The ten worst mothers in books

Jennifer Gilmore's latest novel is The Mothers.

From her list of the ten worst mothers in books, as told to Publishers Weekly:
Emma Bovary, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Motherhood is a grand disappointment to Emma Bovary, just one in a list of many of her dissatisfactions. Initially she pretends to dote on her daughter, as a cover up of her transgressions, but soon her vanity and