Mrs. Elmer Ford, sometimes-divorced wife of prec., named
Ruth in The Eighteen-Carat Kid, Nesta in The Little Nugget and in
Piccadilly Jim, where she is two
years married to Peter Pett, Elmer Ford having perished
suddenly of an apoplectic seizure. A tall, formidably
handsome woman, originally from Mechanicsville, Illinois, more
recently from New York and smothered in furs. Author of
sensational fiction, e.g. A Society Thug. The type of woman
whom small, diffident men seem to marry instinctively, as
unable to help themselves as cockleshell boats sucked into a
maelstrom. Protective mother of Ogden; aunt of Willie Partridge
in Piccadilly Jim. Her sister Eugenia is Mrs. Bingley Crocker in
Piccadilly Jim.
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