Agatha is Claudia’s mother. Little is known of her life. She dies of the plague when Claudia is five. She appears in Interview with the Vampire (1976) and Merrick (2000).
She is born in New Orleans in the late eighteenth century and gives birth to only one daughter, whose original name is lost in time. She raises her daughter for five years but falls victim to a plague ravaging New Orleans. Shortly after her daughter turns five years old, Agatha dies, not knowing whether her daughter will survive. Only days after her death, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac happens into their house, drinks the daughter’s blood to the point of death, while the vampire Lestat takes the little girl, turns her into a vampire, and gives her the name Claudia. Agatha’s greatest legacy is as a vicious killer in the body of the five-year-old girl, who will eventually be burned to death for attempting to destroy her maker.
For more perspectives on Agatha’s character, read the Alphabettery sections Claudia, Lestat de Lioncourt, and Louis de Pointe du Lac.