Daniel Deronda Timeline and Summary

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• Daniel watches Gwendolen play roulette. He wonders if she's pretty or not.
• Daniel returns Gwendolen's necklace to her.
• We flash back to when Daniel was thirteen. He starts asking his tutor too many questions about the popes of history and all of their illegitimate children. All of a sudden he starts wondering about who his parents are and if it's possible that Sir Hugo is actually his father.
• Sir Hugo sends Daniel to Eton, a fancy British prep school. During his first vacation, Daniel comes back home to find that Sir Hugo has gotten married to Lady Mallinger.
• Daniel goes to Cambridge to study math. He doesn't get a scholarship because he spends too much helping his friend Hans try to get one.
• Daniel tells Sir Hugo that he wants to drop out of Cambridge and study abroad. Sir Hugo tells him that's fine.
• One day, Daniel goes out rowing on the Thames and sees a girl standing on the riverbank about to drown herself. He intervenes and brings her to live at the Meyricks' house.
• Gwendolen and Daniel meet face-to-face at Diplow; Gwendolen tells him she thinks he cast an evil eye on her gambling.
• Later, Daniel tells Gwendolen that he disapproves of gambling because you make a gain of someone else's loss.
• Daniel starts to become more and more interested in Judaism. He goes to the synagogue in Frankfort and meets an old man who asks Daniel who his mother is.
• Daniel catches up with Mirah.
• Daniel starts spending a lot of time wandering around the Jewish neighborhoods of London, partly hoping to find Mirah's family. He finds a shop with the name "Ezra Cohen" above the door.
• Daniel visits the shop and meets the whole Cohen family.
• Daniel goes back to the Cohens' home for supper on the Sabbath. He meets Mordecai formally – he had met him earlier in the bookstore in passing.
• At Christmas, Mr. Vandernoodt fills Daniel in on all of the gossip relating to Grandcourt and Lydia Glasher.
• Gwendolen asks Daniel for advice on what she should do. He tells her to try to be good.
• Daniel goes home. Hans has moved in with him for the time being.
• Mordecai and Daniel meet near Blackfriars Bridge. They go to the bookshop and Mordecai gives Daniel his backstory.
• Daniel and Mordecai go to the Hand and Banner.
• Daniel puts it all together that Mordecai is Mirah's long-lost brother.
• Gwendolen asks Daniel to come over one day. She spills her guts about her fears of being wicked.
• Sir Hugo tells Daniel that his birth mother wants to see him in Genoa. We find out that Sir Hugo isn't Daniel's dad.
• Daniel meets his mother and finds out that he's Jewish.
• Daniel sees the sailors bring Gwendolen in from the water.
• Gwendolen confesses everything to Daniel.
• Daniel goes to Mainz to meet Joseph Kalonymos.
• When Daniel gets back to London, he goes straight to Mordecai's place and tells him and Mirah that he is Jewish after all.
• Daniel tells Hans that he's Jewish.
• Daniel tells Gwendolen that he's Jewish.
• Daniel proposes to Mirah.
• Daniel tells Gwendolen that he proposed to Mirah.
• Daniel and Mirah get married.
• Mirah and Daniel comfort Mordecai and are with him when he dies.