Unnamed Jailer's Daughter
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Unnamed Jailer's Daughter
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Unnamed Jailer's Daughter
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Cecelia Farmer
Celia Cook
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Dead
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Biography:
The daughter of the man who was the county jailer in 1864 is the heroine of a romantic vignette. Struck by the appearance of a "ragged unshaven lieutenant" who is leading a defeated Confederate unit past the jail, this "young girl of that time" writes her name with a diamond in "one of the panes of the fanlight beside the door"; "six months later" they are married (49). (This story expands a similar story in The Unvanquished, where the girl is named Celia Cook; Faulkner tells it again, and shifts it to the beginning of the Civil War, in Requiem for a Nun, where her name is Cecelia Farmer. The story is supposedly based on a real-life incident in Faulkner's home town, Oxford.)
Individual or Group:
Individual
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