Inside the story
Meet Rosamond Vincy
Rosamond Vincy, the beautiful and self-willed daughter of Middlemarch’s mayor, moves through local society with accomplished charm and a strong sense of her own importance. At the story’s outset, she is drawn to the ambitious doctor Tertius Lydgate, whose attention fits her hopes for an elegant future.
On the page
A slender young woman with a graceful, nymph-like figure and pure fair blondness, with fine light hair often worn in plaits, a swan-like neck, and exquisite taste in dress; considered the flower of Mrs. Lemon's school.
