Laura Murray

Laura Murray
Biographical information
Also known as	Aunt Laura Laura Murray Bowles Mrs. Bowles
Physical information
Gender	Female
Eye colour	Blue
Skin colour	Fair
Family information
Family members	Parents Archibald Murray (father) Archibald Murray's wife (mother) Siblings Elizabeth Murray (sister) Ruth Dutton (sister) Oliver Murray (brother) Addie Murray (sister) Eva Murray (sister) Wallace Murray (brother) Juliet Murray (half-sister) Uncles Malcolm Murray Cousins Jimmy Murray Isabel Murray Spouse Ian Bowles (husband) Children Baby with Ian Zachary Edward Bowles (adopted son)
Affiliation
Family	Murray family Bowles Family

Laura Murray is the daughter of Archibald Murray and the sister of Ruth Dutton, Elizabeth and Wallace Murray, the cousin of James Murray and the half-sister of Juliet Murray. She is Emily Starr's aunt. After Juliet and Douglas Starr died, spinsters Laura and Elizabeth and Jimmy took Emily in to New Moon. Laura is sweet and mellow, and is fairly easily scared compared to her sister Elizabeth who intimidates people. She is very loving to Emily and Jimmy.

Physical appearance

Laura Murray has a pale complexion and a slender figure. She is described as "almost pretty, with her delicate features and the heavy coils of pale, sleek fair hair, faintly greyed, pinned closely all around her head" with round blue eyes that Emily calls "wells of blue." Douglas Starr once mentions that Juliet somewhat looked like Laura, but that "Laura was never so pretty."

Behind the scenes

Sheila McCarthy

Portrayal

• In the 1998 TV series Emily of New Moon, Laura Murray is portrayed by Canadian actress Sheila McCarthy.

Adaptation

As a character on the Emily of New Moon television series, Laura Murray is portrayed by Canadian actress Sheila McCarthy and is present in all 46 episodes. Her story varies greatly from Lucy Maud Montgomery's work. Here, Laura Murray is eventually married to an Ian Bowles. She does not make up her mind easily and feels pressured by Elizabeth. She often feels shaky at night, so she takes laudanum, a medicine that calms her down. However, the medicine is addictive. Laura Murray is once taken to a mental asylum as her sister Elizabeth's death, the financial issues that follow and her relationship with Bowles weigh heavy on her shoulders and make her loose her mind. Bowles lets her down in the end.

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