Unnamed "Brassy-Haired" Woman

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2015-11-21 10:28
Text: 
The Reivers
Character Key: 
Unnamed "Brassy-Haired" Woman
Display Name: 
Unnamed "Brassy-Haired" Woman
Sort Name: 
Unnamed "Brassy-Haired" Woman
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Sales and Service
Specific Job: 
Hotel Keeper
First Mentioned: 
Rouncewell's Boarding House|Commercial Hotel in The Reivers (Location)
Biography: 

One of Jefferson's more colorful residents, and not just because of her "brassy" (or orange-red) hair (25). Coming "from nowhere" and staying only "briefly," during the 1930s she transforms the "Snopes Hotel" into a place known to "the police" as "Little Chicago" (254). Presumably Lucius' reference to her as a "gentlewoman" is ironic (25): given Chicago's association in the popular mind at that time with the underworld, her boarding house must have been a fairly wild place.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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