Inside the story
Meet Dorothea Brooke
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.
On the page
A tall, striking young woman of about nineteen or twenty with a fine, dignified figure and beautiful expressive hands and wrist; her open, youthful face is grave and radiant, often described as looking as if from a fresh, blooming complexion, and she dresses in plain, unadorned Quakerish garments.
