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A woman who lives across the street from the cemetery where Willie Lincoln is interred. Saunders quotes from Isabelle’s (fictive) letter to her brother, in which she explains seeing not only Willie’s funeral procession, but also the president himself exiting the graveyard late at night. Isabelle is quite sickly, though she’s a young woman, and so she has trouble sleeping. As such, she waits up while sitting by the window, where she can see the cemetery and, in the foreground, the groundskeeper’s house, where Manders lives.
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Isabelle Perkins Character Timeline in Lincoln in the Bardo
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Chapter 7
In a letter to her brother, Isabelle Perkins —a woman who lives across the street from the cemetery— describes seeing Willie Lincoln’s funeral...
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Chapter 59
Still writing to her brother, Isabelle Perkins notes that she must have fallen asleep. Waking up and resuming her letter, she guesses...
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Chapter 98
Isabelle Perkins includes a post-script in her letter to her brother, saying that she saw President Lincoln...
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Chapter 99
...logbook, Manders confirms that Lincoln has finally left the cemetery. He notes that he saw Isabelle Perkins in her house as he locked the gate, saying that she called out to ask...
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