Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A Possible Person?: Marking the Minor Character in Dickens; 2. At the Margins of Mystery: Sensational Difference in Wilkie Collins; 3. (De)Forming Families: Disability and the Marriage Plot in Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge; 4. Terminal Decline: Physical Frailty and Moral Inheritance in George Eliot and Henry James; Coda; Bibliography; Index.