![]() ![]() One more detail: though it was published in the 1870s Eliot’s novel is actually set around the time of the First Reform Act of 1832. ![]() Sir James is a down-to-earth fellow, not the sort to go mooning after unattainable women. For he was not one of those gentlemen who languish after the unattainable Sappho’s apple that laughs from the topmost bough. Cadwallader must decide on another match for Sir James, and having made up her mind that it was to be the younger Miss Brooke, there could not have been a more skilful move towards the success of her plan than her hint to the baronet that he had made an impression on Celia’s heart. Her betrothal to Casaubon puts paid to that plan, but matchmaker Mrs Cadwallader is not thereby discouraged: So: the expectation had been that Dorothea would marry Sir James Chettam, an eligible, hearty and rather dim young baronet. This is a small, perhaps pedantic (but hopefully not full-on Casaubonic) note on a reference Eliot makes in the sixth chapter of Middlemarch. ![]()
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