Dombey and Son · Character
Alice Marwood
A woman the world has branded 'fallen,' she returns with a fury that makes respectable London flinch and old wrongs demand settling.
supporting
Also known as Alice, Marwood, Alice Marwood, Ally
First appearance: Another Mother and Daughter
As a supporting figure in Dombey and Son, Alice Marwood is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Returns from transportation, hardened and bitter, confronting her mother about her neglected upbringing and the hypocrisy of the justice system.
Alice Marwood moves through the novel's shadow-world of debt, shame, and grudge, her bitterness sharpened by years of punishment for a crime others escaped. Her hunger for revenge fixes on those who used and discarded her, and she becomes a dark mirror to the respectable cruelty that ruined her. In the early-middle arc she is a threat and a warning: proof that the city's outcasts keep accounts of their own.
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Central characters and household
- Minor and background figures
- Kindred kind-hearted allies
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Rising action.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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See Alice Marwood in Another Mother and Daughter