Lorena Wood Parker

Lorena Wood Parker is a fictional character who appears in two of the novels and films in the Lonesome Dove series She first appears in Lonesome Dove, the first book published, but the third chronologically. Lorena was orphaned by the time she was seventeen. Her father, who had begun to sexually abuse her, died in Vicksburg, and her mother in Baton Rouge. Shortly afterwards, she met a man named Mosby Marlin. Though obviously a drunk, she was willing to believe his claim to be a Southern Gentleman, so she went with him to the town of Gladewater. Though he claimed to be willing to marry her, he truly wasn't, and she suffered greatly at the hands of Mosby's mother and sisters. Though Mosby himself didn't get treated much better, he swore...