This document provides an introduction and overview of the characters and relationships in George Eliot's novel Middlemarch. It introduces Eliot and provides background on when the novel was written and its focus on relationships in provincial life. It identifies the major characters like Dorothea Brook, Edward Casaubon, Rosamond Vincy, Tertius Lydgate, and Mary Garth. It provides more details on the relationships between Dorothea and Casaubon, Rosamond and Lydgate, and Mary Garth and Fred Vincy. The document aims to analyze these relationships as a "politics" in the novel.