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Brady, Virginia (Jenny) (b. 1837?), mentioned as Clemens’s classmate in “Villagers” (95), was the daughter of carpenter James Brady, Hannibal’s first mayor. Her brother Norval (b. 1839) was an occasional playmate of Clemens’s. Mark Twain’s working notes show that he considered portraying her as Jenny Mason in “Schoolhouse Hill” (MSM, 431), but that character does not appear in the story (Marion Census 1850, 308; Holcombe, 941; Wecter 1952, 141; Sweets 1986–87, 1).
