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* TheHero: Through Series 1 to 3, until his untimely death.
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* SlidingScaleOfBeauty: While not exactly ''ugly'', Edith is often said not to be a patch on sexy, sultry Mary and downright adorable Sybil. Lets up later on when her clothes and hairstyles become more flattering and her character less sour.

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* SlidingScaleOfBeauty: While not exactly ''ugly'', Edith is often said not to be a patch on sexy, sultry Mary and downright adorable angelically beautiful Sybil. Lets up later on when her clothes and hairstyles become more flattering and her character less sour.
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* TheUnfavourite: Her parents definitely favour their two other children. They think of her as the plain and disagreeable one. Particularly evident with this exchange:

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* TheUnfavourite: Her parents definitely favour their two other children.children, with Sybil being Cora's favourite and Mary being Robert's. They think of her as the plain and disagreeable one. Particularly evident with this exchange:
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!!The Right Honourable Isobel Grey (née Turnbull, formerly Crawley), Baroness Merton

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!!The Right Honourable Isobel Grey (née (''née'' Turnbull, formerly Crawley), Baroness Merton



** After she gives Dr Clarkson the brush off at the end of Series 3, she finds herself the subject of Lord Merton's affections at the end of Series 4. She accepts his proposal of marriage at the end of Series 5, but due to his son's complete disapproval, she calls it all off by the Christmas Special.

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** After she gives Dr Clarkson the brush off at the end of Series 3, she finds herself the subject of Lord Merton's affections at the end of Series 4. She accepts his proposal of marriage at the end of Series 5, but due to his son's complete disapproval, she calls it all off by the Christmas Special. Fortunately for all concerned, Violet puts her foot down and summarily sweeps aside all obstacles, allowing them to be together.



* RankUp: When she marries Dickie Grey in the Series' grand finale, Isobel becomes Lady Merton, attaining the rank of baroness.

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* RankUp: When she marries Dickie Grey in the Series' show's grand finale, Isobel becomes Lady Merton, attaining the rank of baroness.
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* GoodStepmother: Her father's second wife, Lucy, loves her dearly and is an excellent mother to her.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Her father Isidore Levinson was Jewish[[note]]Most likely, given his name and her date of birth, a German- or Austrian-Jewish [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-Eighters Forty-Eighter]] who fled Germany/Austria after the UsefulNotes/RevolutionsOf1848. Most probably, the senior Levinson came to Ohio as a young revolutionary himself (probably in his late teens) or an older son of one (in his early teens) who later fought in the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]] before settling down and having Cora and Harold in the second half of the 1860s. That he settled in [[UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}} Cincinnati]] is particularly telling, as that city was a magnet for German Forty-Eighters.[[/note]] but her mother, Martha Levinson, is not. Cora and her brother Harold were therefore raised as Episcopalians.

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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Her father Isidore Levinson was Jewish[[note]]Most likely, given his name and her date of birth, a German- or Austrian-Jewish [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-Eighters Forty-Eighter]] who fled Germany/Austria after the UsefulNotes/RevolutionsOf1848. Most probably, the senior Levinson came to Ohio as a young revolutionary himself (probably in his late teens) or an older son of one (in his early teens) who later fought in the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]] before settling down and having Cora and Harold in the second half of the 1860s. That he settled in [[UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}} Cincinnati]] is particularly telling, as that city was a magnet for German Forty-Eighters.Forty-Eighters from the German-speaking lands (Jewish and otherwise).[[/note]] but her mother, Martha Levinson, is not. Cora and her brother Harold were therefore raised as Episcopalians.
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-> The benevolent patriarch of Downton Abbey, Robert is charged with ensuring the survival of his estate. His marriage of convenience to American heiress Cora Levinson was primarily to gain access to her enormous wealth, though they eventually fell in love and have three daughters – Mary, Edith and Sybil. As they have no sons, an entail Robert's father drew up before Robert married Cora means that Matthew Crawley, his third cousin once removed and the next in line to the Earldom of Grantham by agnatic primogeniture, is heir to Robert's home and wealth as well as his title.

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-> The benevolent patriarch of Downton Abbey, Robert is charged with ensuring the survival of his estate. His marriage of convenience to American heiress Cora Levinson was primarily to gain access to her enormous wealth, though they eventually fell in love and have three daughters – Mary, Edith and Sybil. As they have no sons, an entail Robert's father drew up before Robert married Cora means that Matthew Crawley, his third cousin once removed and the next in line to the Earldom of Grantham by agnatic primogeniture, is heir to Cora's wealth as well as Robert's home and wealth as well as his title.

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