

Next Section Character List Previous Section About Fingersmith How To Cite in MLA Format Kumaresh, Smitha, et al. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. Sue realizes that she was as much a pawn in the Gentleman's plan as Maud was, and they begin their relationship together. The fortune was to be split between the two. Sucksby is hanged, and Sue finds a document that says that she is Lilly’s daughter, but they were switched at birth. Sucksby was behind the scheme, wanting the money of both the young girls. The Gentleman is stabbed, before the truth is revealed. Sue, back at the house, confronts Maud and wishes to kill her for what she did. She begins wondering of her own sanity but understands that her story is true when an old friends meets her there. Meanwhile, in the madhouse, Sue is told that she is Maud while she is heavily punished. However, they end up in Suckby’s house, where Maud is held prisoner and has to learn to become Sue. Maud and Richard leave to go to his house in London. They tell them that Sue is Maud, but she has become delusional and believes that she is Sue. After Maud and the gentleman are unlawfully married, they call the madhouse to get Sue. Maud agrees, and Sue is brought in, unknowing that Maud knows of her plan. One day, a man named Richard came and told her that he would help her escape, but that they would need someone that looked like her to take her place, in order for her to vanish. Maud feels locked in the house she grew up in. She grew up making a bibliography of his library. Maud was an orphan, though her rich uncle took her into his care. The second part of the book is from Maud’s perspective. The Gentleman calls the madhouse, who would come to fetch Maud, but the person that gets taken by them is Sue.

However, Sue still pushed Maud to marry the Gentleman. Sue joins in on the con, and becomes great friends with Maud, and they even develop a physical attraction. Gentleman would seduce a rich, naïve woman named Maud Lilly, marry her and then send her to a madhouse after he receives her money. One day, a man named Gentleman comes and offers her a job. Susan, called Sue, is a fingersmith and a pickpocket in order for her to help her adoptive mother earn money. She was born to a mother that was mad, before she was given to a baby farmer named Grace Sucksby. Written by Smitha Kumaresh and other people who wish to remain anonymousįingersmith follows the life of Susan Trinder. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
