In the finale, the narrator summarizes the lives of many of the Middlemarch residents.
Fred Vincy and Mary Garth marry and live at Stone Court. Marriage seems to settle Fred. He saves wisely and buys some of the rights to Stone Court from Bulstrode. They have three boys.
Lydgate, however, dies at the young age of fifty. Rosamond lives without him with her four children.
Dorothea and Will Ladislaw marry as well, and live in London. Celia reacts with sadness when she learns by letter that Dorothea has had a son. James Chettam, seeing the sorrow in his wife, ends his disownment of the Ladislaw family. The two sisters regularly visit after that. Dorothea's son eventually inherits Tipton Grange.
Though she did much good for the world of Middlemarch, beginning with the hospital,.....
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