Chapter 1
'Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.' Establishes her Puritan severity, her riding, and her hunger for self-renunciation.
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From Middlemarch by George Eliot
Dorothea is introduced as a young woman whose beauty is heightened by plain dress, with a passionate, ardent nature yearning for a higher purpose she cannot define.
Chapter 3
Dorothea fantasizes about marrying Casaubon as a Hooker or Milton, imagining she could 'learn to read Latin and Greek aloud to my father.'
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