# Lady Chettam — Middlemarch character guide

> Lady Chettam in Middlemarch by George Eliot.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Lady Chettam, the Dowager Lady Chettam, the young Lady Chettam

**First appearance:** 0006-iii

## Who they are

Sir James's mother, a kindly but conventional dowager.

## In the story

### [LV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/middlemarch_se/chapters/lv)

Insists that a widow must wear mourning for at least a year and disapproves of premature remarriage. Takes offense at any perceived allusion to Dorothea in her anecdote about Mrs. Beevor.

### [LXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/middlemarch_se/chapters/lxvii)

Also traveling with Dorothea and Sir James.

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/middlemarch_se/characters/lady_chettam
- Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/middlemarch_se
- All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/middlemarch_se/characters