Corrine Foxworth

Joel Foxworth

Carrie Dollanganger

Cory Dollanganger

Corrine Foxworth is the youngest child and only daughter of Malcolm Foxworth and Alicia. She is described to favor her mother's appearance but quite flirtatious and selfish.

## Garden of Shadows

The fifth book of the series that serves as a prequel to *Flowers in the Attic, Garden of Shadows* details the events of the marriage of Olivia Winfield and Malcolm Foxworth. The book leads into the events that result in Corrine's birth by Malcolm and his step-mother, Alicia, through the act of non consensual intercourse. Going through Corrine's childhood, through the eyes of Olivia, we learn that Corrine was close to her brothers but very spoiled by Malcolm. After the deaths of her brothers, Corrine is told that her half-uncle will be joining them at Foxworth Hall. It is later revealed upon Christopher's graduation from college and Corrine's graduation from high school, that the two had become lovers. Corrine and Christopher, never hearing the full truth of why Olivia and Malcolm condemned their relationship, fled Foxworth Hall. It is revealed at the end of the book that Corrine and Christopher had changed their surname to Dollanganger and had four children.

## Flowers in the Attic

Corrine is a happy housewife and loving mother to Christopher, Cathy, and twins, Carrie and Cory. Everything is wonderful for her until the fateful night that her husband, Christopher, is killed in a car accident. With huge debt and no real skills to find employment, Corrine begins to write to her parents to take her and her children in. After many letters, Corrine finally receives a reply and instructs the children to pack a suitcase.

After arriving at Foxworth Hall in the dead of night, the children are ushered up to an upstairs bedroom by their mother and grandmother, Olivia Winfield Foxworth. The next day, Corrine shows the children that she was whipped for her sin with their father and forced to explain what the sin was. Corrine tells her children that she intends to win her father's favor and introduce him to his grandchildren. She promises it will only be a few days.

In the beginning, Corrine was good about visiting her children. It wasn't until after Christmas that her visits become few and far between and she becomes verbally abusive. When Corrine finally does come to visit six months after Christmas, she reveals that she married Bart Winslow, her father's attorney. The last visit that Corrine has with her children is when she is called to take Cory to the hospital after getting sick and then returning to tell them that Cory had passed away at the hospital. After this, Corrine leaves Foxworth Hall with her new husband and disregards the children completely.

It is revealed by Christopher to his sister Cathy that Christopher had found a copy of the grandfather's will and that their mother's inheritance was conditional that she have no children from her first marriage. This hints that the donuts that they children were being given, and got Cory deathly ill, was actually sent up by Corrine and not the grandmother, who originally told the children not to eat the sweets from the first night they arrived.

## Petals in the Wind

Most of the story, Corrine is only mentioned and seen a couple of times before the major event at the end of the book. With vengeance in her heart, Cathy admits that she sent stalker-like letters to her mother to remind her that three of them were still alive.

A few years after the children had escaped the attic, Carrie became engaged to a young man who reveals that he plans to be a minister. Carrie explains her fear to Cathy about this, remembering what their grandmother had told them day in and day out about being "Devil's Spawn". Carrie later attempts suicide with powdered donuts lace with arsenic. In the hospital, she reveals to Cathy that the real reason for the attempt is because she saw Corrine on the street, ran up to her excited, and was denied by her. When Carrie dies, Cathy becomes resolved to ruin her mother for good.

At the annual Christmas Ball at Foxworth Hall, Cathy reveals herself to Corrine and her guests as Corrine's daughter, Bart's mistress, and that she is pregnant with Bart's child. This is also when Corrine lies about the whereabouts of Cory's body. Cathy accuses that she placed him in a small room off of the attic while Corrine states that she placed the body in a ditch.

After the accusations and confrontation, Corrine has a mental break and sets fire to Foxworth Hall. While Cathy, Chris, and Corrine were able to escape; Bart and Olivia were trapped in the fire and died. Corrine is committed to the mental institution.

It is revealed that Cathy and Chris move to California living as Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield with Cathy's two sons, Jory Marquet and Bart Sheffield.

## If There Be Thorns

Corrine is revealed to have been released from the mental institution and living next door to Cathy and Chris in California. It is also revealed that she has been having a relationship with Jory and Bart. Bart also friends the butler, John Amos. After Bart becomes destructive and mean from reading his great-grandfather's journal, the truth of Cathy and Chris come out to their sons.

When Cathy finds out the truth about Corrine, they begin to fight. They are knocked out by John Amos and locked in the cellar with the assistance of Bart. After finding out what John Amos's plan is, Bart goes to tell Chris were Corrine and Cathy are. Arriving after the cellar is set on fire, Bart is able to open the cellar door but told to leave by Corrine. Corrine is able to rescue Cathy but as she tries to escape, her clothes catch fire. Chris runs to put out the fire but Corrine dies from her heart giving out.

In Corrine's will, Bart inherits from Corrine and Christopher is named as the trustee.