# Dorothea Brooke — Middlemarch character guide

> Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch by George Eliot.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Dorothea, Poor Dorothea, Dorothea Brooke, Miss Brooke, Mrs. Casaubon, Dodo

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

An idealistic young woman who marries the elderly scholar Edward Casaubon.

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