Harriet Bulstrode, Walter Vincy’s sister is a kind, honest, religious woman. He purchases Stone Court from Joshua Rigg Featherstone.Īnother interesting point is brief character sketches. When the scandal about his past and the circumstances of Raffle’s death become known, Bulstrode leaves Middlemarch is shame. However, he disobeys Lydgate’s medical advice, and Raffles dies as a result. When Raffles becomes ill, Bulstrode cares for him. John raffles blackmails him with this information. He bribed the man he hired to find her, John raffles, to keep quiet. Will Ladislaw, but he kept her existence a secret. Bulstrode protected the daughter and her child. Her daughter had run away years before, and she insisted that Bulstrode find her daughter before she re-married, because she wanted to leave her wealth to her only surviving child. He married Will Ladislaw’s grandmother after her first husband died. He is married to Walter Vincy’s sister, Bulstrode professes to be a deeply religious Evangelical Protestant, but he has dark past: he made his fortune as a pawnbroker selling stolen goods. While Nicholas Bulstrode is a wealth Middlemarch banker. The scandal resulting from his hypocrisy prompts him to improve conditions on his own estate, Tipton Grange. He runs for a seat in Parliament on the Reform platform, but he let his own tenants live in poverty and squalor. He hires Will Ladislaw to write for his paper. He is humbling man who can never stick to an opinion, always wanting to please everyone. To cite few examples we find Brooke, Dorothea and Celia’s bachelor uncle. In the whirlpool of incidents we find many immortal characters and incidents in the novel.
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