Themes
Key
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Evidence and Law
Morality, Crime, and Punishment
Identity and Appearance
Marriage and Gender
Class, Industry, and Social Place
Summary
Analysis
The doctor, Mr. Goodricke, who attended Lady Glyde during her last illness and death, provides the death certificate, which he signed. He confirms that Lady Glyde had recently turned twenty-one and that she died on the 5th of July 1850, from an aneurism.
The doctor has made up the death certificate from the information he received from Count Fosco; that the young woman who died in his house was Laura, or Lady Glyde.
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