Ghita, Monna

Tessa's mother, a peasant woman who sells vegetables in the Mercato Vecchio. "She was a stout but brawny woman, with a man's jerkin slipped over her green serge gamurra or gown, and the peaked hood of some departed mantle fastened round her sun-burnt face, which, under all its coarseness and premature wrinkles, showed a half-sad, half-ludicrous maternal resemblance to the tender babyface of the little maiden."

<em>Romola</em>

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