This is a picture of Thomas Wolfe at about age nine with his mother, Julia Wolfe. She is portrayed as Eliza Gant in Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River.

"...noting her milky white skin, her black-brown eyes, with their quaint child's stare, and her jet black hair drawn back tightly from her high white forehead. She had a curious trick of pursing her lips reflectively before she spoke; she liked to take her time, and came to the point after interminable divagations down all the lane-ends of memory and overtone, feasting upon the golden pageant of all she had ever said, done, felt, thought, seen, or replied, with egocentric delight."