Ramona Marquez was born and raised in London.
 Errol Wayne Stevens, of the California Historical Society, notes several contemporary reviews of the novel in which writers dismissed the idea that Ramona could have been part Native American, a race which they characterized as "dull, heavy and unimpressionable," and "lazy, cruel, cowardly, and covetous
 That love is reserved for her only child, Felipe Moreno, whom she adores

