Melissa Hogganbeck
Character Key Number:
2974
Display Name:
Melissa Hogganbeck
Sort Name:
Hogganbeck, Melissa
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Melissa Hogganbeck is a history teacher at the Jefferson Academy that Charles Mallison attends in "Knight's Gambit." Her "tireless cultured educated 'lady's' voice" makes it hard for him to endure the class which she "now called World Affairs with capitals on both” (209). She also teaches American History before 1865 at "the Academy" to Linda Snopes in The Town (301). If either she or her grandfather, who is also mentioned in the novel, are related to Boon Hogganbeck, who appears in seven Yoknapatawpha fictions, the texts give no hint of it.