{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "slug": "middlemarch",
  "title": "Middlemarch",
  "author": "George Eliot",
  "language": "English",
  "spoilers": true,
  "characters": [
    {
      "name": "Saint Theresa",
      "aliases": [
        "Theresa"
      ],
      "description": "A Spanish woman who sought martyrdom as a child and later reformed a religious order."
    },
    {
      "name": "Theresa’s younger brother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The boy who accompanied Theresa on her childhood pilgrimage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dorothea Brooke",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Brooke",
        "Dodo"
      ],
      "description": "The elder Brooke sister, devoted to helping others. She gives up her inheritance to marry Will Ladislaw, and they have a son."
    },
    {
      "name": "Celia Brooke",
      "aliases": [
        "Celia",
        "Kitty"
      ],
      "description": "Dorothea’s practical younger sister, married to Sir James Chettam and mother of Arthur. She loves Dorothea and helps bring about a reconciliation between their families."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Brooke",
      "aliases": [
        "Brooke"
      ],
      "description": "The sisters’ uncle and guardian, owner of Tipton Grange and a former parliamentary candidate. He corresponds with Dorothea and Will after their marriage and invites them to the Grange."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir James Chettam",
      "aliases": [
        "Chettam"
      ],
      "description": "A baronet, married to Celia and protective of Dorothea. He never approves of Dorothea’s marriage to Will, though he eventually reconciles with them."
    },
    {
      "name": "Edward Casaubon",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Casaubon"
      ],
      "description": "A scholarly clergyman at Lowick, Dorothea’s late husband, and author of the unfinished “Key to all Mythologies.” His will penalizes Dorothea if she marries Will."
    },
    {
      "name": "Monsieur Liret",
      "aliases": [
        "the Vaudois clergyman"
      ],
      "description": "A Vaudois clergyman whose conferences on Waldensian history impressed Dorothea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Cadwallader",
      "aliases": [
        "the Rector’s wife",
        "Elinor"
      ],
      "description": "The witty rector’s wife, known for her sharp judgments. She predicts that Dorothea will marry Will and comments on the family’s reaction."
    },
    {
      "name": "Madame Poincon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman known to the Brooke sisters for wearing ornaments."
    },
    {
      "name": "Monk",
      "aliases": [
        "the Great St. Bernard dog"
      ],
      "description": "A large dog who accompanies and looks after the young women."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Humphry Davy",
      "aliases": [
        "Davy"
      ],
      "description": "A scientist whom Mr. Brooke recalls dining with."
    },
    {
      "name": "William Wordsworth",
      "aliases": [
        "Wordsworth",
        "the poet Wordsworth"
      ],
      "description": "A poet whom Mr. Brooke recalls meeting at dinner."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Locke",
      "aliases": [
        "Locke"
      ],
      "description": "A philosopher whose portrait Dorothea thinks Casaubon resembles."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sancho Panza",
      "aliases": [
        "Sancho"
      ],
      "description": "A character in a Cervantes passage quoted in the novel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Don Quixote",
      "aliases": [
        "Don Quijote"
      ],
      "description": "A character in a Cervantes passage quoted in the novel."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Milton",
      "aliases": [
        "Milton"
      ],
      "description": "The poet Dorothea imagines she would have married and cared for."
    },
    {
      "name": "Richard Hooker",
      "aliases": [
        "Hooker"
      ],
      "description": "A theologian Dorothea imagines she would have married to save him from an unhappy marriage."
    },
    {
      "name": "William Wilberforce",
      "aliases": [
        "Wilberforce"
      ],
      "description": "A political reformer cited by Mr. Brooke as a model."
    },
    {
      "name": "Robert Southey",
      "aliases": [
        "Southey"
      ],
      "description": "A poet and historian whose account of the Peninsular War Mr. Brooke reads."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Lovegood",
      "aliases": [
        "Lovegood"
      ],
      "description": "Sir James’s associate who helps assess and carry out estate improvements."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tantripp",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A servant who accompanies Dorothea to Rome and cares for her at Lowick. She attends Dorothea after her anguished night and helps her prepare to visit Rosamond."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Cadwallader’s maid",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed servant whose information about Sir James’s intentions reaches Tantripp."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir James’s man",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed servant said to know Sir James intends to marry Dorothea."
    },
    {
      "name": "John",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Sir James’s groom, who takes away the Maltese puppy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bunch",
      "aliases": [
        "the sheep-stealer"
      ],
      "description": "A condemned sheep-stealer whose case Mr. Brooke tried to help."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Samuel Romilly",
      "aliases": [
        "Romilly"
      ],
      "description": "A legal reformer whom Mr. Brooke says might have helped Bunch."
    },
    {
      "name": "Corydon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Sir James’s chestnut horse, offered to Dorothea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dorothea and Celia’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "mamma"
      ],
      "description": "The late mother of the Brooke sisters."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Maltese puppy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A tiny puppy Sir James brings for Dorothea’s approval."
    },
    {
      "name": "Celia’s tiny terrier",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A small dog Celia once loved."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dorothea’s sick laborer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed laborer Dorothea once prayed for."
    },
    {
      "name": "The curate’s children",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed children Celia visits at the vicarage."
    },
    {
      "name": "The curate",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed clergyman whose children Celia visits."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Fitchett",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A lodge-keeper who discusses fowls and pigeons with Mrs. Cadwallader."
    },
    {
      "name": "Master Fitchett",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mrs. Fitchett’s husband, interested in pigeon varieties."
    },
    {
      "name": "Humphrey Cadwallader",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Cadwallader",
        "the Rector"
      ],
      "description": "The rector of Freshitt and Mrs. Cadwallader’s husband. He urges Sir James to consider Dorothea’s decision more fairly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir James’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "Lady Chettam",
        "the Dowager Lady Chettam"
      ],
      "description": "Sir James’s widowed mother, who advises that Dorothea should have a companion at Lowick. She disapproves of Dorothea’s planned marriage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Will Ladislaw",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Ladislaw",
        "young Ladislaw",
        "Mr. Will Ladislaw"
      ],
      "description": "Casaubon’s second cousin, an aspiring artist and Mr. Brooke’s newspaper editor. He marries Dorothea, becomes an active reformer, and is elected to Parliament."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Tucker",
      "aliases": [
        "Tucker"
      ],
      "description": "The curate at Lowick, who accompanies visitors around the parish."
    },
    {
      "name": "Casaubon’s mother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Casaubon’s late mother, depicted in a miniature at Lowick."
    },
    {
      "name": "Casaubon’s aunt",
      "aliases": [
        "his mother’s elder sister",
        "Julia"
      ],
      "description": "Casaubon’s aunt Julia, Will’s grandmother, disowned after marrying a poor Polish refugee."
    },
    {
      "name": "Casaubon’s father",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Casaubon’s deceased father, shown in a family portrait."
    },
    {
      "name": "Casaubon’s maternal grandmother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Casaubon’s deceased maternal grandmother, shown in a family portrait."
    },
    {
      "name": "Casaubon’s uncle",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Casaubon’s deceased brother, whose death left him Lowick manor-house and land."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Pole",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed Polish refugee who married Casaubon’s aunt and earned his living teaching."
    },
    {
      "name": "Henry of Navarre",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A historical figure invoked by the narrator."
    },
    {
      "name": "Alfred the Great",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A historical figure invoked by the narrator."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Tapir",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A high-born relation of Mrs. Cadwallader, described as an idiotic young lord."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Megatherium",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A high-born relation of Mrs. Cadwallader, described as an irritable old lord."
    },
    {
      "name": "The unnamed young sketcher",
      "aliases": [
        "the young gentleman with a sketch-book"
      ],
      "description": "A young man seen sketching at Lowick, later identified as Will Ladislaw."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Standish",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An old lawyer who distrusts Lydgate’s methods, reads Featherstone’s will, and supports Brooke’s election campaign. He informs Sir James about Will’s prolonged stay in Middlemarch."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Bulstrode",
      "aliases": [
        "Bulstrode",
        "Nicholas"
      ],
      "description": "A banker and philanthropist who funds a fever hospital. His past and role in Raffles’s death have been exposed; he plans to leave Middlemarch and proposes that Fred manage Stone Court for Harriet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Chichely",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A bachelor and coursing enthusiast at the Grange dinner-party."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Vincy",
      "aliases": [
        "Rosamond Vincy",
        "Rosamond",
        "Rosy"
      ],
      "description": "The beautiful Vincy daughter who marries Lydgate. She later raises their children, continues to remember Dorothea’s generosity, and remarries after Lydgate’s death."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Renfrew",
      "aliases": [
        "the colonel’s widow"
      ],
      "description": "A colonel’s widow whose illness is discussed at the Grange dinner-party."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Lydgate",
      "aliases": [
        "Tertius Lydgate",
        "Lydgate"
      ],
      "description": "A young doctor and surgeon who leads the new fever hospital. He later builds a successful medical practice but dies prematurely of diphtheria, still feeling that he failed to fulfill his scientific ambitions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Hicks",
      "aliases": [
        "Hicks"
      ],
      "description": "Lady Chettam’s late medical attendant, trusted for his judgment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Vincy",
      "aliases": [
        "the mayor",
        "the manufacturer"
      ],
      "description": "A prosperous manufacturer and mayor, husband of Mrs. Vincy and father of Fred and Rosamond. He tells Rosamond of the scandal involving Bulstrode and Lydgate and offers some help if they move."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Grainger",
      "aliases": [
        "Grainger"
      ],
      "description": "A man Mr. Vincy recalls as having been reduced to a skeleton by illness or treatment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Peacock",
      "aliases": [
        "Peacock"
      ],
      "description": "The doctor whose practice Lydgate bought; he had treated Featherstone and Bulstrode."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Wrench",
      "aliases": [
        "Wrench"
      ],
      "description": "The Vincy family doctor, hostile to Lydgate’s methods and judgment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Vincy",
      "aliases": [
        "Rosamond’s mother",
        "mamma",
        "Lucy"
      ],
      "description": "The warm, devoted mother of Rosamond and Fred, who tells Rosamond about the scandal involving Bulstrode and Lydgate. In her later years she is comforted by her grandchildren."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Featherstone",
      "aliases": [
        "Peter Featherstone",
        "Featherstone",
        "Uncle Featherstone"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy landowner and the Vincys’ uncle by marriage. His wills leave most of his estate to Joshua Rigg."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Fred Vincy",
      "aliases": [
        "Fred Vincy",
        "Fred"
      ],
      "description": "Rosamond’s brother, who loves Mary Garth and works as a farmer and estate manager at Stone Court. He marries Mary, writes about farming, and they have three sons."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Bulstrode’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs. Bulstrode"
      ],
      "description": "Bulstrode’s wife and Mr. Vincy’s sister."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Waule",
      "aliases": [
        "Jane Waule",
        "Jane Featherstone"
      ],
      "description": "Peter Featherstone’s widowed sister and mother of John Waule."
    },
    {
      "name": "Solomon Waule",
      "aliases": [
        "Solomon"
      ],
      "description": "Mrs. Waule’s brother and Peter Featherstone’s brother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mary Garth",
      "aliases": [
        "Mary"
      ],
      "description": "Caleb Garth’s daughter, who loves Fred and marries him. She writes a book for her sons and shares a happy family life with Fred."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Waule",
      "aliases": [
        "John"
      ],
      "description": "Mrs. Waule’s son, who visits Mary Garth."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rebecca Featherstone",
      "aliases": [
        "Rebecca"
      ],
      "description": "A niece of Peter Featherstone, willing to nurse him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Joanna Featherstone",
      "aliases": [
        "Joanna"
      ],
      "description": "A niece of Peter Featherstone, willing to nurse him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Elizabeth Featherstone",
      "aliases": [
        "Elizabeth"
      ],
      "description": "A niece of Peter Featherstone, willing to nurse him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Morgan",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A teacher who gives lessons to the younger Vincy girls."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Lemon",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs. Lemon’s schoolteacher"
      ],
      "description": "The head of a leading girls’ school where Rosamond and Mary studied."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pritchard",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A servant in the Vincy household."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Waule",
      "aliases": [
        "Waule"
      ],
      "description": "Mrs. Waule’s late husband."
    },
    {
      "name": "The unnamed lender to Fred",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person Featherstone suspects may have lent Fred money against an expected inheritance."
    },
    {
      "name": "Unnamed servant at Stone Court",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A servant who answers Featherstone’s bell."
    },
    {
      "name": "Simmons",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Featherstone’s farm-bailiff."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Farebrother",
      "aliases": [
        "Farebrother",
        "Camden Farebrother"
      ],
      "description": "A clergyman, naturalist, and friend to the Garths who advises Fred and befriends Lydgate. He receives the Lowick living and helps Fred find a vocation; Fred later credits him with helping him at a crucial moment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Tyke",
      "aliases": [
        "Tyke"
      ],
      "description": "A clergyman Bulstrode wants appointed hospital chaplain."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Medlicote",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A landowner who contributes land and timber to the hospital."
    },
    {
      "name": "Harriet Bulstrode",
      "aliases": [
        "Harriet",
        "Mrs. Bulstrode"
      ],
      "description": "Bulstrode’s wife and Rosamond’s aunt, who chooses to share her husband’s shame. She offers Fred the opportunity to manage Stone Court for her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Vincy’s deceased brother",
      "aliases": [
        "Vincy’s brother"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Vincy’s late brother, a clergyman."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Toller",
      "aliases": [
        "Toller"
      ],
      "description": "A Middlemarch physician who favors older methods."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Sprague",
      "aliases": [
        "Sprague"
      ],
      "description": "A Middlemarch physician who consults on Fred’s illness and dislikes Lydgate’s perceived arrogance."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Minchin",
      "aliases": [
        "Minchin"
      ],
      "description": "A Middlemarch physician who distrusts Lydgate’s methods."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir William Jenner",
      "aliases": [
        "Jenner"
      ],
      "description": "A physician Lydgate admires for the value of his work."
    },
    {
      "name": "Xavier Bichat",
      "aliases": [
        "Bichat"
      ],
      "description": "A French anatomist who inspired Lydgate’s scientific ambitions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Friedrich Herschel",
      "aliases": [
        "Herschel"
      ],
      "description": "An astronomer cited by the narrator as a great discoverer."
    },
    {
      "name": "Madame Laure",
      "aliases": [
        "Laure",
        "the Provençal actress",
        "the Provencale"
      ],
      "description": "A married Provençal actress who deliberately stabs her husband during a performance."
    },
    {
      "name": "Madame Laure’s husband",
      "aliases": [
        "the unfortunate lover"
      ],
      "description": "The husband whom Madame Laure stabs during a performance."
    },
    {
      "name": "Madame Laure’s child",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed child Madame Laure carries in a performance."
    },
    {
      "name": "The unnamed narrator",
      "aliases": [
        "the narrator"
      ],
      "description": "The participating narrative voice that tells the story and reflects on its characters."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tegg the shoemaker’s son",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed young man whose apprenticeship Bulstrode helps arrange."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tegg",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Middlemarch shoemaker and father of an apprentice."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Strype",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A washerwoman whom Bulstrode defends in a dispute over her drying-ground."
    },
    {
      "name": "Stubbs",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person Bulstrode accuses of making an unjust demand of Mrs. Strype."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Bowyer",
      "aliases": [
        "Bowyer"
      ],
      "description": "A Middlemarch resident known for comic singing and ventriloquism. He is suspected of echoing and mocking Brooke during his campaign speech."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A physician and author whose work on fever Lydgate studies."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Charles Sedley",
      "aliases": [
        "Sedley"
      ],
      "description": "A poet quoted in a chapter epigraph."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Farebrother",
      "aliases": [
        "the Vicar’s mother"
      ],
      "description": "Farebrother’s mother, who runs his household."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Noble",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Farebrother’s tiny, meek sister, who saves food for poor children and is devoted to Will Ladislaw. She carries his request to Dorothea to meet him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Winifred Farebrother",
      "aliases": [
        "Winifred Farebrother"
      ],
      "description": "Farebrother’s elder sister, dependent on her mother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Griffin",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person whose wife reports a threat from Tyke."
    },
    {
      "name": "Griffin’s wife",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman who reports that Tyke threatened to withhold coals if she and Griffin attended Farebrother’s sermons."
    },
    {
      "name": "Trawley",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Lydgate’s former Paris roommate and Farebrother’s correspondent."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Frank Hawley",
      "aliases": [
        "Frank Hawley"
      ],
      "description": "A lawyer and town clerk who argues Farebrother should receive the hospital chaplaincy salary. He later leads the demand that Bulstrode resign and circulates suspicion about him and Lydgate."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Powderell",
      "aliases": [
        "Powderell"
      ],
      "description": "A retired ironmonger and infirmary director who supports Tyke."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Hackbutt",
      "aliases": [
        "Hackbutt"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy tanner who opposes Bulstrode’s control of the infirmary appointment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Plymdale",
      "aliases": [
        "Plymdale"
      ],
      "description": "An infirmary board member who supports Tyke."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Larcher",
      "aliases": [
        "Larcher"
      ],
      "description": "A carrier who considers Farebrother too lax for a clergyman."
    },
    {
      "name": "Reverend Edward Thesiger",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Thesiger"
      ],
      "description": "The rector of St. Peter’s who supports his friend Tyke for hospital chaplain."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rev. Walter Tyke",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Tyke",
        "Tyke"
      ],
      "description": "A zealous clergyman appointed infirmary chaplain after Lydgate casts the deciding vote."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Wimple",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman with a stomach complaint who appeals to Dr. Minchin’s views on providence."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Unitarian brewer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A brewer who jokes about the Athanasian Creed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Louis’s Paris acquaintance",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed person mentioned in the context of Louis’s fever book."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Chancellor",
      "aliases": [
        "the Lord Chancellor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Lord Chancellor used as a comparison for Dr. Sprague’s authority."
    },
    {
      "name": "The German artist",
      "aliases": [
        "the dark-eyed, animated German",
        "Adolf Naumann"
      ],
      "description": "A German painter in Rome who befriends Will and uses Dorothea and Casaubon as models."
    },
    {
      "name": "Maid-servant accompanying Dorothea",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed servant traveling with Dorothea and Casaubon in Rome."
    },
    {
      "name": "The courier",
      "aliases": [
        "their experienced courier"
      ],
      "description": "The experienced courier accompanying the Casaubons in Rome."
    },
    {
      "name": "Thorwaldsen",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A living artist in Rome whom Will takes the Casaubons to see."
    },
    {
      "name": "Santa Clara",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The saint Dorothea is asked to represent in Naumann’s sketch."
    },
    {
      "name": "Saint Thomas Aquinas",
      "aliases": [
        "the Angelical Doctor",
        "the scholastic"
      ],
      "description": "The theologian whose likeness Naumann sketches using Casaubon as a model."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Bambridge",
      "aliases": [
        "Bambridge"
      ],
      "description": "A horse-dealer and Fred’s creditor who accompanies him to Houndsley. He later relays Raffles’s revelations about Bulstrode to a group at the Green Dragon."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Horrock",
      "aliases": [
        "Horrock",
        "Horrock “the vet”"
      ],
      "description": "A veterinarian who accompanies Fred and Bambridge to Houndsley."
    },
    {
      "name": "Caleb Garth",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Garth"
      ],
      "description": "Mary’s father, a surveyor and agent who trusts Fred and trains him in his work. He agrees to oversee Fred’s management of Stone Court."
    },
    {
      "name": "Susan Garth",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs. Garth"
      ],
      "description": "Mary’s mother, a former teacher who helps repay Fred’s debt with her savings."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mary and Fred’s childhood ring",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A brass ring used in childhood play; an object rather than a character."
    },
    {
      "name": "The unnamed young farmer",
      "aliases": [
        "the farmer"
      ],
      "description": "A young farmer who trades Diamond to Fred."
    },
    {
      "name": "Diamond",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A vicious dappled-gray hunter sold to Fred."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pegwell",
      "aliases": [
        "the corn-factor"
      ],
      "description": "A corn-factor who once owned a horse Bambridge considered buying."
    },
    {
      "name": "The groom injured by Diamond",
      "aliases": [
        "the groom"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed groom nearly kicked by Diamond."
    },
    {
      "name": "The unnamed man from Lord Medlicote",
      "aliases": [
        "Lord Medlicote’s man"
      ],
      "description": "An employee of Lord Medlicote looking for a dappled-gray horse."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old bay horse",
      "aliases": [
        "Fred’s broken-winded horse",
        "Fred’s old horse"
      ],
      "description": "Fred’s broken-winded horse, traded toward the purchase of Diamond."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ben Garth",
      "aliases": [
        "Ben"
      ],
      "description": "One of Caleb and Susan Garth’s children, energetic and argumentative. As an adult he becomes Fred and Mary’s uncle and argues with Letty about boys and girls."
    },
    {
      "name": "Letty Garth",
      "aliases": [
        "Letty"
      ],
      "description": "One of Caleb and Susan Garth’s children, taught by her mother. As an adult she becomes Fred and Mary’s aunt and argues with Ben."
    },
    {
      "name": "Alfred Garth",
      "aliases": [
        "Alfred"
      ],
      "description": "Caleb and Susan Garth’s son, intended for an engineering apprenticeship."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sally",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A servant in the Garth household."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tortoise",
      "aliases": [
        "old Tortoise"
      ],
      "description": "The Garth household’s cat."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fanny Hackbutt",
      "aliases": [
        "Fanny"
      ],
      "description": "A pupil who takes lessons from Susan Garth."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Hanmer",
      "aliases": [
        "Hanmer"
      ],
      "description": "The person to whom Alfred Garth may be apprenticed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Piozzi",
      "aliases": [
        "Piozzi"
      ],
      "description": "An author whose recollections of Johnson Mary reads."
    },
    {
      "name": "Samuel Johnson",
      "aliases": [
        "Johnson"
      ],
      "description": "A writer discussed in Mrs. Piozzi’s book."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cincinnatus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Roman statesman whose story Susan teaches the Garth children."
    },
    {
      "name": "Job",
      "aliases": [
        "old Job"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed person known to the Garth children for distinctive pronunciation."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Wrench’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "Wrench’s wife"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman and mother of seven in Mr. Wrench’s household."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ellen Bulstrode",
      "aliases": [
        "Ellen"
      ],
      "description": "A patient Lydgate cured, mentioned by Rosamond."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Larcher",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman whose children had measles and received care from Wrench."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Taft",
      "aliases": [
        "Taft"
      ],
      "description": "A Middlemarch woman who gathers information while knitting."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Ned Plymdale",
      "aliases": [
        "Ned Plymdale",
        "young Plymdale"
      ],
      "description": "Mrs. Plymdale’s son, who courts Rosamond and resents Lydgate."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Plymdale",
      "aliases": [
        "Selina"
      ],
      "description": "Ned Plymdale’s mother, who says Rosamond and Lydgate are widely assumed engaged. She passes along news of Bulstrode’s loan through family and social connections."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Caius Larcher",
      "aliases": [
        "Caius Larcher"
      ],
      "description": "A young Middlemarch man Rosamond considers less polished than Lydgate."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Honorable Mrs. S.",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman whose portrait Ned Plymdale compares to Rosamond."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lady Blessington",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A celebrated writer mentioned by Rosamond."
    },
    {
      "name": "L. E. L.",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A celebrated writer mentioned by Rosamond."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Walter Scott",
      "aliases": [
        "Scott"
      ],
      "description": "A writer whose poems and novels shaped the Garth children’s childhood."
    },
    {
      "name": "The eminent philosopher",
      "aliases": [
        "the philosopher among the narrator’s friends"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed philosopher and friend of the narrator who demonstrates how light changes the appearance of scratches."
    },
    {
      "name": "Kate Bulstrode",
      "aliases": [
        "Kate"
      ],
      "description": "A young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bulstrode."
    },
    {
      "name": "The tiny black spaniel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The Bulstrodes’ small dog."
    },
    {
      "name": "Abraham",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A biblical patriarch invoked by Harriet Bulstrode."
    },
    {
      "name": "Moses",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A biblical patriarch invoked by Harriet Bulstrode."
    },
    {
      "name": "Joshua Rigg",
      "aliases": [
        "Rigg"
      ],
      "description": "Peter Featherstone’s previously undisclosed son and heir, also known as Josh. He sells Stone Court to Bulstrode."
    },
    {
      "name": "Brother Jonah Featherstone",
      "aliases": [
        "Jonah",
        "Brother Jonah"
      ],
      "description": "Peter Featherstone’s brother, who stays at Stone Court and receives little from the will."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sister Martha",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs. Cranch",
        "Martha"
      ],
      "description": "Peter Featherstone’s sister, married to Mr. Cranch."
    },
    {
      "name": "Young Cranch",
      "aliases": [
        "Tom",
        "Peter Featherstone’s nephew"
      ],
      "description": "Sister Martha’s nineteen-year-old son."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Borthrop Trumbull",
      "aliases": [
        "Trumbull"
      ],
      "description": "A local auctioneer and second cousin of Peter Featherstone, known for his lively sales patter. He conducts the sale of Edwin Larcher’s belongings."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Middlemarch mercer",
      "aliases": [
        "the second cousin"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed second cousin of Peter Featherstone who attends the will reading."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Brassing cousin who gave presents",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the two cousins from Brassing"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly cousin of Peter Featherstone who believes presents to him created a claim."
    },
    {
      "name": "The saturnine Brassing cousin",
      "aliases": [
        "the other cousin from Brassing"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly cousin of Peter Featherstone who believes his general merit gives him a claim."
    },
    {
      "name": "Daniel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The author of the tragedy Philotas, quoted in an epigraph."
    },
    {
      "name": "George the Fourth",
      "aliases": [
        "George IV"
      ],
      "description": "The recently deceased king mentioned in the political context."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Grey",
      "aliases": [
        "Grey"
      ],
      "description": "A political leader who came into office after Featherstone’s death."
    },
    {
      "name": "Shelley",
      "aliases": [
        "Percy Bysshe Shelley"
      ],
      "description": "A poet Mr. Brooke compares to Will’s enthusiasm for liberty."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Thomas Browne",
      "aliases": [
        "Thomas Browne"
      ],
      "description": "A writer whose phrase Will recalls."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dante",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A poet compared with Beatrice in a discussion of lovers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Beatrice",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Dante’s beloved, mentioned in a comparison about lovers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Petrarch",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A poet compared with Laura in a discussion of lovers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Laura",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Petrarch’s beloved, mentioned in a comparison about lovers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pratt",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The butler at Lowick and an old acquaintance of Will."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Spanning",
      "aliases": [
        "Spanning"
      ],
      "description": "A doctor who praises Casaubon’s tractate."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Archdeacon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed church official whom Casaubon visits."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lowth",
      "aliases": [
        "the author of Lowth"
      ],
      "description": "An author of a grammar book Casaubon asks Dorothea to read."
    },
    {
      "name": "Arabella Hawley",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman mentioned by Rosamond as having died of consumption."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Godwin Lydgate",
      "aliases": [
        "Uncle Godwin",
        "Lydgate’s uncle"
      ],
      "description": "Tertius Lydgate’s doctor of divinity uncle, a baronet at Quallingham. He refuses Rosamond’s secret request for financial help and tells Tertius to manage on his own."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Bretton",
      "aliases": [
        "old Mrs. Bretton"
      ],
      "description": "A deceased woman whose former house Lydgate takes for his home."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Hawley",
      "aliases": [
        "Hawley"
      ],
      "description": "A lawyer and town clerk who distrusts Brooke’s politics and Will. He and his party support the Tory candidate Pinkerton."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Plessy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A man Mrs. Cadwallader mentions as staying in bed and playing dominoes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Henry Brougham",
      "aliases": [
        "Brougham"
      ],
      "description": "A political figure associated with Whiggish politics."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bagster",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An experienced parliamentary candidate whom Hawley expects the Whigs to support."
    },
    {
      "name": "Oliver",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Peelite whom Brooke’s political allies hope to defeat."
    },
    {
      "name": "Keck",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The editor or manager of the “Trumpet,” which attacks Brooke and Will."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dagley",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Dagley"
      ],
      "description": "Brooke’s dissatisfied tenant at Freeman’s End, husband of Mrs. Dagley and father of Jacob."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jacob Dagley",
      "aliases": [
        "Dagley’s little lad"
      ],
      "description": "Dagley’s young son, caught killing a leveret."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Dagley",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Dagley’s overworked wife and Jacob’s mother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fag",
      "aliases": [
        "the sheep-dog"
      ],
      "description": "Dagley’s sheep-dog."
    },
    {
      "name": "The unnamed footman",
      "aliases": [
        "the footman"
      ],
      "description": "A servant at Tipton Grange who reports Jacob’s capture."
    },
    {
      "name": "Johnson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Brooke’s keeper, who briefly locks Jacob in a stable."
    },
    {
      "name": "Flavell",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Methodist preacher whom Brooke recalls being accused of killing a hare."
    },
    {
      "name": "Young",
      "aliases": [
        "the poet Young"
      ],
      "description": "A poet whose phrase Brooke recalls."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nimrod",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A biblical hunter invoked by Brooke."
    },
    {
      "name": "Friedrich von Raumer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person Brooke cites as saying a century had passed since yesterday."
    },
    {
      "name": "Giles",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unsuccessful Middlemarch parliamentary candidate."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Dagley’s father",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Dagley’s father, who farmed the same land before him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Dagley’s grandfather",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Dagley’s grandfather, who farmed the same land before him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Christy Garth",
      "aliases": [
        "Christy"
      ],
      "description": "A Garth son studying in Scotland, who hopes to become a tutor and scholar."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jim Garth",
      "aliases": [
        "Jim"
      ],
      "description": "One of Caleb and Susan Garth’s sons."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator’s sun-watcher",
      "aliases": [
        "Uriel"
      ],
      "description": "A personified watcher from the sun invoked by the narrator."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Ballard",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs. Ballard’s husband"
      ],
      "description": "The husband of Mrs. Ballard, whose pupils Alfred criticizes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Ballard",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman whose school pupils Alfred criticizes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Cranch",
      "aliases": [
        "Cranch"
      ],
      "description": "Sister Martha’s husband."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bott",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person associated with land containing clay suitable for bricks."
    },
    {
      "name": "A well-educated young lady",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman Joshua Rigg intends to marry."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Raffles",
      "aliases": [
        "Raffles"
      ],
      "description": "Joshua Rigg Featherstone’s swaggering stepfather, who blackmails Bulstrode and reveals facts about Will’s mother’s family. He dies at Stone Court."
    },
    {
      "name": "Leonard Lamb",
      "aliases": [
        "Ba-Lamb"
      ],
      "description": "A school principal who once taught John Raffles."
    },
    {
      "name": "Carp & Company",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A group of critics whose sneers about Casaubon’s work fuel his resolve."
    },
    {
      "name": "Laennec",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A physician who investigated fatty degeneration of the heart and introduced the stethoscope."
    },
    {
      "name": "William Shakespeare",
      "aliases": [
        "Shakespeare"
      ],
      "description": "The playwright whose Henry VIII is cited in an epigraph."
    },
    {
      "name": "Huskisson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A man killed by the railway, mentioned by Raffles."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Dollop",
      "aliases": [
        "the landlady of the Tankard"
      ],
      "description": "The Tankard’s landlady, whose suspicions reflect local opposition to Lydgate’s hospital. She voices popular accusations that Bulstrode and Lydgate were implicated in Raffles’s death."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Goby",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Middlemarch woman whose relatives are offended when Lydgate asks to examine her body after death."
    },
    {
      "name": "Doctor Gambit",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Gambit"
      ],
      "description": "A Middlemarch practitioner who resents Lydgate’s methods."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dibbitts",
      "aliases": [
        "little Dibbitts"
      ],
      "description": "A druggist whom Toller says may benefit from Lydgate’s refusal to dispense medicines."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Mawmsey",
      "aliases": [
        "Mawmsey"
      ],
      "description": "A grocer, overseer, and asthmatic patient who questions Lydgate’s practice; Brooke tries to persuade him to support Reform."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Mawmsey",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mr. Mawmsey’s wife, who distrusts Lydgate’s approach to medicine."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Mawmsey’s intimate female friend",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman sitting with Mrs. Mawmsey."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Powderell",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mr. Powderell’s wife, treated for erysipelas."
    },
    {
      "name": "Widgeon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The maker or supplier of Purifying Pills."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nancy Nash",
      "aliases": [
        "Nancy"
      ],
      "description": "A charwoman misdiagnosed by Minchin and treated by Lydgate."
    },
    {
      "name": "The staymaker",
      "aliases": [
        "the staymaker in whose attic Nancy lodges"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed tradesman with whom Nancy lodges."
    },
    {
      "name": "The staymaker’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "the staymaker’s wife"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who lodges Nancy and fetches Lydgate."
    },
    {
      "name": "The house-surgeon",
      "aliases": [
        "the young house-surgeon"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young doctor at the Infirmary who hears Lydgate’s diagnosis."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. St. John Long",
      "aliases": [
        "St. John Long"
      ],
      "description": "A medical practitioner whose supposed cures are discussed as an example of charlatanism."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Cheshire",
      "aliases": [
        "Cheshire"
      ],
      "description": "A man Mrs. Taft recalls using irons to straighten people."
    },
    {
      "name": "Raspail",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A researcher whose work Lydgate sees as aligned with his investigation of the origin of tissues."
    },
    {
      "name": "Andreas Vesalius",
      "aliases": [
        "Vesalius"
      ],
      "description": "A sixteenth-century anatomist whom Lydgate admires for advancing anatomy despite opposition."
    },
    {
      "name": "Galen",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An ancient physician whose mistaken anatomical claims Vesalius challenged."
    },
    {
      "name": "Antoine Lavoisier",
      "aliases": [
        "Lavoisier"
      ],
      "description": "A chemist invoked by the narrator as an example of a vigorous mistaken quest helping prepare later discoveries."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord John Russell",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A political leader whose Reform measure is debated in Parliament."
    },
    {
      "name": "Webbe",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A country practitioner from Crabsley whom Lydgate plans to invite to the fever hospital."
    },
    {
      "name": "Protheroe",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A practitioner from Brassing whom Lydgate plans to call for exceptional operations."
    },
    {
      "name": "Burke",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A statesman Will compares with Mr. Brooke."
    },
    {
      "name": "Stanley",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A political figure whose criticism of Parliament Will invokes in debate with Lydgate."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Drayton",
      "aliases": [
        "Drayton"
      ],
      "description": "A poet whose lines Will recalls about a woman’s praise."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Lowick congregation’s new clergyman",
      "aliases": [
        "the new clergyman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed clergyman who leads the service at Lowick after the Tuckers have left."
    },
    {
      "name": "Brother Samuel",
      "aliases": [
        "Samuel"
      ],
      "description": "A member of the rural Powderell family at Lowick Church, noted for his purple cheek."
    },
    {
      "name": "Celia’s baby",
      "aliases": [
        "the baby",
        "her little man",
        "Arthur"
      ],
      "description": "Celia and Sir James’s infant son, named Arthur after Mr. Brooke."
    },
    {
      "name": "The oracular nurse",
      "aliases": [
        "the nurse"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed nurse at Freshitt Hall whom Celia consults about her baby."
    },
    {
      "name": "Garratt",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A servant at Freshitt who is asked to stay in the next room while Celia tends her baby."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fly",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mary Garth’s small black-and-tan terrier."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Crowse",
      "aliases": [
        "Crowse"
      ],
      "description": "A clergyman Mary considers affected and ridiculous."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pinkerton",
      "aliases": [
        "the old Tory member"
      ],
      "description": "The sitting Tory member for the constituency, whom Brooke’s party hopes to defeat."
    },
    {
      "name": "The political personage from Brassing",
      "aliases": [
        "the speaker from Brassing"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed political ally who introduces Brooke at a campaign meeting and speaks at length."
    },
    {
      "name": "Chatham",
      "aliases": [
        "Pitt, the elder"
      ],
      "description": "A political figure invoked by Brooke during his campaign speech."
    },
    {
      "name": "William Pitt the Younger",
      "aliases": [
        "the younger Pitt"
      ],
      "description": "A political figure whom Brooke says lacked ideas."
    },
    {
      "name": "The heckler in the crowd",
      "aliases": [
        "the loud rough voice"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man who interrupts Brooke’s campaign speech, demanding the Reform Bill."
    },
    {
      "name": "The invisible Punch",
      "aliases": [
        "the mocking echo",
        "the parrot-like voice"
      ],
      "description": "An unseen ventriloquist voice that repeats and mocks Brooke during his campaign speech; Bowyer is suspected of producing it."
    },
    {
      "name": "The effigy of Mr. Brooke",
      "aliases": [
        "Brooke’s effigy"
      ],
      "description": "A rag image of Brooke displayed and pelted with eggs during his campaign speech."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Vigo",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A former reader and secretary to royal personages whom Lady Chettam proposes as a companion for Dorothea at Lowick."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Triton",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A prospective marquis whom Mrs. Cadwallader considers a suitable match for Dorothea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Beevor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman cited by Lady Chettam as an example of a widow who remarried before a year of mourning had passed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Grinsell",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mrs. Beevor’s stepfather, reportedly distressed by her remarriage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Beevor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mrs. Beevor’s second husband, said to have abused her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Teveroy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Lord Grinsell’s second wife and Mrs. Beevor’s mother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dido",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A legendary queen mentioned by Mrs. Cadwallader in jest."
    },
    {
      "name": "Zenobia",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A historical queen mentioned by Mrs. Cadwallader in jest."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tom",
      "aliases": [
        "Caleb Garth’s assistant"
      ],
      "description": "A seventeen-year-old assistant to Caleb Garth who is knocked down and strains his ankle during a confrontation with railway agents."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hiram Ford",
      "aliases": [
        "Hiram"
      ],
      "description": "A wagoner who helps stir suspicion about the railway and joins the laborers’ attack on its agents."
    },
    {
      "name": "Timothy Cooper",
      "aliases": [
        "old Timothy Cooper",
        "Tim"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly laborer who distrusts the railway and argues that public works have not benefited the poor."
    },
    {
      "name": "Yoddrell",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The farmer at whose farm Caleb Garth leaves his gig while surveying land for Lowick Manor."
    },
    {
      "name": "Justice Blakesley",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A local magistrate Caleb warns the laborers they may face if they attack railway surveyors."
    },
    {
      "name": "Callum",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A clerk in Caleb Garth’s office who handles the books while Fred learns to write legibly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Brownie",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An active-minded, likely shallow mongrel in the Garth household who watches Ben’s archery and chases after him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The grizzled Newfoundland",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An elderly Newfoundland dog in the Garth household, lying in the sun with a dull-eyed air."
    },
    {
      "name": "The half-grown kitten",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A reluctant kitten Ben carries and later entangles in Mrs. Garth’s knitting."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louisa Vincy",
      "aliases": [
        "Louisa"
      ],
      "description": "A Vincy daughter whom Mr. Vincy plans to drive to Riverston with Mrs. Vincy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Lydgate",
      "aliases": [
        "the Captain"
      ],
      "description": "Sir Godwin Lydgate’s third son and Tertius Lydgate’s cousin. He visits the Lydgates and flirts with Rosamond, taking her riding on his gray horse."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Mengan",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Captain Lydgate’s married sister, who visits Rosamond for two nights while traveling from town."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Mengan’s maid",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed maid who accompanies Mrs. Mengan on her visit."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Dover",
      "aliases": [
        "Dover"
      ],
      "description": "A silversmith and jeweller who accepts a bill of sale on Lydgate’s furniture as security for the Lydgates’ debt."
    },
    {
      "name": "Edwin Larcher",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Larcher"
      ],
      "description": "A successful carrier who buys a furnished mansion near Riverston, prompting the sale of his former home’s furniture, books, and pictures."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Clintup",
      "aliases": [
        "Clintup"
      ],
      "description": "A diffident but distinguished nurseryman who buys a sharp-edged fender at Larcher’s auction."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Spilkins",
      "aliases": [
        "Spilkins"
      ],
      "description": "A young man from the neighborhood who buys a lot of drawing-room trifles and riddles at Larcher’s auction."
    },
    {
      "name": "Joseph",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed assistant who helps Mr. Trumbull handle lots at the auction."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman attending the marquee",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who serves refreshments at the marquee during Larcher’s sale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sarah Dunkirk",
      "aliases": [
        "Will’s mother",
        "Sarah"
      ],
      "description": "Will Ladislaw’s late mother and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dunkirk. She ran away from her family to join the stage, seeking to escape their disreputable business; Bulstrode knew where she was but concealed it."
    },
    {
      "name": "Will’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "Ladislaw’s father"
      ],
      "description": "Will Ladislaw’s late father, whom Raffles met in Boulogne and describes as emaciated by illness."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Dunkirk",
      "aliases": [
        "Will’s maternal grandfather"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy London businessman and Sarah Dunkirk’s father. His fortune came from a pawnbroking business that accepted goods without strict inquiry into their origin."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Dunkirk",
      "aliases": [
        "Will’s maternal grandmother"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Dunkirk’s pious widow and Sarah’s mother, who married Bulstrode after he concealed that her daughter had been found."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Raffles",
      "aliases": [
        "John Raffles",
        "Raffles",
        "Nick’s old friend"
      ],
      "description": "A swaggering, dissolute man who knows the secrets of Bulstrode’s past and Sarah Dunkirk’s family. He dies at Stone Court."
    },
    {
      "name": "Archie Duncan",
      "aliases": [
        "Archie"
      ],
      "description": "A man from Sarah Dunkirk’s family circle who spitefully revealed the family’s disreputable business after she rejected him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Dunkirks’ son",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Dunkirk’s son"
      ],
      "description": "The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Dunkirk, who died before his father."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Oriental missionary",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed missionary whose address the Bulstrode family attends."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Brassing coachman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed coachman whose coach carries Raffles away from Brassing."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Kell",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs. Kell"
      ],
      "description": "The Grange housekeeper who tells Dorothea that Will is in the library."
    },
    {
      "name": "The footman at the Grange",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed servant who tells Dorothea the horses are ready."
    },
    {
      "name": "Clara Harfager",
      "aliases": [
        "Clara"
      ],
      "description": "A young woman with a portion whom Mrs. Cadwallader suggests as a suitable wife for Lydgate."
    },
    {
      "name": "Justice Shallow",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A character whose words appear in the chapter epigraph."
    },
    {
      "name": "Imlac",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A character whose words appear in the chapter epigraph."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Harry Toller",
      "aliases": [
        "Harry Toller"
      ],
      "description": "A brewer who speculates that Lydgate’s Northern relations support his expensive way of living."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sophy Toller",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Sophy Toller"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Harry Toller’s daughter, engaged to marry Ned Plymdale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Henrietta Noble",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Farebrother’s sister, whom his mother thinks Rosamond fails to notice; likely Miss Noble."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Croly",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A celebrated beauty from 1790 whom Sir Godwin compares Rosamond to."
    },
    {
      "name": "Uncle Charles Lydgate",
      "aliases": [
        "Charles"
      ],
      "description": "Tertius Lydgate’s uncle, who has resented his choice not to enter the uncle’s profession."
    },
    {
      "name": "Young Hawley",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A young man newly returned from law studies in town, an accomplished billiards player and a visitor to the Green Dragon."
    },
    {
      "name": "The waiter at the Green Dragon",
      "aliases": [
        "the waiter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed waiter who carries Farebrother’s message to Fred."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Abel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The housekeeper at Stone Court who cares for Raffles during his final illness and gives information about the case."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Spicer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A shoemaker and parish clerk at Lowick who carries news of Raffles’s death from Middlemarch."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Spicer’s brother",
      "aliases": [
        "the respectable bell-hanger in Lowick Gate"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed bell-hanger whose report to his brother helps spread news of Raffles’s death."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Hopkins",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A meek-mannered draper opposite the Green Dragon who joins the gossip about Raffles and Bulstrode."
    },
    {
      "name": "Faulkner",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A man to whom Bambridge says he sold a pair of black horses in 1819."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Limp",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A meditative shoemaker with weak eyes and a piping voice who joins the discussion at Dollop’s."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Crabbe",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A glazier who gathers and repeats local gossip about Bulstrode and Raffles."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Dill",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A barber who repeats what Hawley’s clerk Fletcher supposedly said about the effort to remove Bulstrode."
    },
    {
      "name": "The dyer",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Jonas"
      ],
      "description": "A good-natured, firm-voiced dyer who takes part in the gossip at Dollop’s and suggests that Raffles’s body be examined."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Baldwin",
      "aliases": [
        "the tax-gatherer"
      ],
      "description": "A tax-gatherer who had accused Bulstrode of gaining his fortune by theft and swindling."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Byles",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A butcher to whom Lydgate pays an overdue bill after receiving Bulstrode’s loan."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Hackbutt",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mr. Hackbutt’s wife, who speculates about Mrs. Bulstrode and advises that she separate from her husband."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Sprague",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Middlemarch woman who joins the discussion of the Bulstrode scandal and its effect on his wife and Rosamond."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Tom Toller",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Middlemarch woman who discusses the Bulstrode scandal and its religious implications."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Thesiger",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The rector’s wife, whom Mrs. Bulstrode tries to visit after her husband’s public disgrace."
    },
    {
      "name": "Walter Vincy",
      "aliases": [
        "Walter"
      ],
      "description": "Rosamond’s brother, who tells Harriet Bulstrode about the scandal surrounding Bulstrode and Lydgate and offers to stand by her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Martha",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The Lydgates’ sole house-servant, who admits Dorothea and is unaware that Will has visited Rosamond."
    },
    {
      "name": "Master Bunney",
      "aliases": [
        "old Master Bunney"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly Lowick gardener with sixty years’ experience of local soils and crops."
    },
    {
      "name": "The schoolmaster at Lowick",
      "aliases": [
        "the master"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed teacher at the Lowick schoolhouse who speaks with Dorothea about the new school bell."
    },
    {
      "name": "The schoolmistress at Lowick",
      "aliases": [
        "the mistress"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed teacher at the Lowick schoolhouse who speaks with Dorothea about the new school bell."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Farebrother family’s goats",
      "aliases": [
        "the pair of beautiful goats"
      ],
      "description": "Two goats kept as village pets by Mr. Farebrother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dorothea and Will’s son",
      "aliases": [
        "Dorothea’s son"
      ],
      "description": "The son of Dorothea and Will Ladislaw, who inherits Mr. Brooke’s estate and later declines a parliamentary seat."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rosamond’s second husband",
      "aliases": [
        "the elderly physician"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed wealthy physician whom Rosamond marries after Lydgate’s death; he accepts her four children."
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