Aunt Sally Phelps

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fictional character literary character

Aunt Sally Phelps is a kind but strict Southern woman who serves as Tom Sawyer’s aunt and mistakenly takes Huck Finn for her nephew in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

Statements (36)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fictional character → literary character →
appearsIn	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn →
appearsInChapter	the Phelps farm episodes of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn →
associatedWithTheme	Southern society → family → morality → slavery →
auntOf	Tom Sawyer →
characterTrait	kind → maternal → religious → strict →
creator	Mark Twain →
ethnicity	white American →
fictionalLocation	American South →
firstAppearance	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn →
gender	female →
guardianOf	Huckleberry Finn → Tom Sawyer →
languageOfWork	English →
mistakes	Huckleberry Finn for Tom Sawyer →
nationality	American →
publisherOfWork	Charles L. Webster and Company (US, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) → Chatto & Windus (UK, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) →
relativeOf	Tom Sawyer →
residence	Arkansas → Phelps farm →
roleInWork	Huck Finn’s temporary guardian → Tom Sawyer’s aunt →
spouse	Silas Phelps →
timePeriod	pre–Civil War era →
workOfFictionGenre	picaresque novel → satirical novel →
yearOfWorkPublication	1884 → 1885 →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Tom Sawyer universe → Tom Sawyer, Detective →	featuresCharacter
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn →	hasCharacter
Silas Phelps →	spouse