Alice Edmonds
Character Key Number:
154
Display Name:
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.)