Thomas Jones
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142 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
Thomas Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A local.
Dr. Lydgate falls to the charms of the local beauty, Rosamund Vinci, and she's sort of attracted to the thought of his wealthy landed relatives, you know, his uncle with this grand house as she is to him.
And they marry, and again, that marriage is soon disappointing to both of them.
They fall into debt, and she has a miscarriage, and...
they are also unhappily married.
Rosamund's brother, Fred, is supposed to be studying to go into the church, although there are so many vicars in the novel already, you think there's really not space for another one.
And he really doesn't want to.
He also has debts that he's struggling to pay.
He's far too keen on horses and billiards and things like that.
But also he's in love with a sensible young woman who perhaps is close.
One of the many self-portraits of George Eliot, though I guess not that aspect of things, he may not talk about a great deal, called Mary Garth.
And she tells him that she'll never marry him if he becomes a clergyman.
So he instead becomes apprentice to her father, who's a land surveyor and a land agent and an honest, upright character.
Rosamund and Fred's father, Mr. Vinci, owns a textile factory or ribbon factory.
We'll talk about that more later.
He's also the mayor of Middlemarch.
And his sister, their aunt Harriet,
is married to Nicholas Bostrode, who is this puritanical and hypocritical banker.
And his murky past, and it's quite this sort of weirdly sort of gothic plot, really, which sort of seems in some ways out of place.
Somehow you imagine the study of provincial life and you have this story of sort of London and thieves and pawnbrokers and this whole other world, this sort of more Dickensian world, which...
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