She marries the wealthy but jealous Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt, who already has several children with Lydia Glasher, but seeks solace with the title character, a Zionist who rescues Mirah Lapidoth.
This character's first conversation with her future husband is punctuated by parenthetical comments describing what she is thinking during the pauses. She loses an archery contest to Juliet Fenn. In his preface to one edition of the novel in which she appears, F. R. Leavis suggested that the novel should be named after this character. When her family falls into financial trouble, she considers a career in entertainment, but is discouraged by Herr Klesmer because she is too old to start training. When we first meet this character, she loses 200 pounds at the roulette table, forcing her to pawn her necklace. She marries the wealthy but jealous Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt, who already has several children with Lydia Glasher, but seeks solace with the title character, a Zionist who rescues Mirah Lapidoth. For 10 points, name this heroine of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda.
This character's first conversation with her future husband is punctuated by parenthetical comments describing what she is thinking during the pauses.
Gwendolen Harleth [accept either]