Jack Torrance’s mother

And one night, at the dinner table, he used that cane on his wife. No reason; he just started in whaling. He broke her nose and opened her scalp. When she fell out of her chair onto the floor, he got up and really went to work on her.

The remembered victim of Jack’s father’s cane attack; same family role as the established The Shining record.

… drawing to its end he had become aware that Becky and his brothers, all of them older, hated the father and that their mother, a nondescript woman who rarely spoke above a mutter, only suffered him because her Catholic upbringing said that she must. In those days it had not seemed strange to Jack that the father won all his arguments with his children by use of his fists, and it had not seemed strange …

Catholic mother stays with abusive husband and corroborates his false account of her injuries while holding a priest’s hand. Her personal name is not supplied.