Alice Edmonds

Character Key Number: 
154
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Alice Edmonds
Sort Name: 
Edmonds, Alice
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

Alice is the wife of McCaslin (Cass) Edmonds and the mother of Zack Edmonds. She is mentioned only once in Go Down, Moses: "[Cass'] wife Alice had taught Fonsiba to read and write too a little" (263). (However, in the earlier chapter titled "The Fire and the Hearth," the narrative claims that it was Ike's mother, Sophonsiba, who taught the Beauchamp children to read, 106.)

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