Cornelia Van Hofwegen

New York - MCMXXX

Addressed As

Overgrootmoeder / Great Grandmother / Anouska

Appearance

An elderly woman of fragile appearance bound to a wheelchair and clothed in the finest Victorian garb and drenched in antique jewelry.

Background

Cornelia Van Hofwegen was born in 1832. The youngest of several children born to the shipping tycoon Wendel Van Hofwegen and his wife Ambrosine Astor-Van Hofwegen. Despite her youth and sex,

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