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Will Ladislaw
fictional character
Will Ladislaw, fictional character, a young headstrong idealist in who is one of the protagonists of the novel Middlemarch (1871–72) by George Eliot. Ladislaw is set in stark contrast to Edward Casaubon, his middle-aged and pedantic cousin, both of whom are attracted to Dorothea Brooke.
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