![]() Second, they don't trust new ideas, and Lydgate is all about scientific progress. First of all, most of the residents of Middlemarch have lived in the town for their whole lives, and they don't trust newcomers. Meanwhile, an idealistic young doctor named Tertius Lydgate moves to Middlemarch to set up a practice with his new-fangled ideas about medicine and science. Dorothea quickly discovers that he cares more for his own scholarly pursuits than he does for her, but she can't do much about it (this is in the days before divorce was allowed for anything other than adultery or physical abuse). ![]() Her main ambition in life is to take on a noble project – so she marries a dried-up old scholar named Casaubon, thinking that helping him in his research will be the project she's after. But she's also so idealistic, it's almost laughable. She's got all the makings of a Victorian heroine: she's beautiful, intelligent, and generous. ![]() ![]() Dorothea Brooke is a young woman living with her uncle and sister in the small-but-growing town of Middlemarch, England in around 1830. ![]()
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