Middlemarch

Saint Theresa

Also known as Theresa

A Spanish woman who sought martyrdom as a child and later reformed a religious order.

Theresa’s younger brother

The boy who accompanied Theresa on her childhood pilgrimage.

Dorothea Brooke

Also known as Miss Brooke · Dodo

The elder Brooke sister, devoted to helping others. She gives up her inheritance to marry Will Ladislaw, and they have a son.

Celia Brooke

Also known as Celia · Kitty

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.

Mr. Brooke

Also known as Brooke

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.

Sir James Chettam

Also known as Chettam

A baronet, married to Celia and protective of Dorothea. He never approves of Dorothea’s marriage to Will, though he eventually reconciles with them.

Edward Casaubon

Also known as Mr. Casaubon

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.

Monsieur Liret

Also known as the Vaudois clergyman

A Vaudois clergyman whose conferences on Waldensian history impressed Dorothea.

Mrs. Cadwallader

Also known as the Rector’s wife · Elinor

The witty rector’s wife, known for her sharp judgments. She predicts that Dorothea will marry Will and comments on the family’s reaction.

Madame Poincon

A woman known to the Brooke sisters for wearing ornaments.

Monk

Also known as the Great St. Bernard dog

A large dog who accompanies and looks after the young women.

Sir Humphry Davy

Also known as Davy

A scientist whom Mr. Brooke recalls dining with.

William Wordsworth

Also known as Wordsworth · the poet Wordsworth

A poet whom Mr. Brooke recalls meeting at dinner.

John Locke

Also known as Locke

A philosopher whose portrait Dorothea thinks Casaubon resembles.

Sancho Panza

Also known as Sancho

A character in a Cervantes passage quoted in the novel.

Don Quixote

Also known as Don Quijote

A character in a Cervantes passage quoted in the novel.

John Milton

Also known as Milton

The poet Dorothea imagines she would have married and cared for.

Richard Hooker

Also known as Hooker

A theologian Dorothea imagines she would have married to save him from an unhappy marriage.

William Wilberforce

Also known as Wilberforce

A political reformer cited by Mr. Brooke as a model.

Robert Southey

Also known as Southey

A poet and historian whose account of the Peninsular War Mr. Brooke reads.

Mr. Lovegood

Also known as Lovegood

Sir James’s associate who helps assess and carry out estate improvements.

Tantripp

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.

Mrs. Cadwallader’s maid

An unnamed servant whose information about Sir James’s intentions reaches Tantripp.

Sir James’s man

An unnamed servant said to know Sir James intends to marry Dorothea.

John

Sir James’s groom, who takes away the Maltese puppy.

Bunch

Also known as the sheep-stealer

A condemned sheep-stealer whose case Mr. Brooke tried to help.

Sir Samuel Romilly

Also known as Romilly

A legal reformer whom Mr. Brooke says might have helped Bunch.

Corydon

Sir James’s chestnut horse, offered to Dorothea.

Dorothea and Celia’s mother

Also known as mamma

The late mother of the Brooke sisters.

The Maltese puppy

A tiny puppy Sir James brings for Dorothea’s approval.

Celia’s tiny terrier

A small dog Celia once loved.

Dorothea’s sick laborer

An unnamed laborer Dorothea once prayed for.

The curate’s children

Unnamed children Celia visits at the vicarage.

The curate

An unnamed clergyman whose children Celia visits.

Mrs. Fitchett

A lodge-keeper who discusses fowls and pigeons with Mrs. Cadwallader.

Master Fitchett

Mrs. Fitchett’s husband, interested in pigeon varieties.

Humphrey Cadwallader

Also known as Mr. Cadwallader · the Rector

The rector of Freshitt and Mrs. Cadwallader’s husband. He urges Sir James to consider Dorothea’s decision more fairly.

Sir James’s mother

Also known as Lady Chettam · the Dowager Lady Chettam

Sir James’s widowed mother, who advises that Dorothea should have a companion at Lowick. She disapproves of Dorothea’s planned marriage.

Will Ladislaw

Also known as Mr. Ladislaw · young Ladislaw · Mr. Will Ladislaw

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.

Mr. Tucker

Also known as Tucker

The curate at Lowick, who accompanies visitors around the parish.

Casaubon’s mother

Casaubon’s late mother, depicted in a miniature at Lowick.

Casaubon’s aunt

Also known as his mother’s elder sister · Julia

Casaubon’s aunt Julia, Will’s grandmother, disowned after marrying a poor Polish refugee.

Casaubon’s father

Casaubon’s deceased father, shown in a family portrait.

Casaubon’s maternal grandmother

Casaubon’s deceased maternal grandmother, shown in a family portrait.

Casaubon’s uncle

Casaubon’s deceased brother, whose death left him Lowick manor-house and land.

The Pole

The unnamed Polish refugee who married Casaubon’s aunt and earned his living teaching.

Henry of Navarre

A historical figure invoked by the narrator.

Alfred the Great

A historical figure invoked by the narrator.

Lord Tapir

A high-born relation of Mrs. Cadwallader, described as an idiotic young lord.

Lord Megatherium

A high-born relation of Mrs. Cadwallader, described as an irritable old lord.

The unnamed young sketcher

Also known as the young gentleman with a sketch-book

A young man seen sketching at Lowick, later identified as Will Ladislaw.

Mr. Standish

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.

Mr. Bulstrode

Also known as Bulstrode · Nicholas

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.

Mr. Chichely

A bachelor and coursing enthusiast at the Grange dinner-party.

Miss Vincy

Also known as Rosamond Vincy · Rosamond · Rosy

The beautiful Vincy daughter who marries Lydgate. She later raises their children, continues to remember Dorothea’s generosity, and remarries after Lydgate’s death.

Mrs. Renfrew

Also known as the colonel’s widow

A colonel’s widow whose illness is discussed at the Grange dinner-party.

Mr. Lydgate

Also known as Tertius Lydgate · Lydgate

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.

Mr. Hicks

Also known as Hicks

Lady Chettam’s late medical attendant, trusted for his judgment.

Mr. Vincy

Also known as the mayor · the manufacturer

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.

Mr. Grainger

Also known as Grainger

A man Mr. Vincy recalls as having been reduced to a skeleton by illness or treatment.

Mr. Peacock

Also known as Peacock

The doctor whose practice Lydgate bought; he had treated Featherstone and Bulstrode.

Mr. Wrench

Also known as Wrench

The Vincy family doctor, hostile to Lydgate’s methods and judgment.

Mrs. Vincy

Also known as Rosamond’s mother · mamma · Lucy

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.

Mr. Featherstone

Also known as Peter Featherstone · Featherstone · Uncle Featherstone

A wealthy landowner and the Vincys’ uncle by marriage. His wills leave most of his estate to Joshua Rigg.

Mr. Fred Vincy

Also known as Fred Vincy · Fred

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.

Mr. Bulstrode’s wife

Also known as Mrs. Bulstrode

Bulstrode’s wife and Mr. Vincy’s sister.

Mrs. Waule

Also known as Jane Waule · Jane Featherstone

Peter Featherstone’s widowed sister and mother of John Waule.

Solomon Waule

Also known as Solomon

Mrs. Waule’s brother and Peter Featherstone’s brother.

Mary Garth

Also known as Mary

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.

John Waule

Also known as John

Mrs. Waule’s son, who visits Mary Garth.

Rebecca Featherstone

Also known as Rebecca

A niece of Peter Featherstone, willing to nurse him.

Joanna Featherstone

Also known as Joanna

A niece of Peter Featherstone, willing to nurse him.

Elizabeth Featherstone

Also known as Elizabeth

A niece of Peter Featherstone, willing to nurse him.

Miss Morgan

A teacher who gives lessons to the younger Vincy girls.

Mrs. Lemon

Also known as Mrs. Lemon’s schoolteacher

The head of a leading girls’ school where Rosamond and Mary studied.

Pritchard

A servant in the Vincy household.

Mr. Waule

Also known as Waule

Mrs. Waule’s late husband.

The unnamed lender to Fred

A person Featherstone suspects may have lent Fred money against an expected inheritance.

Unnamed servant at Stone Court

A servant who answers Featherstone’s bell.

Simmons

Featherstone’s farm-bailiff.

Mr. Farebrother

Also known as Farebrother · Camden Farebrother

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.

Mr. Tyke

Also known as Tyke

A clergyman Bulstrode wants appointed hospital chaplain.

Lord Medlicote

A landowner who contributes land and timber to the hospital.

Harriet Bulstrode

Also known as Harriet · Mrs. Bulstrode

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.

Mr. Vincy’s deceased brother

Also known as Vincy’s brother

Mr. Vincy’s late brother, a clergyman.

Dr. Toller

Also known as Toller

A Middlemarch physician who favors older methods.

Dr. Sprague

Also known as Sprague

A Middlemarch physician who consults on Fred’s illness and dislikes Lydgate’s perceived arrogance.

Dr. Minchin

Also known as Minchin

A Middlemarch physician who distrusts Lydgate’s methods.

Sir William Jenner

Also known as Jenner

A physician Lydgate admires for the value of his work.

Xavier Bichat

Also known as Bichat

A French anatomist who inspired Lydgate’s scientific ambitions.

Friedrich Herschel

Also known as Herschel

An astronomer cited by the narrator as a great discoverer.

Madame Laure

Also known as Laure · the Provençal actress · the Provencale

A married Provençal actress who deliberately stabs her husband during a performance.

Madame Laure’s husband

Also known as the unfortunate lover

The husband whom Madame Laure stabs during a performance.

Madame Laure’s child

The unnamed child Madame Laure carries in a performance.

The unnamed narrator

Also known as the narrator

The participating narrative voice that tells the story and reflects on its characters.

Tegg the shoemaker’s son

An unnamed young man whose apprenticeship Bulstrode helps arrange.

Tegg

A Middlemarch shoemaker and father of an apprentice.

Mrs. Strype

A washerwoman whom Bulstrode defends in a dispute over her drying-ground.

Stubbs

A person Bulstrode accuses of making an unjust demand of Mrs. Strype.

Mr. Bowyer

Also known as Bowyer

A Middlemarch resident known for comic singing and ventriloquism. He is suspected of echoing and mocking Brooke during his campaign speech.

Louis

A physician and author whose work on fever Lydgate studies.

Sir Charles Sedley

Also known as Sedley

A poet quoted in a chapter epigraph.

Mrs. Farebrother

Also known as the Vicar’s mother

Farebrother’s mother, who runs his household.

Miss Noble

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.

Miss Winifred Farebrother

Also known as Winifred Farebrother

Farebrother’s elder sister, dependent on her mother.

Griffin

A person whose wife reports a threat from Tyke.

Griffin’s wife

A woman who reports that Tyke threatened to withhold coals if she and Griffin attended Farebrother’s sermons.

Trawley

Lydgate’s former Paris roommate and Farebrother’s correspondent.

Mr. Frank Hawley

Also known as Frank Hawley

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.

Mr. Powderell

Also known as Powderell

A retired ironmonger and infirmary director who supports Tyke.

Mr. Hackbutt

Also known as Hackbutt

A wealthy tanner who opposes Bulstrode’s control of the infirmary appointment.

Mr. Plymdale

Also known as Plymdale

An infirmary board member who supports Tyke.

Mr. Larcher

Also known as Larcher

A carrier who considers Farebrother too lax for a clergyman.

Reverend Edward Thesiger

Also known as Mr. Thesiger

The rector of St. Peter’s who supports his friend Tyke for hospital chaplain.

Rev. Walter Tyke

Also known as Mr. Tyke · Tyke

A zealous clergyman appointed infirmary chaplain after Lydgate casts the deciding vote.

Mrs. Wimple

A woman with a stomach complaint who appeals to Dr. Minchin’s views on providence.

The Unitarian brewer

A brewer who jokes about the Athanasian Creed.

Mr. Louis’s Paris acquaintance

An unnamed person mentioned in the context of Louis’s fever book.

Lord Chancellor

Also known as the Lord Chancellor

An unnamed Lord Chancellor used as a comparison for Dr. Sprague’s authority.

The German artist

Also known as the dark-eyed, animated German · Adolf Naumann

A German painter in Rome who befriends Will and uses Dorothea and Casaubon as models.

Maid-servant accompanying Dorothea

An unnamed servant traveling with Dorothea and Casaubon in Rome.

The courier

Also known as their experienced courier

The experienced courier accompanying the Casaubons in Rome.

Thorwaldsen

A living artist in Rome whom Will takes the Casaubons to see.

Santa Clara

The saint Dorothea is asked to represent in Naumann’s sketch.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Also known as the Angelical Doctor · the scholastic

The theologian whose likeness Naumann sketches using Casaubon as a model.

Mr. Bambridge

Also known as Bambridge

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.

Mr. Horrock

Also known as Horrock · Horrock “the vet”

A veterinarian who accompanies Fred and Bambridge to Houndsley.

Caleb Garth

Also known as Mr. Garth

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.

Susan Garth

Also known as Mrs. Garth

Mary’s mother, a former teacher who helps repay Fred’s debt with her savings.

Mary and Fred’s childhood ring

A brass ring used in childhood play; an object rather than a character.

The unnamed young farmer

Also known as the farmer

A young farmer who trades Diamond to Fred.

Diamond

A vicious dappled-gray hunter sold to Fred.

Pegwell

Also known as the corn-factor

A corn-factor who once owned a horse Bambridge considered buying.

The groom injured by Diamond

Also known as the groom

An unnamed groom nearly kicked by Diamond.

The unnamed man from Lord Medlicote

Also known as Lord Medlicote’s man

An employee of Lord Medlicote looking for a dappled-gray horse.

The old bay horse

Also known as Fred’s broken-winded horse · Fred’s old horse

Fred’s broken-winded horse, traded toward the purchase of Diamond.

Ben Garth

Also known as Ben

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.

Letty Garth

Also known as Letty

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.

Alfred Garth

Also known as Alfred

Caleb and Susan Garth’s son, intended for an engineering apprenticeship.

Sally

A servant in the Garth household.

Tortoise

Also known as old Tortoise

The Garth household’s cat.

Fanny Hackbutt

Also known as Fanny

A pupil who takes lessons from Susan Garth.

Mr. Hanmer

Also known as Hanmer

The person to whom Alfred Garth may be apprenticed.

Mrs. Piozzi

Also known as Piozzi

An author whose recollections of Johnson Mary reads.

Samuel Johnson

Also known as Johnson

A writer discussed in Mrs. Piozzi’s book.

Cincinnatus

A Roman statesman whose story Susan teaches the Garth children.

Job

Also known as old Job

An unnamed person known to the Garth children for distinctive pronunciation.

Mr. Wrench’s wife

Also known as Wrench’s wife

An unnamed woman and mother of seven in Mr. Wrench’s household.

Ellen Bulstrode

Also known as Ellen

A patient Lydgate cured, mentioned by Rosamond.

Mrs. Larcher

A woman whose children had measles and received care from Wrench.

Mrs. Taft

Also known as Taft

A Middlemarch woman who gathers information while knitting.

Mr. Ned Plymdale

Also known as Ned Plymdale · young Plymdale

Mrs. Plymdale’s son, who courts Rosamond and resents Lydgate.

Mrs. Plymdale

Also known as Selina

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.

Mr. Caius Larcher

Also known as Caius Larcher

A young Middlemarch man Rosamond considers less polished than Lydgate.

The Honorable Mrs. S.

A woman whose portrait Ned Plymdale compares to Rosamond.

Lady Blessington

A celebrated writer mentioned by Rosamond.

L. E. L.

A celebrated writer mentioned by Rosamond.

Sir Walter Scott

Also known as Scott

A writer whose poems and novels shaped the Garth children’s childhood.

The eminent philosopher

Also known as the philosopher among the narrator’s friends

An unnamed philosopher and friend of the narrator who demonstrates how light changes the appearance of scratches.

Kate Bulstrode

Also known as Kate

A young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bulstrode.

The tiny black spaniel

The Bulstrodes’ small dog.

Abraham

A biblical patriarch invoked by Harriet Bulstrode.

Moses

A biblical patriarch invoked by Harriet Bulstrode.

Joshua Rigg

Also known as Rigg

Peter Featherstone’s previously undisclosed son and heir, also known as Josh. He sells Stone Court to Bulstrode.

Brother Jonah Featherstone

Also known as Jonah · Brother Jonah

Peter Featherstone’s brother, who stays at Stone Court and receives little from the will.

Sister Martha

Also known as Mrs. Cranch · Martha

Peter Featherstone’s sister, married to Mr. Cranch.

Young Cranch

Also known as Tom · Peter Featherstone’s nephew

Sister Martha’s nineteen-year-old son.

Mr. Borthrop Trumbull

Also known as Trumbull

A local auctioneer and second cousin of Peter Featherstone, known for his lively sales patter. He conducts the sale of Edwin Larcher’s belongings.

The Middlemarch mercer

Also known as the second cousin

An unnamed second cousin of Peter Featherstone who attends the will reading.

The Brassing cousin who gave presents

Also known as one of the two cousins from Brassing

An elderly cousin of Peter Featherstone who believes presents to him created a claim.

The saturnine Brassing cousin

Also known as the other cousin from Brassing

An elderly cousin of Peter Featherstone who believes his general merit gives him a claim.

Daniel

The author of the tragedy Philotas, quoted in an epigraph.

George the Fourth

Also known as George IV

The recently deceased king mentioned in the political context.

Lord Grey

Also known as Grey

A political leader who came into office after Featherstone’s death.

Shelley

Also known as Percy Bysshe Shelley

A poet Mr. Brooke compares to Will’s enthusiasm for liberty.

Sir Thomas Browne

Also known as Thomas Browne

A writer whose phrase Will recalls.

Dante

A poet compared with Beatrice in a discussion of lovers.

Beatrice

Dante’s beloved, mentioned in a comparison about lovers.

Petrarch

A poet compared with Laura in a discussion of lovers.

Laura

Petrarch’s beloved, mentioned in a comparison about lovers.

Pratt

The butler at Lowick and an old acquaintance of Will.

Dr. Spanning

Also known as Spanning

A doctor who praises Casaubon’s tractate.

The Archdeacon

An unnamed church official whom Casaubon visits.

Lowth

Also known as the author of Lowth

An author of a grammar book Casaubon asks Dorothea to read.

Arabella Hawley

A woman mentioned by Rosamond as having died of consumption.

Sir Godwin Lydgate

Also known as Uncle Godwin · Lydgate’s uncle

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.

Mrs. Bretton

Also known as old Mrs. Bretton

A deceased woman whose former house Lydgate takes for his home.

Mr. Hawley

Also known as Hawley

A lawyer and town clerk who distrusts Brooke’s politics and Will. He and his party support the Tory candidate Pinkerton.

Lord Plessy

A man Mrs. Cadwallader mentions as staying in bed and playing dominoes.

Henry Brougham

Also known as Brougham

A political figure associated with Whiggish politics.

Bagster

An experienced parliamentary candidate whom Hawley expects the Whigs to support.

Oliver

A Peelite whom Brooke’s political allies hope to defeat.

Keck

The editor or manager of the “Trumpet,” which attacks Brooke and Will.

Dagley

Also known as Mr. Dagley

Brooke’s dissatisfied tenant at Freeman’s End, husband of Mrs. Dagley and father of Jacob.

Jacob Dagley

Also known as Dagley’s little lad

Dagley’s young son, caught killing a leveret.

Mrs. Dagley

Dagley’s overworked wife and Jacob’s mother.

Fag

Also known as the sheep-dog

Dagley’s sheep-dog.

The unnamed footman

Also known as the footman

A servant at Tipton Grange who reports Jacob’s capture.

Johnson

Brooke’s keeper, who briefly locks Jacob in a stable.

Flavell

A Methodist preacher whom Brooke recalls being accused of killing a hare.

Young

Also known as the poet Young

A poet whose phrase Brooke recalls.

Nimrod

A biblical hunter invoked by Brooke.

Friedrich von Raumer

A person Brooke cites as saying a century had passed since yesterday.

Giles

An unsuccessful Middlemarch parliamentary candidate.

Mr. Dagley’s father

Dagley’s father, who farmed the same land before him.

Mr. Dagley’s grandfather

Dagley’s grandfather, who farmed the same land before him.

Christy Garth

Also known as Christy

A Garth son studying in Scotland, who hopes to become a tutor and scholar.

Jim Garth

Also known as Jim

One of Caleb and Susan Garth’s sons.

The narrator’s sun-watcher

Also known as Uriel

A personified watcher from the sun invoked by the narrator.

Mr. Ballard

Also known as Mrs. Ballard’s husband

The husband of Mrs. Ballard, whose pupils Alfred criticizes.

Mrs. Ballard

A woman whose school pupils Alfred criticizes.

Mr. Cranch

Also known as Cranch

Sister Martha’s husband.

Bott

A person associated with land containing clay suitable for bricks.

A well-educated young lady

An unnamed woman Joshua Rigg intends to marry.

John Raffles

Also known as Raffles

Joshua Rigg Featherstone’s swaggering stepfather, who blackmails Bulstrode and reveals facts about Will’s mother’s family. He dies at Stone Court.

Leonard Lamb

Also known as Ba-Lamb

A school principal who once taught John Raffles.

Carp & Company

A group of critics whose sneers about Casaubon’s work fuel his resolve.

Laennec

A physician who investigated fatty degeneration of the heart and introduced the stethoscope.

William Shakespeare

Also known as Shakespeare

The playwright whose Henry VIII is cited in an epigraph.

Huskisson

A man killed by the railway, mentioned by Raffles.

Mrs. Dollop

Also known as the landlady of the Tankard

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.

Mrs. Goby

A Middlemarch woman whose relatives are offended when Lydgate asks to examine her body after death.

Doctor Gambit

Also known as Mr. Gambit

A Middlemarch practitioner who resents Lydgate’s methods.

Dibbitts

Also known as little Dibbitts

A druggist whom Toller says may benefit from Lydgate’s refusal to dispense medicines.

Mr. Mawmsey

Also known as Mawmsey

A grocer, overseer, and asthmatic patient who questions Lydgate’s practice; Brooke tries to persuade him to support Reform.

Mrs. Mawmsey

Mr. Mawmsey’s wife, who distrusts Lydgate’s approach to medicine.

Mrs. Mawmsey’s intimate female friend

An unnamed woman sitting with Mrs. Mawmsey.

Mrs. Powderell

Mr. Powderell’s wife, treated for erysipelas.

Widgeon

The maker or supplier of Purifying Pills.

Nancy Nash

Also known as Nancy

A charwoman misdiagnosed by Minchin and treated by Lydgate.

The staymaker

Also known as the staymaker in whose attic Nancy lodges

An unnamed tradesman with whom Nancy lodges.

The staymaker’s wife

Also known as the staymaker’s wife

An unnamed woman who lodges Nancy and fetches Lydgate.

The house-surgeon

Also known as the young house-surgeon

An unnamed young doctor at the Infirmary who hears Lydgate’s diagnosis.

Mr. St. John Long

Also known as St. John Long

A medical practitioner whose supposed cures are discussed as an example of charlatanism.

Mr. Cheshire

Also known as Cheshire

A man Mrs. Taft recalls using irons to straighten people.

Raspail

A researcher whose work Lydgate sees as aligned with his investigation of the origin of tissues.

Andreas Vesalius

Also known as Vesalius

A sixteenth-century anatomist whom Lydgate admires for advancing anatomy despite opposition.

Galen

An ancient physician whose mistaken anatomical claims Vesalius challenged.

Antoine Lavoisier

Also known as Lavoisier

A chemist invoked by the narrator as an example of a vigorous mistaken quest helping prepare later discoveries.

Lord John Russell

A political leader whose Reform measure is debated in Parliament.

Webbe

A country practitioner from Crabsley whom Lydgate plans to invite to the fever hospital.

Protheroe

A practitioner from Brassing whom Lydgate plans to call for exceptional operations.

Burke

A statesman Will compares with Mr. Brooke.

Stanley

A political figure whose criticism of Parliament Will invokes in debate with Lydgate.

Mr. Drayton

Also known as Drayton

A poet whose lines Will recalls about a woman’s praise.

The Lowick congregation’s new clergyman

Also known as the new clergyman

An unnamed clergyman who leads the service at Lowick after the Tuckers have left.

Brother Samuel

Also known as Samuel

A member of the rural Powderell family at Lowick Church, noted for his purple cheek.

Celia’s baby

Also known as the baby · her little man · Arthur

Celia and Sir James’s infant son, named Arthur after Mr. Brooke.

The oracular nurse

Also known as the nurse

An unnamed nurse at Freshitt Hall whom Celia consults about her baby.

Garratt

A servant at Freshitt who is asked to stay in the next room while Celia tends her baby.

Fly

Mary Garth’s small black-and-tan terrier.

Mr. Crowse

Also known as Crowse

A clergyman Mary considers affected and ridiculous.

Pinkerton

Also known as the old Tory member

The sitting Tory member for the constituency, whom Brooke’s party hopes to defeat.

The political personage from Brassing

Also known as the speaker from Brassing

An unnamed political ally who introduces Brooke at a campaign meeting and speaks at length.

Chatham

Also known as Pitt, the elder

A political figure invoked by Brooke during his campaign speech.

William Pitt the Younger

Also known as the younger Pitt

A political figure whom Brooke says lacked ideas.

The heckler in the crowd

Also known as the loud rough voice

An unnamed man who interrupts Brooke’s campaign speech, demanding the Reform Bill.

The invisible Punch

Also known as the mocking echo · the parrot-like voice

An unseen ventriloquist voice that repeats and mocks Brooke during his campaign speech; Bowyer is suspected of producing it.

The effigy of Mr. Brooke

Also known as Brooke’s effigy

A rag image of Brooke displayed and pelted with eggs during his campaign speech.

Mrs. Vigo

A former reader and secretary to royal personages whom Lady Chettam proposes as a companion for Dorothea at Lowick.

Lord Triton

A prospective marquis whom Mrs. Cadwallader considers a suitable match for Dorothea.

Mrs. Beevor

A woman cited by Lady Chettam as an example of a widow who remarried before a year of mourning had passed.

Lord Grinsell

Mrs. Beevor’s stepfather, reportedly distressed by her remarriage.

Captain Beevor

Mrs. Beevor’s second husband, said to have abused her.

Mrs. Teveroy

Lord Grinsell’s second wife and Mrs. Beevor’s mother.

Dido

A legendary queen mentioned by Mrs. Cadwallader in jest.

Zenobia

A historical queen mentioned by Mrs. Cadwallader in jest.

Tom

Also known as Caleb Garth’s assistant

A seventeen-year-old assistant to Caleb Garth who is knocked down and strains his ankle during a confrontation with railway agents.

Hiram Ford

Also known as Hiram

A wagoner who helps stir suspicion about the railway and joins the laborers’ attack on its agents.

Timothy Cooper

Also known as old Timothy Cooper · Tim

An elderly laborer who distrusts the railway and argues that public works have not benefited the poor.

Yoddrell

The farmer at whose farm Caleb Garth leaves his gig while surveying land for Lowick Manor.

Justice Blakesley

A local magistrate Caleb warns the laborers they may face if they attack railway surveyors.

Callum

A clerk in Caleb Garth’s office who handles the books while Fred learns to write legibly.

Brownie

An active-minded, likely shallow mongrel in the Garth household who watches Ben’s archery and chases after him.

The grizzled Newfoundland

An elderly Newfoundland dog in the Garth household, lying in the sun with a dull-eyed air.

The half-grown kitten

A reluctant kitten Ben carries and later entangles in Mrs. Garth’s knitting.

Louisa Vincy

Also known as Louisa

A Vincy daughter whom Mr. Vincy plans to drive to Riverston with Mrs. Vincy.

Captain Lydgate

Also known as the Captain

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.

Mrs. Mengan

Captain Lydgate’s married sister, who visits Rosamond for two nights while traveling from town.

Mrs. Mengan’s maid

The unnamed maid who accompanies Mrs. Mengan on her visit.

Mr. Dover

Also known as Dover

A silversmith and jeweller who accepts a bill of sale on Lydgate’s furniture as security for the Lydgates’ debt.

Edwin Larcher

Also known as Mr. Larcher

A successful carrier who buys a furnished mansion near Riverston, prompting the sale of his former home’s furniture, books, and pictures.

Mr. Clintup

Also known as Clintup

A diffident but distinguished nurseryman who buys a sharp-edged fender at Larcher’s auction.

Mr. Spilkins

Also known as Spilkins

A young man from the neighborhood who buys a lot of drawing-room trifles and riddles at Larcher’s auction.

Joseph

An unnamed assistant who helps Mr. Trumbull handle lots at the auction.

The woman attending the marquee

An unnamed woman who serves refreshments at the marquee during Larcher’s sale.

Sarah Dunkirk

Also known as Will’s mother · Sarah

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.

Will’s father

Also known as Ladislaw’s father

Will Ladislaw’s late father, whom Raffles met in Boulogne and describes as emaciated by illness.

Mr. Dunkirk

Also known as Will’s maternal grandfather

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.

Mrs. Dunkirk

Also known as Will’s maternal grandmother

Mr. Dunkirk’s pious widow and Sarah’s mother, who married Bulstrode after he concealed that her daughter had been found.

Mr. Raffles

Also known as John Raffles · Raffles · Nick’s old friend

A swaggering, dissolute man who knows the secrets of Bulstrode’s past and Sarah Dunkirk’s family. He dies at Stone Court.

Archie Duncan

Also known as Archie

A man from Sarah Dunkirk’s family circle who spitefully revealed the family’s disreputable business after she rejected him.

The Dunkirks’ son

Also known as Mr. Dunkirk’s son

The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Dunkirk, who died before his father.

The Oriental missionary

An unnamed missionary whose address the Bulstrode family attends.

The Brassing coachman

An unnamed coachman whose coach carries Raffles away from Brassing.

Mr. Kell

Also known as Mrs. Kell

The Grange housekeeper who tells Dorothea that Will is in the library.

The footman at the Grange

An unnamed servant who tells Dorothea the horses are ready.

Clara Harfager

Also known as Clara

A young woman with a portion whom Mrs. Cadwallader suggests as a suitable wife for Lydgate.

Justice Shallow

A character whose words appear in the chapter epigraph.

Imlac

A character whose words appear in the chapter epigraph.

Mr. Harry Toller

Also known as Harry Toller

A brewer who speculates that Lydgate’s Northern relations support his expensive way of living.

Sophy Toller

Also known as Miss Sophy Toller

Mr. Harry Toller’s daughter, engaged to marry Ned Plymdale.

Henrietta Noble

Farebrother’s sister, whom his mother thinks Rosamond fails to notice; likely Miss Noble.

Mr. Croly

A celebrated beauty from 1790 whom Sir Godwin compares Rosamond to.

Uncle Charles Lydgate

Also known as Charles

Tertius Lydgate’s uncle, who has resented his choice not to enter the uncle’s profession.

Young Hawley

A young man newly returned from law studies in town, an accomplished billiards player and a visitor to the Green Dragon.

The waiter at the Green Dragon

Also known as the waiter

An unnamed waiter who carries Farebrother’s message to Fred.

Mrs. Abel

The housekeeper at Stone Court who cares for Raffles during his final illness and gives information about the case.

Mr. Spicer

A shoemaker and parish clerk at Lowick who carries news of Raffles’s death from Middlemarch.

Mr. Spicer’s brother

Also known as the respectable bell-hanger in Lowick Gate

An unnamed bell-hanger whose report to his brother helps spread news of Raffles’s death.

Mr. Hopkins

A meek-mannered draper opposite the Green Dragon who joins the gossip about Raffles and Bulstrode.

Faulkner

A man to whom Bambridge says he sold a pair of black horses in 1819.

Mr. Limp

A meditative shoemaker with weak eyes and a piping voice who joins the discussion at Dollop’s.

Mr. Crabbe

A glazier who gathers and repeats local gossip about Bulstrode and Raffles.

Mr. Dill

A barber who repeats what Hawley’s clerk Fletcher supposedly said about the effort to remove Bulstrode.

The dyer

Also known as Mr. Jonas

A good-natured, firm-voiced dyer who takes part in the gossip at Dollop’s and suggests that Raffles’s body be examined.

Mr. Baldwin

Also known as the tax-gatherer

A tax-gatherer who had accused Bulstrode of gaining his fortune by theft and swindling.

Mr. Byles

A butcher to whom Lydgate pays an overdue bill after receiving Bulstrode’s loan.

Mrs. Hackbutt

Mr. Hackbutt’s wife, who speculates about Mrs. Bulstrode and advises that she separate from her husband.

Mrs. Sprague

A Middlemarch woman who joins the discussion of the Bulstrode scandal and its effect on his wife and Rosamond.

Mrs. Tom Toller

A Middlemarch woman who discusses the Bulstrode scandal and its religious implications.

Mrs. Thesiger

The rector’s wife, whom Mrs. Bulstrode tries to visit after her husband’s public disgrace.

Walter Vincy

Also known as Walter

Rosamond’s brother, who tells Harriet Bulstrode about the scandal surrounding Bulstrode and Lydgate and offers to stand by her.

Martha

The Lydgates’ sole house-servant, who admits Dorothea and is unaware that Will has visited Rosamond.

Master Bunney

Also known as old Master Bunney

An elderly Lowick gardener with sixty years’ experience of local soils and crops.

The schoolmaster at Lowick

Also known as the master

An unnamed teacher at the Lowick schoolhouse who speaks with Dorothea about the new school bell.

The schoolmistress at Lowick

Also known as the mistress

An unnamed teacher at the Lowick schoolhouse who speaks with Dorothea about the new school bell.

The Farebrother family’s goats

Also known as the pair of beautiful goats

Two goats kept as village pets by Mr. Farebrother.

Dorothea and Will’s son

Also known as Dorothea’s son

The son of Dorothea and Will Ladislaw, who inherits Mr. Brooke’s estate and later declines a parliamentary seat.

Rosamond’s second husband

Also known as the elderly physician

An unnamed wealthy physician whom Rosamond marries after Lydgate’s death; he accepts her four children.