion (10) and tales of Sartoris daring. Indomitable and strong-willed, she comes to run the Sartoris household and outlives all of the Sartoris men except for Benbow Sartoris, her great-great-grandnephew. While she acts exasperated with the line of Sartoris males, she in fact dotes upon them or their memories, turning their actions into the stuff of myth and legend.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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