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Esther Summerson
Esther Summerson is a young woman who is brought up by her godmother, Miss Barbary. When Miss Barbary dies, Esther is taken in by the philanthropist, John Jarndyce. Esther becomes a governess to Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, two wards in Chancery. Esther eventually learns more about her family, contracts smallpox, and learns the identity of her mother, who dies not long after. She becomes engaged to Mr. Jarndyce, her guardian, but ultimately marries a doctor named Allan Woodcourt who had fallen in love with her over the course of the novel.