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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Dorothea Brooke | Dorothea Brooke (later Dorothea Brooke Casaubon), the protagonist, wants to perform great acts for humanity. Read More |
| Edward Casaubon | Edward Casaubon is a middle-aged clergyman who marries Dorothea and expects to write the Key to All Mythologies. Read More |
| Will Ladislaw | Will Ladislaw, Edward Casaubon's cousin, falls in love with Dorothea and chooses public life as his vocation. Read More |
| Tertius Lydgate | Tertius Lydgate is an exceptional doctor whose "spots of commonness" stymie his aspirations to be a leader in medicine. Read More |
| Rosamund Vincy Lydgate | Rosamund Vincy Lydgate, a social climber, gets both more and less than she bargained for in marrying Tertius Lydgate. Read More |
| Nicholas Bulstrode | Nicholas Bulstrode is an Evangelical banker who hides the dishonest deeds on which he built his success. Read More |
| Camden Farebrother | Camden Farebrother is an empathetic clergyman and gifted preacher. Read More |
| Mrs. Abel | Mrs. Abel is the housekeeper at Stone Court who helps Nicholas Bulstrode take care of John Raffles. |
| Mr. Bambridge | Mr. Bambridge is a less-than-scrupulous horse trader. |
| Arthur Brooke | Arthur Brooke is a shallow dilettante who briefly runs as a Reform candidate. He is Dorothea and Celia's uncle. |
| Harriet Vincy Bulstrode | Harriet Vincy Bulstrode is Walter Vincy's sister and Nicholas Bulstrode's wife. |
| Elinor Cadwallader | Elinor Cadwallader, upper-class by birth, is a busybody who married a clergyman, Humphrey Cadwallader, for love. |
| Humphrey Cadwallader | Humphrey Cadwallader is the clergyman for the parsonage on Sir James Chettam's estate. |
| Celia Brooke Chettam | Celia Brooke Chettam, Dorothea's practical younger sister, marries Sir James Chettam. |
| Sir James Chettam | Sir James Chettam, Arthur Brooke's neighbor, courts both of Brooke's nieces and marries Celia. |
| Mr. Dagley | Mr. Dagley is a poor cottager who lives on Arthur Brooke's land. |
| Mrs. Dollop | Mrs. Dollop is a landlady and source of gossip and false information. |
| Sarah Dunkirk | Sarah Dunkirk, Will Ladislaw's mother, ran away from her disreputable family. |
| Miss Farebrother | Miss Farebrother is Camden Farebrother's single sister. |
| Mrs. Farebrother | Mrs. Farebrother is Camden Farebrother's mother. |
| Joshua Rigg Featherstone | Joshua Rigg Featherstone is Peter Featherstone's illegitimate child who inherits all his father's land and property. |
| Peter Featherstone | Peter Featherstone is a rich, sick, and manipulative widower related to both the Garths and the Vincys by marriage. |
| Mr. Gambit | Mr. Gambit is a surgeon-apothecary who specializes in childbirth. |
| Caleb Garth | Caleb Garth is a self-taught civil engineer who loves his work and does it well but is a bad businessman. |
| Mary Garth | Mary Garth is the eldest daughter of Caleb and Mary Garth and a single teacher with few prospects. |
| Susan Garth | Susan Garth is a housewife and school teacher married to Caleb Garth. |
| Frank Hawley | Frank Hawley is a lawyer who dislikes reform and Tertius Lydgate. |
| Mr. Horrock | Mr. Horrock is Mr. Bambridge's business partner. |
| Julia Casaubon Ladislaw | Julia Casaubon Ladislaw is Will Ladislaw's grandmother and Edward Casaubon's great aunt; she married a Polish musician and was disowned by her family. |
| Captain Lydgate | Captain Lydgate is Tertius Lydgate's empty-headed cousin. |
| Sir Godwin Lydgate | Sir Godwin Lydgate is Tertius Lydgate's uncle who paid for his nephew's education after he was orphaned. |
| Dr. Minchin | Dr. Minchin is a physician classically educated. |
| Naumann | Naumann is a German painter with whom Will Ladislaw studies in Rome. |
| Henrietta Noble | Henrietta Noble is Mrs. Farebrother's spinster sister. |
| Ned Plymdale | Ned Plymdale unsuccessfully courts Rosamund. |
| Selina Plymdale | Selina Plymdale is the wife of a dyer and a good friend of Harriet Vincy Bulstrode; her son is Ned Plymdale. |
| John Raffles | John Raffles is a dissolute alcoholic and extortionist who helped Nicholas Bulstrode illegally inherit a widow's money. |
| Dr. Sprague | Dr. Sprague is a physician classically educated. |
| Mr. Toller | Mr. Toller is a surgeon-apothecary. |
| Borthrop Trumbull | Borthrop Trumbull is an auctioneer and rental agent. |
| Mr. Tyke | Mr. Tyke is an Evangelical clergyman whom Nicholas Bulstrode chooses as the chaplain for the fever hospital. |
| Fred Vincy | Fred Vincy is the eldest son of Walter Vincy and expects to inherit a fortune. He is in love with Mary Garth. |
| Lucy Vincy | Lucy Vincy is Walter Vincy's wife and a shopkeeper's daughter. |
| Walter Vincy | Walter Vincy is a manufacturer with a large family and the mayor of Middlemarch. |
| Mr. Wrench | Mr. Wrench is a surgeon-apothecary. |
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