# Edward Casaubon — Middlemarch character guide

> Edward Casaubon in Middlemarch by George Eliot.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Mr. Casaubon, Casaubon, Poor Mr. Casaubon, the Reverend Edward Casaubon

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

A dry, scholarly clergyman who marries Dorothea and works on a never-finished book.

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