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Dorothea Brooke attempts to widen her underdeveloped intellect through marriage to the Reverend Edward Casaubon, a man twice her age. The marriage proves unsatisfying and ends with Casaubon's unexpected death. While still married, Dorothea meets Will Ladislaw, an event which leads to further complications.
Rev. Edward Casaubon / ˈ k æ z ə b ɑː n /: A pedantic, selfish, elderly clergyman who is so taken up with his scholarly research that his marriage to Dorothea is loveless. His unfinished book, The Key to All Mythologies , is intended as a monument to Christian syncretism , but his research is out of date as he cannot read German.
About 1752, Dorothea secretly married Du Bois, a French musician, and became the mother of six children. In 1759 she heard that her father had made a will leaving her five shillings , in quit of all demands, as his natural daughter; in 1760, on recovery from the birth of her sixth child, she undertook a journey to Camolin Park , Wexford , where ...
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Dorothea Amalia of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck: August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck) 1656 31 December 1686 13 June 1728 husband's death: 9 November 1739 Philipp Ernest I: Elisabeth Philippine von Friesenhausen: Philipp Sigismund von Friesenhausen (Friesenhausen) 19 August 1696 27 ...
Milton's divorce tracts refer to the four interlinked polemical pamphlets—The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, The Judgment of Martin Bucer, Tetrachordon, and Colasterion—written by John Milton from 1643 to 1645. They argue for the legitimacy of divorce on grounds of spousal incompatibility.
Dorothea Helen Puente (née Gray; January 9, 1929 – March 27, 2011) was an American convicted serial killer. In the 1980s, she ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California , and murdered various elderly and mentally disabled boarders before cashing their Social Security checks. [ 1 ]
Dorothea Maunsell became Dorothea Kingsman after being Dorothea Tenducci (born c. 1750) was an Irish singer at the centre of a scandal after she married (and later divorced) an Italian castrato opera singer named Giusto Fernando Tenducci. She had children with her second husband.