# Dick Primrose — The Vicar of Wakefield character guide

> Dick Primrose in The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** little Dick, brother Dick

**First appearance:** 0002-i

## Who they are

One of the younger Primrose children.

## In the story

### [A Proof That Even the Humblest Fortune May Grant Happiness](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_wakefield_se/chapters/iv)

Receives a Sunday waistcoat made from his sisters' altered gowns.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_wakefield_se/chapters/vi)

Offers his part of the bed to Mr. Burchell, demonstrating hospitality, and is rewarded with a lump of sugar.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_wakefield_se/chapters/xiii)

Recites the fable of the Giant and the Dwarf at his father's request.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_wakefield_se/chapters/xv)

Brings in the letter-case found on the green.

### [Chapter XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_wakefield_se/chapters/xvii)

Brings the news of Olivia's elopement to the family.

### [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_wakefield_se/chapters/xxii)

One of the little ones rescued from the burning house.

### [Chapter XXVI: A Reformation in the Gaol](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_vicar_of_wakefield_se/chapters/xxvi)

One of the Vicar's young sons, who expresses that he is not afraid to sleep anywhere his father is.

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