![]() ![]() In her new neighborhood, she meets Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt, who quickly proposes to her. In the wake of her stepfather's death, Gwendolen's family relocates. A servant delivers her recently sold necklace back to her, and Gwendolen understands that Daniel saw her pawn it and repurchased it for her. ![]() She pawns a necklace, considering using the money to gamble further, in the hope of remaking her fortune and saving her family. Gwendolen finds out, the night after losing her personal savings in a game of roulette, that her family is financially ruined. Daniel is both attracted and repulsed by Gwendolyn Harleth, a beautiful young woman with a gambling problem. The novel begins in the fictional town of Leubronn, Germany. ![]() A novel by celebrated Victorian writer George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Daniel Deronda (1876) follows the intertwined stories of Daniel Deronda, the compassionate charge of a wealthy gentleman who withholds from him his true identity, and the beautiful and ambitious, but self-centered Gwendolen Harleth. ![]()
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