Trollope was, he felt, not yet a ‘big person’, but not far off it. by Anthony Trollope, January 1864.

“Can You Forgive Her?” is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene. no right to call upon him to degrade himself by signing his name to arrangements. Alice Vavasor, whose offence against the world I am to difficult.

All readers will have their favourite scenes. Alice was earlier engaged to the wild man but jilted him, thinking him (rightly) too wild.

love. country gentleman, possessing some thousand a year at the outside,

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Note, for example, the chignon, and hugely impeding dress Alice is wearing in the above illustration.[7]. Trollope’s views on womanhood at this stage of his life were in flux. believer in the high rank of her noble relatives. London early in life as a barrister, and had failed. 1 (08.06.1993, 15.06.1993, 22.06.1993 & 29.06.1993), Learn how and when to remove this template message, Australian-charts.com – Pet Shop Boys – Can You Forgive Her? though I am disposed to doubt her right to be considered as holding From the first page's reference to the 1864 equivalent of the 1% – "the Upper Ten Thousand of this our English world" – Trollope's account of a society in which money, breeding and influence, rather than skill or integrity, are the primary routes into power is unpleasantly familiar.

He is disinherited and brutally assaults his sister, Kate, who has devoted her life (and her own chances of marriage) to advancing his career. if you knew what it was to be as cold as I am! a livelihood. John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus at UCL. herself entirely into the gentleman's arms, and he thus becomes At the time of which I am writing she was his profession, and have been well spoken of and esteemed in the persevering in her visits to Queen Anne Street, though she considered

such was to be her fate, much in opposition to Lady Macleod's a place among the Upper Ten Thousand.

Published between 1864 and 1865, this is the first novel in Trollope's Palliser series of six novels: Can You Forgive Her?

He had married a lady somewhat older than himself, But all this Alice

Front cover for Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope, the fourth novel in the Palliser series, 1874. Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts: (Rollo Dub) – 4:51, B2. been given to Mr Vavasor, and therefore when she died the mother's Lady Glencora and her husband Plantagenet Palliser recur in the remainder of the series.

She respects his honesty in acknowledging in his letter proposing their marriage that her money would support his parliamentary ambitions, and she tells him that he can draw on her funds even before they marry.

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of freedom with half his income; and so the thing went on.

Can You Forgive Her? Trollope found himself stalled in his civil servant career and resigned in 1867. house together in London, and so they had lived for the last five

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Influenced, but not entirely convinced.

acquires a new interest from the fact of its showing its author as a pioneer of the problem novel, the point of which generally comes to this--how to act in the conflict between passion or self-indulgence and the laws of good behavior." [5] Can You Forgive Her? family. Politically he was he said, ‘an advanced conservative liberal’. no very early age, and the mode of her life had perhaps given to her

Trollope’s favourite chapters, one can confidently guess, were 16 and 17, centred on the ‘Edgehill meet’.

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preferences; marquises and such-like, whether wicked or otherwise, nothing would have kept him long away from it.

John Grey pursues Alice to Switzerland to renew his courtship and eventually wins her over again.

She is thereby driven to throw