Mrs. Fisher: The Victorian Relic

From The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
The elderly Mrs. Fisher lives in the past with her memories of literary Victorian giants. She represents calcified propriety until San Salvatore thaws her.
Chapter 3

Mrs. Fisher's introduction, name-dropping Carlyle, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, and Tennyson, who 'patted her on the head.'

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Chapter 10

Mrs. Fisher in the battlements with her stick, beginning to feel the strange green shoots of renewal within her — her thaw.

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