This document summarizes the female characters portrayed in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. It discusses the roles and descriptions of several major women characters, including Nancy, Agnes Fleming, Mrs. Maylie, Mrs. Corney, Mrs. Bedwin, Mrs. Mann, and Mrs. Sowerberry. Nancy is described as a complicated minor character who helps Oliver but is ultimately murdered by her lover Bill Sikes. Agnes Fleming is established as Oliver's absent mother. Mrs. Maylie is a kind and wealthy woman who cares for Rose. Mrs. Corney and Mrs. Mann are depicted as cruel and neglectful toward children in their care at the workhouse and orphanage.

1. Topic:- Discuss The Portrait of
Woman Character in Oliver Twist
• Name:-Kails Gohil
• Roll No:- 14
• Paper No:- 6(The Victorian Literature)
• Email ID:- kailasgohil1998@gmail.com
• Submitted By:-Dr. Dilip Barad
• SMT: S.B.Gardi Maharaja
Krishanakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2. About Author…..
• Charles John Huffam
Dickens.
• (7th February 1812-9th
June 1870) was an
English writer and social
ctitic.
• He created some of the
world’s best known
fictional characters and is
regarded by many as the
greatest novelist of the
Victorian Era.

3. About Novel……
• Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s
Progress is Charles Dickens’s second
novel , and was first published as a
serial 1837-39. The story centers on
orphan Oliver Twist, born in a
workhouse and sold in to
apprenticeship with an undertaker.

4. The Portrait of Woman Character in
Oliver Twist
Nancy
Agnes
Fleming Mrs.Maylie

5. Woman Character…….
Mrs.Corney
Mrs.Bedwin Mrs.Soweberry

6. The Portrait of woman character in
“Oliver Twist’
Nancy
Agnes Fleming
Mrs. Maylie
Mrs. Corney
Mrs. Bedwin
Mrs. Soweberry
Mrs. Mann
Mrs. Thingummy

7. Agnes Fleming……..
• Absent character of the novel
• Having good appear
• Fall in love with her father’s friend
when she was just 19th year old.
• Got Pregnant before marriage
• Run away from home to avoid
shaming.
• Oliver Twist’s mother

8. Nancy….
 Complicated and Fictional Character
 Minore but important character
 17th year old
 Some time behaves Hysterical
 Beloved of Bill Sikes.
 She has a good heart and helps Oliver
 Sadly ,Nancy is murdered by Sikes
toward the end of the novel.

9. Mrs. Maylie…….
 A kind, Wealthy
 Older Woman
 The mother of Harry Maylie and
adoptive aunt of rose.
 She is Miss Rose’s Guardian

10. Mrs. Corney….
• Mrs. Corney, Later Mrs. Bumble,
• She is Matron of workhouse where
Oliver is born
• She is Hypocritical, callous, and
materialistic.
• She is hounds him mercilessly…

11. Mrs. Bedwin……….
 She is housekeeper of mr. Brownlow
 She is a kind and motherly old lady ,
who take of a oliver in his illness.
 Mrs. Bedwin Bumble’s negative
report of Oliver’s Character..

12. Mrs. Mann……
 She runs the orphanage where Oliver
grows up.
 She keeps herself most money allotted
by the parish for the care the of
orphans and them neglects rather
steadily.
 She Physically abuses and half-starves
the children in her care.

13. Mrs. Sowerberry……
 Sowerberry’s wife.
 Mrs. Sowerberry is a mean,
judgmental eoman who henpecks
her husband..

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