A character in Middlemarch
Middlemarch by George Eliot
An ardent, idealistic young gentlewoman who marries the elderly scholar Casaubon out of a yearning for high purpose, then finds herself trapped in a joyless union while drawn toward Will Ladislaw.
Also known as: Miss Brooke, Mrs. Casaubon, Dodo
Inside the story
Dorothea Brooke is an ardent, idealistic young gentlewoman living in the Midlands with her sister, Celia. Wealthy and unmarried, she longs to devote her life to a serious moral purpose rather than the comforts and conventions expected of a woman of her position.
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