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Madame Lyalikova
also: госпожа Ляликова, Ляликова
Liza's mother and, since her husband's death, the nominal owner of the five-block Lyalikov mills; a simple, barely literate woman whose helpless devotion to her daughter cannot reach the source of Liza's unhappiness.
Reading notes
- A Case from Practice §7 Madame Lyalikova
Liza's mother, a stout, simple, barely literate woman who has been the nominal head of the mills since her husband's death; her anxious deference to the doctor, and her inability to comfort her own daughter, run through the whole visit.