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Teachers & SchoolsWe watch Louisa, Gradgrind's daughter and human guinea pig, grow from about twelve to about...
Stephen is a power loom operator in Bounderby's factory. He married young, and his wife has since...
Gradgrind is a middle-class businessman and later a Member of Parliament. More importantly, he is...
Bounderby is a successful capitalist who owns a factory and a bank in Coketown. He brags about...
Tom is Louisa's brother, and is raised in the same manner that she is. He ends up a degenerate...
Sissy is the daughter of a circus performer, who comes to live with the Gradgrinds as a servant...
Rachael is a factory worker who was childhood friends with Stephen's wife. She is now in love...
Harthouse is a well-born young guy who is trying to get into Parliament. He's in the same...
Mrs. Sparsit is Bounderby's middle-aged housekeeper. She was born into money and a high ranking...
As a boy, Bitzer is Gradgrind's best student. As a young man, he becomes the light porter at...
There's not too much to say about Stephen's wife, Mrs. Blackpool. A few things: note that it's...
Mrs. Pegler is the little old woman who comes to town once a year to gaze at Bounderby. She is...
Mrs. Gradgrind is passive, sickly, dim-witted, and not very present in the novel or in her...
Slackbridge is the union representative sent out to organize the workers at Bounderby's factory....