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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Eliot, George

Eliot, George
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Middlemarch: Chapters 11 - 21

Chapter Eleven

Dr. Lydgate is very much attracted to a young girl noticeably different
from Dorothea Brooke: Rosamond Vincy. Anxious to start his medical practice,
he feels that love and marriage are impractical until he becomes firmly
established in his profession. To Lydgate. Dorothea is too inquisitive,
opinionated, and moralistic.

Comment:

Lydgate's error here it that he is unable to see deeper into a person's
character.

His ambition is to reform the medical professional of his time, and such
a hope is not conducive ...

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