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Mrs. Lovett
Mrs. Lovett is a fictional character appearing in many adaptations of the story ''Sweeney Todd''. She is most commonly referred to as Nellie, although Margery, Maggie, Sarah, Shirley, Wilhemina and Claudetta are other names she has been given. First appearing in the penny dreadful serial ''The String of Pearls'', it is debated if she was based on an actual person or not.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Sweeney Todd: Fresh Meat Pies )〕 The character also appears in modern media related to ''Sweeney Todd'' including the Stephen Sondheim musical and its 2007 film adaptation.
== Character overview ==
In every version of the story in which she appears, Mrs. Lovett is the business partner and accomplice of barber/serial killer Sweeney Todd; in some versions, she is also his lover. She makes and sells meat pies made from Todd's victims.
Usually, Mrs. Lovett is depicted as a childless widow, although in some depictions (but very rarely) Mr. Albert Lovett is shown. Before she goes into business with Todd, she is on the verge of poverty, with her premises being filthy and infested with vermin. In the musical she has resorted to using a rather revolting substitute for meat, and laments her pies are the worst ones in London. While she feels no remorse about killing people and serving them as pies, she is sometimes shown to have a softer side to those in need; for example, she informally adopts the young orphan Tobias Ragg as her own, and considers taking in Todd's daughter Johanna as well.
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