Krook is an alcoholic who runs a rag and bottle shop and lodging house in Bleak House. His tenants include Nemo and Miss Flite. He dies when he spontaneously combusts. Crisparkle, Canon Minor canon of Cloisterham Cathedral. "Mr Crisparkle, Minor Canon, early riser, musical, classical, cheerful, kind, good-natured, social, contented, and boy-like." He takes Neville Landless as a pupil and helps Neville flee to London when suspicion is cast on him for the disappearance of Edwin Drood in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Louisa is Grandgrind’s daughter, later becoming Bounderby’s wife. Confused by her cold-hearted childhood, Louisa feels detached from her emotions and alienated from other people. Louisa becomes the primary female character, however does not embody the Victorian feminine characteristics as Sissy does. Instead Louisa has become cold and lifeless through the life of her father. While at first Louisa unable to comprehend and function within the grey matter of emotions, she can at least recognise their existence and are more influential within society than her father or Bounderby lead her to believe, even without any factual basis. With the help of Sissy and Rachel, Louisa grows and progresses, blooming into a model woman. She defines the story. As she grows and changes as does the story, she is the timeline of feminism and her breakthrough symbolises the start of female equality.

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Rudge, Barnaby Sr the father of Barnaby and husband of Mary. He was the Steward at the Warren and murdered his employer, Reuben Haredale. He went into hiding after the murder and resurfaces years later trying to extort money from his wife. He is finally captured by Geoffrey Haredale and executed at Newgate in Barnaby Rudge. Lodge, David (2002). Consciousness and the Novel. Harvard, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-674-00949-3. Agnes is the perfect female character. She seems to have no faults and lives up to a higher moral code than all of the men that surround her. Meanwhile, David is full of faults. He is incapable of recognizing how compatible he and Agnes are together, at first mistaking her goodness and sacrifices for sisterhood rather than something that could turn into the romantic partnership of marriage. This causes his aunt, Betsey Trotwood, to remark that he is “Blind. blind!” (504). He instead chases after Dora, a pretty girl without much substance, but who is angelic in her standards of beauty and innocence. Even though it is clear that David and Dora re not compatible they marry and share a relationship that seems mostly based on his appreciation for her beauty. Despite the fact that Dora does nothing to help build David into the man he is capable of being, she is still viewed as an angelic figure because she does nothing sinful. Rudge, Barnaby A simple but good hearted boy who unwittingly gets involved in the Gordon Riots when he falls into bad company. He is later arrested and sentenced to death but gains reprieve through the help of Gabriel Varden in Barnaby Rudge. Gradgrind, Thomas A mill owner retired from business and father of Louisa and Tom. He runs a school and emphasises the importance of facts and figures over fancy to his students and his children. By the end of the story he learns that facts and figures must be tempered by love and forbearance in Hard Times.

Promoting women

Ghost of Christmas Past, The shows Scrooge his lonely and difficult childhood and gradual decline into the miser he will become in A Christmas Carol. Deputy (Winks) Boy hired by Durdles to throw stones at him when he is wandering drunk at night. "Sometimes the stones hit him, and sometimes they miss him, but Durdles seems indifferent to either fortune. The hideous small boy, on the contrary, whenever he hits Durdles, blows a whistle of triumph through a jagged gap, convenient for the purpose, in the front of his mouth, where half his teeth are wanting; and whenever he misses him, yelps out 'Mulled agin!' and tries to atone for the failure by taking a more correct and vicious aim." Deputy resides at the Travellers' Twopenny in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chester, John Father of Edward, tries to prevent Edward's marriage to Emma Haredale. Becomes a member of Parliament. Killed in a duel by Emma's uncle Geoffrey in Barnaby Rudge. During the reign of Queen Victoria, a woman’s place was within the home. A woman’s mind was seen as only capable to perform certain domestic and mothering jobs, and this was seen as sufficient emotional fulfilment. However, during the Victorian Era the role of women extended and Victorian feminism began to emerge. Cecilia Jupe embodies and epitomises the Victorian femininity that regulates mechanization and engineering. During the first chapter Sissy or ‘girl number twenty’ is largely portrayed as the incapable girl, who believes that flowers should be cast upon the floor, much to her alter ego’s, Mr Gradgrind’s disgust. One of Sissy’s original traits was her constant blushing and curtseying; women were compassionate and polite, never arguing and never having an opinion. Cecilia is again portrayed as incompetent when she is asked to define a horse, however is unable and shown up by an exaggerated ideal Gradgrind in the making, Bitzer, who with ease programmes his mind to calculate an exact answer and proves his right to be called a man, or machine. At the end of the chapter it seems Gradgrind slams a door on Cecilia’s mind telling her ‘you are never to fancy’ and lectures his students on the importance of ‘facts, facts, facts’ but if I am not mistaken this translates to ‘Men, Men, Men’. Sissy is an emotional girl, represented in her blushing blood filled cheeks, does not confine in Gradgrinds fact/men only perspective. She has personality and opinions and becomes a missing piece in the Gradgrind machine, flipping the story upside down. There has been a time since — I do not say it lasted long, but it has been —when I have asked myself the question, would it have been better for little Em’ly to have had the waters close above her head that morning in my sight; and when I have answered Yes, it would have been. (36)

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Shinn, Matt (31 January 2004). "Stage frights". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 4 November 2019 . Retrieved 12 September 2019. Dennis, Ned is the Executioner at Tyburn, becomes involved in the Gordon Riots and is executed in Barnaby Rudge.But Estella also has a positive role, according to Holbrook. He says, she is the start of Pip's ambitions and it is true, though it leads him to more pain and suffering than his apprenticed life with Joe and Biddy. But he finally learns his place in life and is content with what he has through this harrowing experience. He says, Pardiggle, Francis is Mrs Pardiggle's third son who is forced to participate in all her causes in Bleak House.