Did Elizabeth, in Frankenstein, feel guilty for the death of her mother? If so, can you please indicate where in the novel she was feeling guilty.

Elizabeth Lavenza, from Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein, essentially had three
mothers.

Elizabeth's birth mother, a German, died giving
birth to Elizabeth. The father, a Milanese nobleman, had given a peasant family (mother
number two) control over the child. The family, unable to care for the child due to
their poverty (and four other children), allowed Caroline Frankenstein to take the child
to care for as her own.

Caroline Frankenstein, Victor's
mother, then contracted Scarlet Fever while nursing Elizabeth of the same illness. While
Elizabeth recovered from the illness, Scarlet Fever took Caroline's life. In order to
care for the other Frankensteins, Elizabeth pushed her own grief aside. Therefore, while
one could assume that Elizabeth felt guilty for giving Caroline the deadly illness, her
behavior following Caroline's death shows her to not feel guilt for her "mother's"
death.

She
indeed veiled her grief, and strove to act the comforter to us all. She looked steadily
on life, and assumed its duties with courage and zeal. She devoted herself to those whom
she had been taught to call her uncle and cousins. Never was she so enchanting as at
this time when she recalled the sunshine of her smiles and spent them upon us. She
forgot even her own regret in her endeavours to make us
forget.

Essentially,
Elizabeth did not know her birth mother (and most likely did not know that her birth
caused her death) and her guilt regarding it would not exist. Nothing is ever said about
the fate of the peasant woman who cared for Elizabeth. The death of Caroline, while the
result of Elizabeth's illness, was pushed aside so that Elizabeth could care for the
Frankenstein family.