Inside the story
Meet Mrs Brady
Elizabeth's maternal grandmother, a hardworking Philadelphia washerwoman who is practical, outspoken, and strongly concerned with financial survival and social respectability.
On the page
an elderly woman, broad, plump, and well-cushioned, with an ample bosom, plump arms, and neatly combed gray hair. Her face is careworn and forbidding; she wears a calico wrapper open at the throat, a gingham apron, and glasses for reading.








