Hard Times | List of Characters

Thomas Gradgrind—a citizen of Coketown, proprietor of a model school, member of Parliament, father of Tom and Louisa.

Mrs. Gradgrind—Thomas Gradgrind’s ailing, complaining wife. She is a victim as much as her children to her husband’s regimen of Fact.

Tom Gradgrind—Thomas Gradgrind’s selfish, ne’er-do-well son, called “the whelp,” employed in Bounderby’s bank.

Louisa Gradgrind—Thomas Gradgrind’s eldest daughter. She is disastrously married to the much older industrialist Josiah Bounderby.

Mr. James Harthouse—a dilettante friend of...

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