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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Bathsheba Everdene | Bathsheba Everdene is a single woman who owns and manages a farm. She is a young, beautiful, and independent woman. Read More |
| Gabriel Oak | Gabriel Oak is a farmer whose loss of his flock leads to poverty. He is steady in temperament and resolute in his affection. Read More |
| Sergeant Francis Troy | Sergeant Francis Troy is a 28-year-old soldier who is the first of the three men who propose to Bathsheba Everdene to succeed in winning her hand; he becomes her husband. Read More |
| William Boldwood | William Boldwood owns the farm adjacent to Bathsheba Everdene's. He develops an unhealthy affection for Bathsheba. Read More |
| Fanny Robin | Fanny Robin is a young servant of Bathsheba Everdene's who vanishes. She is a classic "fallen woman." Read More |
| Mr. Aldritch | Mr. Aldritch is the surgeon summoned from Casterbridge when Troy is shot. |
| Cain Ball | Cain is hired as assistant to Gabriel Oak in his shepherd duties for Bathsheba Everdene. |
| Mark Clark | Mark is one of the locals who works on the farm, a man "some twenty years younger" than Jan Coggan. |
| Jan Coggan | Jan Coggan is a middle-aged, unmarried, and observant man. He is a friend to Gabriel Oak and works for Bathsheba Everdene. |
| Henery Fray | Henery Fray is "more than middle age" and speaks critically of Bathsheba Everdene repeatedly. He works for her. |
| Mrs. Hurst | Mrs. Hurst is Bathsheba Everdene's aunt. |
| The Maltster | The maltster, not given a proper name, is the great-grandfather of Liddy Smallbury and father of Jacob Smallbury. |
| Temperence Miller | Temperence is a worker on Bathsheba Everdene's farm. She works with her sister Soberness. |
| Soberness Miller | Soberness is a worker on Bathsheba Everdene's farm. She works with her sister Temperence. |
| Maryann Money | Maryann is a servant of Bathsheba Everdene's within the house. |
| Matthew Moon | Matthew is another of the locals who works for Bathsheba Everdene. He speaks critically of Bathsheba on more than one occasion. |
| Baily Pennyways | Baily is the former bailiff for Bathsheba Everdene. He steals grain, and so gets fired. |
| Joseph Poorgrass | Joseph, described early on as one of "the carters and waggoners," is shy and awkward. He speaks critically of Bathsheba Everdene repeatedly. |
| Andrew Randle | Andrew is a stutterer who works for Bathsheba Everdene. |
| Sam Samway | Sam is Boldwood's servant. |
| Billy Smallbury | Billy is another of the locals who works on the farm; he is about 40 years old and is Jacob's son. |
| Jacob Smallbury | Jacob is about 65, has one tooth, and is balding. He is Billy's father. |
| Liddy Smallbury | Liddy is Bathsheba Everdene's servant and confidante. She is the great-granddaughter of the maltster, granddaughter of Jacob, and daughter of Billy. |
| Laban Tall | Laban, often referred to as "Susan Tall's husband," is a dutiful young man who works for Bathsheba Everdene. |
| Susan Tall | Susan is the wife of Laban Tall and an outspoken woman who is shrewish at times. |
| Parson Thirdly | Parson Thirdly of Weatherbury is charged with the burial of Fanny Robin, seeing to the corpse of Sergeant Troy, and leading church services and choir. |
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