Mrs. Curry is the mother of Michael Curry, a major character in Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy.[1]
Description[]
Mrs. Curry is a patient person raised in high society very different from her married life. She "kept in check the disgust she felt for the habits of those around her." Her son, Michael, described her as having "no dreams, no great plans, no true creative force." She was not a flexible person.[1]
Biography[]
Born and raised in San Francisco, she meets and marries Tim Curry, moving to his hometown of New Orleans with him. They live in a small double cottage next door to his parents in the Irish Channel neighborhood. His was the third generation to live in their house. She loves taking long walks, especially through the Garden District. She understood houses and when Michael was very small, she began taking him on walks through the Garden District. A house she dearly loved was the house on First Street that her son would later live in with his wife. She attends mass at St. Alphonsus and one time in the late 1940s, she sees Lasher in the church and acts fearful.
She instills a love of film in her son by taking him on the streetcar downtown to the Civic Theater for Saturday matinees.
In about the summer of 1968, her husband dies fighting a fire on Tchoupitoulas Street. After this, she moves back to San Francisco to be with her family.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (Part One: Chapter One)