# Mrs. O'Dowd — Vanity Fair character guide

> Mrs. O'Dowd in Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mrs. Major O'Dowd, Peggy, the excellent Mrs. O'Dowd

**First appearance:** 0027-xxvii-in-which-amelia-joins-her-regiment

## Who they are

Major O'Dowd's formidable, talkative Irish wife who mothers the young officers.

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