Mrs. Shaw

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Mrs. Shaw is a wealthy, fashionable Boston matron in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl," whose refined but somewhat shallow household contrasts with the simple virtues of the story’s heroine.

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Mrs. Shaw canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Boston matron
fictional character
literary character
appearsIn An Old-Fashioned Girl
belongsToSocialClass Boston elite
upper class
contrastsWith Polly Milton
createdBy Louisa May Alcott
deemphasizes domestic simplicity
frugality
plain living
familyName Shaw
firstPublicationContext An Old-Fashioned Girl
surface form: An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869, 1870 expanded edition)
gender female
genreContext 19th-century American domestic fiction
hasAttribute fashionable
refined
somewhat shallow
wealthy
hasChild Fanny Shaw
Frank Shaw
Maud Shaw NERFINISHED
hasResidence Boston
hasSpouse Mr. Shaw
hasThemeRelation contrast between old-fashioned and modern manners
critique of superficial social values
householdCharacterization fashionable
refined
worldly
livesInHousehold Shaw household
nationalityInFiction American
roleInWork foil to Polly Milton
representative of fashionable society
setInPeriod 19th-century Boston
values fashion
social status
worldly success
worldviewContrastsWith simple virtues of Polly Milton

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Fanny Shaw hasParent Mrs. Shaw