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* [[Clear My Name]]: Dorothea rallies her friends to Lydgate's side once he is {{spoiler|wrongly implicated in Raffles' death.}}

* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: A less extreme example than some, and somewhat disguised, but the way that Raffles finds Bulstrode, and the fact that Bulstrode turns out to be {{spoiler|Ladislaw's step-grandfather}}, both seem to be large coincidences. Par for the course in a Victorian novel, though.

* [[Death of the Hypotenuse]]: Casaubon tries desperately to avert this.

* [[Doorstopper]]: It's 800 pages and the most exciting things that happens are the deaths of two characters, a provincial doctor's threatened disgrace and the coming of age of a idealistic young woman. That said, this troper thinks it's great.

** Probably the Britlit equivalent to War and Peace -- the Guardian once held is up as an example of that great novel that you really should have read, but never did.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Raffles (another link to the gambling theme).

* [[Names to Trust Immediately]]: Mr. Farebrother.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: ...Possibly. Casaubon may have been modeled on one of Eliot's acquaintances, the Oxford scholar Mark Pattison, then engaged on a biography of Isaac Casaubon. Pattison was [[May-December Romance|over twenty years older than his wife]].

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Mr. Brooke for Dorothea and Celia.