Gregg’s Reviews > Middlemarch > Status Update

Chapters 82-86: Dorothea speaks with Rosamond. Rosamond and Lydgate try to come to an understanding. Bulstrode helps Mr Vincy help Fred. Mary commits to Fred. Dorothea and Ladislaw reunite.

Chapters 78-81: Lydgate struggles with everything. Dorothea sees Rosamond and Ladislaw together. Ladislaw unloads on Rosamond. Lydgate accepts help from Dorothea and Dorothea has words with Rosamond.

Chapters 72-76: Bulstrode’s fall and confession to Mrs Bulstrode. Rosamond hears all and does not understand. Dorothea entreats Lydgate to let her help him.

Chapters 69-71: The death of Raddles. The complicity of Bulstrode and the complicity of Lydgate.

Chapters 66-68: Lydgate deals with Rosamond’s obstinacy and subterfuge. He tries gambling. Fred rescues him and is corrected by Farebrother.

Chapters 63-65: Lydgate struggles to manage debt. Rosamond takes matters into her own hands. Lydgate struggles to manage Rosamond.

Chapters 60-62: Raddles meets Ladislaw. Bulstrode comes clean to Ladislaw. Dorothy and Ladislaw say goodbye-bye (again).

Chapters 57-59: Fred has it out with Mary about Farebrother. Tertius talks to Rosamond about their finances. Ladislaw learns about Casaubon’s will.

Chapter 56: Fred takes up business with Caleb Garth & makes a mess of things. Fred makes up with his father.

Chapters 53-55: Brooke’s campaign crashes and burns. Ladislaw says goodbye to Dorothy. Dorothy prepares to be her own person. Celia pouts.