Unnamed Young Northern Woman

Character Key Number: 
3206
Display Name: 
Unnamed Young Northern Woman
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Young Northern Woman
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

Requiem for a Nun's narrator creates this 'character' as a point of reference. As part of his description of Jefferson's "Female Academy," he mentions a hypothetical "young female from Long Island or Philadelphia" who receives an invitation "signed by Queen Victoria" (177).