Holt, Mrs. Mary

Mother of Felix; a foolish, ignorant, and loquacious woman. "She was a tall elderly woman, dresssed in black, with a lightbrown front and a black band over her forehead . . . Mrs. Holt was not given to tears; she was much sustained by conscious unimpeachableness, and by an argumentative tendency which usually checks the too great activity of the lachrymal gland." When Felix makes her give up the sale of the worthless medicines by which she has supported herself, she feels deeply injured and never loses an opportunity to talk of this and of her son's obstinacy in giving up what she considers a more genteel position to become a watchmaker.

<em>Felix Holt, the Radical</em>

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