Lit. G.

Eliot, Middlemarch
CHARACTER CHART
Mr Dagley
Impoverished tenant Mr Bambridge
Arthur Brooke (<60) Horse dealer
John Raffles (55)
Uncle, Owner of Blackmailer,
TIPTON GRANGE Riggs’ stepfather Nicholas Bulstrode (<60) Harriet
Julia
Casaubon
1 Religious hypocrite, 2 Bulstrode
Banker, lives at the SHRUBS (née Vincy)
Ancestor

Elinor Humphrey
Dorothea Brooke (≈ 19) Celia Brooke (≈ 18) Sir James Chettam Cadwallader Cadwallader
Miss Brooke/ Sister with Local squire, Matchmaker Rector of TIPTON
& FRESHITT
Mrs Casaubon “Common sense” Baronet of FRESHITT

Mr Trumbull (35)
Town auctioneer

Solomon Walter Vincy

Jane Waule Featherstone
2 Peter 2nd Wife Lucy Vincy (45) Mayor of
1 Venal sister Innkeeper’s
Featherstone (<80) Middlemarch,
1st Wife, daughter (LOWICK GATE)
Caleb’s sister Rich uncle, owner n
John Waule (23) of STONE COURT
Selina Plymdale

Joshua Rigg (32) Sir Godwin Lydgate

Edward Casaubon (56) Will Ladislaw (23) Uncle
Illegitimate son Ned Plymdale
Dry scholar, Artistic cousin of Susan Caleb Garth
Suitor
Casaubon Garth Estate manager
Rector of LOWICK

Naumann
Christy Mary Garth (22) Fred Vincy (23) Tertius Lydgate (27) Rosamond Vincy (22)
Painter friend
Garth Peter’s niece, maid Spoiled wastrel, Young doctor Pretty, snobbish
at Stone Court frustrated heir
Miss Noble Mrs Farebrother (<70)

Winifred Camden Mr Wrench

Farebrother Farebrother (39) Captain Lydgate
Foppish cousin Rival doctor
Vicar of St. Botolph’s
Mr Tyke
Rival clergyman

With approximate age at beginning of book (c. 1830)