Character Profile: "The Spinster Aunt"

The "Spinster Aunt" is a female character who often replaces the mother in the story. Fourties or fifties in age, bossy, realistic and "delightfully crusty" in temperment. Click on the show name for more detailed information about each character.

Aunt Eller, Oklahoma

Auntie Em, The Wizard of Oz

Marilla, Anne of Green Gables

Aunt Alicia, Gigi

Aunt Polly, Tom Sawyer

Maude Simpson, Redhead