Thomas Jones
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first heard Aug 2026
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But she is instead smitten by the unlikely to everyone but her figure of Mr. Cazabon, who is a middle-aged clergyman,
approaching the immensely old age of 50 who has been toiling for decades on the research for a book to be called the key to all mythologies which is one of many quixotic schemes in the novel and Dorothea falls for him it seems to be more or less because he's he's the first other person she's met who's read a book and they marry they go to Rome on honeymoon where they meet Cazabon's cousin Will Ladislaw who's he's in his 20s he's artistically romantically minded and
The narrator and characters often compare him to the poet Percy Shelley, who we talked about a bit in our last episode on Frankenstein.
And Dorothea is very quickly disappointed in her marriage, and the reality of which falls very far short of her hopes.
So she is, I don't think it's a spoiler to say she will be released from it halfway through the novel by Casabon's death.
The first time I read the novel, this is a terrible realisation.
First time I read it, I was younger than Dorothea.
And I am now older than Cazabon, which is quite the memento mori, because he's only in his 40s.
But on the plus side, I enjoy the novel far more now than as a teenager.
It's more alert to its many ironies and its humour, which I think is really important to talk about how funny it is.
It's an incredibly funny book.
And I think there's something sort of straightforwardly true in that assessment of Virginia Woolf's that it's one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.
And I think, you know, better to read it when you're 49 than when you're 19.
It's sort of my...
One takeaway from this episode, that's it.
But anyway, meanwhile, back in Middlemarch, we have an ambitious young doctor, Tertius Lydgate, who has wealthy relations but no money of his own to speak of, has arrived to take over an old doctor's medical practice.
He's full of the latest ideas and hopes to make a world historical medical breakthrough that he can write up for the scientific papers.
So, I mean, interestingly, something he has in common with Casablanca.
And he's hired to run the new infirmary for no pay by Mr. Bulstrode, a puritanical and, as we soon find out, hypocritical banker, who's also originally an outsider to Middlemarch.
He's not...
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