# Prince Turveydrop — Bleak House character guide

> Prince Turveydrop in Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Prince, Mr. Prince Turveydrop, young Mr. Turveydrop

**First appearance:** 0014-xiii-esther-s-narrative

## Snapshot

A gentle, overworked dancing master who supports his vain father's idle elegance, and who offers Caddy Jellyby the first honest kindness of her life.

## Who they are

Prince Turveydrop runs the family dancing academy while his father, the Model of Deportment, poses in the drawing room and takes the credit. Shy, tireless, and quietly devoted, he sees in Caddy Jellyby a fellow creature starved of approval, and their courtship becomes one of the novel's few genuinely tender threads. His patient labor against his father's ornamental indolence makes him a small, sharp counterpoint to the book's grander parasites.

## Relationships

### [Caddy Jellyby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bleak_house_se/characters/caddy_jellyby)

_romantic_

Caddy and Prince are young lovers who marry despite the interference of their demanding parents.

### [Caddy Jellyby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bleak_house_se/characters/caddy_jellyby)

_romantic_

Caddy and Prince are young lovers who marry despite the interference of their demanding parents.

### [Caddy Jellyby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bleak_house_se/characters/caddy_jellyby)

_romantic_

Caddy and Prince are young lovers who marry despite the interference of their demanding parents.

## In the story

### [Deportment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bleak_house_se/chapters/xiv-deportment)

Hardworking dancing master; works twelve hours a day for his father.

### [Esther's Narrative](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bleak_house_se/chapters/xxiii-esther-s-narrative)

Engaged to Caddy; respectfully informs his father of the engagement.

### [A Struggle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bleak_house_se/chapters/xxxviii-a-struggle)

Caddy's husband, a dancing-master who teaches apprentices and plays the piano for lessons.

### [L: Esther’s Narrative](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bleak_house_se/chapters/l-esther-s-narrative)

Caddy's husband; visits softly, plays guitar for the baby, shows loving anxiety.

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