In which Charles Dickens novel did Edith Grainger appear?

Answer 1

"Dombey and Son".

Paul Dombey's second wife is the widow of Colonel Granger and the daughter of Mrs Skewton. She marries Dombey but does not love him. She later elopes with Carker, a manager at Dombey's firm, to punish her husband.

Answer 2

Edith Granger was a character in DOMBEY & SON

Answer 3

Dombey and Son

Answer 4

Dombey and son

Answer 5

Bleak House.

Answer 6

Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. It was first published in monthly parts between October 1846 and 1848 with the full title Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation (now rarely used). Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne but travelled extensively during the course of its writing, returning to England to begin another work before completing Dombey and Son. Its serialization coincided with the publication of two other major Victorian novels: William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (1847–48) and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847).

Plot summary
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The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company of the book's title, whose dream is to have a son to continue his business. The book begins when his son is born, and Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth.

The child, also named Paul, is weak and often ill, and does not socialize normally with others; adults call him "old fashioned". He is intensely fond of his elder sister, Florence, whom Mr Dombey neglects as irrelevant and a distraction. He is sent away first for his health, and then to a school near the sea, but he dies, still only six years old.

Dombey pushes his daughter away from him after the death of his son, while she futilely tries to earn his love. She also develops a close friendship with Walter Gay, who once rescued her when she had gotten lost and been kidnapped as a child. Walter works for Dombey and Son, but through the manipulations of the firm's manager, Mr Carker, he is sent off to work in Barbados. His boat is reported lost and he is presumed drowned. Florence is left alone with few friends most of the time.

Dombey remarries; effectively he buys the daughter of an acquaintance in marriage. The marriage is a loveless one; his wife despises him as greedy and herself as shallow and worthless. Her love for Florence initially prevents her from leaving, but finally she conspires with Mr Carker that they shall ruin Dombey's public image by running away together. They do so after she fights with Dombey; when he discovers that she has left he blames Florence and expels her from his house as well. In Paris, Mrs Dombey informs Carker that she sees him in no better a light than she sees Dombey, and that she will not stay with him. Distraught, with both his financial and personal hopes lost, Carker falls under a train and is killed.

After Carker's disappearance it is discovered that he had been running the firm far beyond its means; within a year it collapses and is sold off and Dombey is left a shambles, nearly mad living alone in his decaying house.

Meantime Walter Gay returns home after being fortuitously saved from his shipwreck. He and Florence marry, and she reconciles with her father. Dombey finds happiness in the marriage of his daughter, and all ends well.

Characters in "Dombey and Son"

* Paul Dombey – the wealthy owner of the shipping company
* Paul Dombey – the son, is weak and often ill
* Florence Dombey – the elder daughter whom Mr Dombey neglects
* James Carker (Mr Carker the Manager) – manager in Dombey's business
* John Carker (Mr Carker the Junior) – older brother of James, lower level employee in Dombey's business
* Miss Harriet Carker – sister of James and John
* Solomon Gills – ships instrument maker and owner of shop "Wooden Midshipman"
* Walter Gay – nephew of Gills, friend to Florence, sent away by Carker
* Captain Edward Cuttle – retired sea captain, friend of Gills
* Major Joseph Bagstock – conceited retired army major
* Mrs Skewton – infirm former lover of Bagstock
* Edith – proud widowed daughter of Mrs Skewton, becomes second Mrs Dombey
* Toodles – a railway engineer
* Polly Toodles (aka Mrs Richards) – wife of Toodles, engaged as nurse to Paul
* Jack Bunsby – commander of a ship, regarded as an oracle by Captain Cuttle.
* Mrs MacStinger – Captain Cuttle's landlady