Mrs. John Sartoris
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Mrs. John Sartoris
Sort Name:
Sartoris, Wife of John
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Dead
Family:
Sartoris
Family (new):
First Mentioned:
Biography:
Colonel Sartoris' wife and (Old) Bayard's mother is a very elusive figure. In this novel she only appears in Simon's account of Bayard's birth, when he describes the slaves from the quarters coming up to the big house to wish "Mistis en de little marster well" (392). In The Unvanquished John marries his cousin Drusilla Hawk some years after the Civil War, but that novel does not shed any more light on the identity of his first wife.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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