Unnamed Hardwick Jailer's Wife
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1359
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Unnamed Hardwick Jailer's Wife
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Unnamed Hardwick Jailer's Wife
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
When Boon and Butch are taken to jail in Hardwich in The Reivers, Reba and Corrie stay in "the jailor's wife's room" (270). The phrasing suggests that, like the jailer in Jefferson in other fictions, this couple lives in the building that holds the jail.