davetta sherwood was lily from once upon a time.
davetta sherwood was lily from once upon a time.
who is lily from once upon a time?
davetta sherwood
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mrs. peniston (julia)—lily's wealthy, widowed aunt –sister to lily's father. mrs. peniston embodies "old school" morality and has a family pedigree that goes back to the industrious and successful dutch families of early new york. although she maintains an opulent residence on fashionable fifth avenue, she does not follow fashion or renovate constantly to maintain a chic appearance. in lily's eyes, the peniston home is therefore dingy. mrs. peniston's "old new york" lifestyle requires keeping her drawing room neat, eating well and dressing expensively. she harbors a passive attitude and does not actively engage in life. although she spends time in the country during the first part of the book, by the last half of the book she is a shut-in with significant heart problems. when lily arrived in new york in financial distress after the death of her mother, mrs. peniston took pleasure in the public display of her generosity by agreeing to take lily on for a year after her mother died—much to the relief of the extended family. she found, to her surprise, that she liked the volatile lily. she therefore continued to support lily for over a decade during lily's fruitless search for a wealthy, socially connected husband. she indulges and passively enables lily's habit of gallivanting with her fashionable friends, and ignores the way lily avoids and abandons her. although lily is clearly julia's favorite, displacing her previous favorite grace stepney, julia never makes any verbal or written promise to provide for lily in the long term. although lily and her friends believe that is "understood" that she will inherit most if not all of julia's fortune, julia herself never made such a statement. indeed, her forbearance is stretched to the limit when rumors reach her that lily gambles for money and is encouraging attention from married men who compensate her for it. as upset as julia is by evidence of lily's immoral behavior, she does not immediately ask lily for details because it is easier to discredit the messenger. when lily comes to julia asking for money to pay various debts, including what lily passes off as gambling debts, julia refuses. the relationship is permanently damaged, and when lily sails away with the dorsets instead of cleaning up the social and financial mess she has made, julia does not write to lily or attempt to repair the relationship. when word reaches her that lily has been publicly accused of having an affair with george dorset, and when lily continues to gallivant in europe instead of returning home, julia disinherits lily in favor of the more loyal grace stepney. by the time lily returns to new york, julia has died, and nobody knows about the disinheritance until her will is read.
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