This woman is revealed to be the illegitimate daughter of Krook's (*) dead lodger Captain Hawdon and the mistress of Chesney Wold, Lady Dedlock.
This character explains that her own beauty is superfluous given her family's overall radiance, just before abruptly ending the novel mid-sentence. Early in the novel, she rescues a child whose head is stuck between the railings of a banister. This character's maid removes all the mirrors from her surroundings to prevent her from seeing her smallpox-disfigured face. She symbolically buries her doll just before Kenge takes her from her godmother's house at age fourteen. This woman is revealed to be the illegitimate daughter of Krook's (*) dead lodger Captain Hawdon and the mistress of Chesney Wold, Lady Dedlock. Mr. Guppy makes one final cringeworthy proposal to this character on the eve of her wedding to the doctor Allan Woodcourt, whom she still loves despite accepting the proposal of her guardian John Jarndyce. For 10 points, name this heroine of Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House. 
This character explains that her own beauty is superfluous given her family's overall radiance, just before abruptly ending the novel mid-sentence.
Esther Summerson [or Esther Summerson; or Esther Hawdon; prompt on Hawdon before it is mentioned] 