Mother Shipton

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Mother Shipton is a hardened yet ultimately self-sacrificing prostitute and one of the exiled figures in Bret Harte’s short story “The Outcasts of Poker Flat.”

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
short story character
appearsInGenre American local color fiction
Western fiction
associatedWithCharacter Duchess
John Oakhurst NERFINISHED
Piney Woods NERFINISHED
Tom Simson NERFINISHED
Uncle Billy NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath starvation
characterInWork The Outcasts of Poker Flat NERFINISHED
createdBy Bret Harte NERFINISHED
describedAs hardened
self‑sacrificing
diesIn Sierra Nevada mountains (fictional setting) NERFINISHED
exiledFrom Poker Flat NERFINISHED
fictionalUniverse The Outcasts of Poker Flat universe
firstAppearance The Outcasts of Poker Flat NERFINISHED
firstPublicationYear 1869
gender female
groupAffiliation the outcasts of Poker Flat NERFINISHED
literaryTheme redemption
self‑sacrifice
social ostracism
moralArc redeems herself through self‑sacrifice
nationality American (fictional)
notableAction starves herself to save food for Piney Woods
occupation prostitute
roleInPlot one of the exiled figures from Poker Flat

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