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Book Trollope and Women

Download or read book Trollope and Women written by Margaret Markwick and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trollope is usually seen as a faithful mirror of Victorian England, both in providing intimate details of contemporary life and in endorsing the moral attitudes and certainties of the period. His powers of empathy make his characters convincing and knowable in an astonishing way. Yet the Victorians restricted women to the house and severely limited their rights and opportunities. Trollope and Women examens the conundrum of how a great novelist could both accept the conventional values of the time and yet be able to see and sympathise with the impossible situations in which Victorian women often found themselves. Margaret Markwick shows the individuality of Trollope's women: even conventional Angel in the House heroines, like Mary Lowther in The Vicar of Bullhampton, can surprise us at times. More tellingly, he cannot help giving some of his less angelic characters, such as the vivacious Lizzie Eustace in the Eustace Diamonds, his unwilling admiration. His range extends beyond simple romance to the realistic handling of marriages, both happy and unhappy, and to the treatment of bigamy and scandal. He shows men and women getting on together as well as fighting bitterly. Nor are Trollope's novels as devoid of sex as has often been thought.

Book The Macdermots of Ballycloran

Download or read book The Macdermots of Ballycloran written by Anthony Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Small House at Allington

Download or read book The Small House at Allington written by Anthony Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fanny Trollope

Download or read book Fanny Trollope written by Pamela Neville-Sington and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Fanny Trollope, the wife of Anthony Trollope and author of the Domestic Manners of the Americans.

Book City of Friends

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joanna Trollope
  • Publisher : Pan Macmillan
  • Release : 2017-02-23
  • ISBN : 1509823441
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book City of Friends written by Joanna Trollope and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotional journey portraying the multiple frustrations, pressures and hidden agonies of four women. City of Friends is the number one bestselling novel from the highly acclaimed author, Joanna Trollope. The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new – one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home – she at least has The Girls to fall back on. Beth, Melissa and Gaby. The girls, now women, had been best friends from the early days of university right through their working lives, and for all the happiness and heartbreaks in between. But these career women all have personal problems of their own, and when Stacey's redundancy forces a betrayal to emerge that was supposed to remain secret, their long cherished friendships will be pushed to their limits . . . 'It's fiendishly well plotted and, with its glittering London settings, full of urban glamour' - Daily Mail

Book Mum   Dad

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joanna Trollope
  • Publisher : Pan Macmillan
  • Release : 2020-03-05
  • ISBN : 1529003415
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Mum Dad written by Joanna Trollope and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Richard & Judy Book Club Pick, Mum & Dad is a heartwarming family drama set in the vineyards of Spain. From the number one bestselling author of An Unsuitable Match, Joanna Trollope, and told with all her trademark wit and wisdom. 'Trollope’s bestselling novel brings elegance and warmth to a painfully familiar dilemma' – Daily Mail What happens when family roles are reversed and the children must look after mum and dad? It’s been twenty-five years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke and their idyllic Mediterranean life is thrown into upheaval, it’s left to their three grown-up children in London to step in . . . As the children descend on the vineyard, it becomes clear that each has their own idea of how best to handle their mum and dad, as well as the family business. But as long-simmering resentments rise to the surface and tensions reach breaking point, will the family finally fall apart? 'No-one dissects the intricacies of family relationships quite like Joanna Trollope' - Good Housekeeping

Book Britannia s Daughters

Download or read book Britannia s Daughters written by Joanna Trollope and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britannia's Daughters, bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. She draws on a vast range of sources, including diaries and letters home. She provides a panoramic picture of the countless women who departed Britain for India, Australia, the Far East, Canada and Africa - often in search of opportunities unavailable at home. Here are penniless pioneers and governors' wives, missionaries and prostitutes, explorers and army nurses. They people this book as they peopled the Empire - their astonishing courage and endurance, their remarkable personal stories vividly and enthrallingly recaptured.

Book The Way We Live Now

Download or read book The Way We Live Now written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tamer Tamed

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Fletcher
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2014-05-29
  • ISBN : 1408143801
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book The Tamer Tamed written by John Fletcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tamer Tamed is the subtitle or alternative title to John Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, a comedic sequel and reply to The Taming of the Shrew. The plot switches the gender roles of Shakespeare's play: the women seek to tame the men. Katherine (the "shrew" of the original) has died, and Petruchio takes a second wife, Maria. Maria denounces her former mildness and vows not to sleep with Petruchio until she "turn him and bend him as [she] list, and mold him into a babe again." After many comedic exchanges and plot twists, Petruchio is finally "tamed" in the eyes of Maria, and the play ends with the two reconciled. The play is seen to reflect how society's views of women, femininity, and "domestic propriety" were beginning to change. It is said that Fletcher wrote this play to attract Shakespeare's attention - the two went on to collaborate on at least three plays together. This brand new New Mermaid edition offers unique and fresh insight into the critical interpretation of the play. It builds on current critical foundations (the relationship with Taming of the Shrew, gender relations etc) and suggests different areas of interest (popular associations of the shrew, the question of reputation, and a re-examination of the play's structure). as well as examining stage history and recent productions.

Book Friday Nights

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joanna Trollope
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2011-01-15
  • ISBN : 1608196593
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Friday Nights written by Joanna Trollope and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanna Trollope's warm, insightful novel stars Eleanor, who invites two young mothers into her home from off the street, and slowly begins to connect with them and their friends. But when one of them meets a man, new questions are posed: can female friendships withstand the jealousies and intricacies of love? With wit and warmth Joanna Trollope opens a window onto six very different women's lives, their passions and their sorrows, and explores with insight and humanity the shifting currents of friendship.

Book The widow Barnaby

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frances Trollope
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1839
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1114 pages

Download or read book The widow Barnaby written by Frances Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reforming Trollope

    Book Details:
  • Author : Professor Deborah Denenholz Morse
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2013-04-28
  • ISBN : 1472404262
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book Reforming Trollope written by Professor Deborah Denenholz Morse and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trollope the reformer and the reformation of Trollope scholarship in relation to gender, race, and genre are the intertwined subjects of eminent Trollopian Deborah Denenholz Morse’s radical rethinking of Anthony Trollope. Beginning with a history of Trollope’s critical reception, Morse traces the ways in which Trollope’s responses to the political and social upheavals of the 1860s and 1870s are reflected in his novels. She argues that as Trollope’s ideas about gender and race evolved over those two crucial decades, his politics became more liberal. The first section of the book analyzes these changes in terms of genre. As Morse shows, the novelist subverts and modernizes the quintessential English genre of the pastoral in the wake of Darwin in the early 1860s novel The Small House at Allington. Following the Second Reform Act, he reimagines the marriage plot along new class lines in the early 1870s in Lady Anna. The second section focuses upon gender. In the wake of the Second Reform Bill and the agitations for women's rights in the 1860s and 1870s, Trollope reveals the tragedy of primogeniture and male privilege in Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite and the viciousness of the marriage market in Ayala's Angel. The final section of Reforming Trollope centers upon race. Trollope's response to the Jamaica Rebellion and the ensuing Governor Eyre Controversy in England is revealed in the tragic marriage of a quintessential English gentleman to a dark beauty from the Empire's dominions. The American Civil War and its aftermath led to Trollope's insistence that English identity include the history of English complicity in the black Atlantic slave trade and American slavery, a history Trollope encodes in the creole discourses of the late novel Dr. Wortle's School. Reforming Trollope is a transformative examination of an author too long identified as the epitome of the complacent English gentleman.

Book The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope s Novels

Download or read book The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope s Novels written by Deborah Denenholz Morse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together established critics and exciting new voices, The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels offers original readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary and cultural studies. As the editors observe in their provocative introduction, Trollope more than any of his contemporaries is studied by scholars from disciplines outside literary studies. The contributors here draw together work from economics, colonialism and ethnicity, gender studies, new historicism, liberalism, legal studies, and politics that convincingly argues for the eminence of Trollope's writings as a vehicle for the theoretical explorations of Victorian culture that currently predominate. The essays variously examine imperial and postcolonial themes in the context of economic, cultural, aesthetic, and demographic influences; show how gender-sensitive readings expose Trollope's critique of capitalism's influence; address Trollope and sexuality in the context of queer studies, the law, archetypal constructions, and classical feminism; and offer new approaches to narrative theory through examination of Victorian understandings of male and female psychology. Regenia Gagnier's concluding chapter revisits the collection's critical strands and reflects on the implications for future studies of Trollope.

Book He Knew She was Right

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jane Nardin
  • Publisher : SIU Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780809314843
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book He Knew She was Right written by Jane Nardin and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trollope’s mother, wife, and a friend he loved platonically most of his life provided him three very different views of the Victorian woman. And, according to Jane Nardin, they were responsible for the dramatic shift in his treatment of women in his novels. This is the first book in Sandra Gilbert’s Ad Feminam series to examine a male author. Nardin initially analyzes the novels Trollope wrote from 1855 to 1861, in which male concerns are central to the plot and women are angelic heroines, submissive and self-sacrificing. Even the titles of his novels written during this period are totally male oriented. The Three Clerks, Doctor Thorne, and The Bertrams all refer to men. Shortly after meeting Kate Field, Trollope wrote Orley Farm, which refers to the estate an angry woman steals from her husband and which marks a change in the attitudes toward women evident in his novels. His next four books, The Small House at Allington, Rachel Ray, Can You Forgive Her?, and Miss Mackenzie, prove that women’s concerns had become central in his writing. Nardin examines specific novels written from 1861 to 1865 in which Trollope, with increasing vigor, subverts the conventional notions of gender that his earlier novels had endorsed. Nardin argues that his novels written after 1865 and often recognized as feminist are not really departures but merely refinements of attitudes Trollope exhibited in earlier works.

Book The Women of Anthony Trollope

Download or read book The Women of Anthony Trollope written by Harriet Eliza Paine and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Zealander

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Trollope
  • Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book The New Zealander written by Anthony Trollope and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anthony Trollope (1815?1882), one of the Victorian era's most famous novelists, landed at Bluff at the start of a two-month tour of New Zealand. Trollope had spent the previous year travelling around Australia and in 1873 published a two-volume book of his travels, Australia and New Zealand. Overall the impression he gave of New Zealand was positive and consistent with views of the time. To Trollope, New Zealand had all the potential to become a new and improved version of England, though clearly as part of the British Empire rather than as a separate nation. Māori were seen as a dying race, on the brink of 'melting away' in the face of inevitable progress."--New Zealand History Online.

Book Writing the Frontier

Download or read book Writing the Frontier written by John McCourt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland explores Trollope's relationship with Ireland, offering an in-depth exploration of his time in Ireland, contextualising his Irish novels and short stories and examining his ongoing interest in the country, its people, and its relationship with Britain.