Melisandre Backus Harriss
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Melisandre Backus Harriss
Sort Name:
Harriss, Melisandre Backus
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Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Family (new):
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Biography:
Melisandre Backus is the daughter and only child of a man who owns "one of our biggest plantations" (217). As a young woman she was a kind of romantic interest and protege of Gavin Stevens, but although she is "a shy girl," she marries a "New Orleans underworld bigshot named Harris" with whom she has two children (216). By the end of the novel, however, she and Gavin are married.
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CUT: A one time devotional interest of Gavin Stevens. He later ends up marrying her in what is largely a marriage of convenience.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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