If you studied French, or comparative literature, you might be familiar with Le Père Goriot, one of Balzac's more digestible tomes about a naive but doting father who sacrifices money, health and dignity for his two daughters.
Anastasie and Delphine Goriot use their father - and arguably others - to climb the social ladder... and discard him when he is of no further use. He dies after a long illness, lonely and destitute.
Neither of the sisters, iirc, turn up to his funeral - he is too beneath them by now for them to want the connection to be known. One of them deigns to send one of her fancier horses to add a touch of class to the funeral parade. I may be misremembering this bit...
All in all, there are quite a few parallels between the Goriot sisters and MM, though a couple of divergences too, for example at no point does Monsieur Goriot try to use his connection to his daughters to raise his own profile, as some say Thomas Markle did with Meghan.
There must be other literary references out there - there so many books I have not read, of course, while the themes of betrayal, filial neglect and the corrupting effect of money have always been powerful ones to explore. I thought this might make an interesting discussion to see whether there are any others with similar thoughts.