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Lily Dale is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor living in the main house on his property at Allington. He has loaned an adjacent small house rent free to his widowed sister-in-law and her daughters, Lily and Bell. But the relations between the two houses are strained, affecting the romantic entanglements of the girls. Lily has long been unsuccessfully wooed by John Eames, a junior clerk at the Income Tax Office. The handsome and personable Adolphus Crosbie looks like an enticing alternative; but Adolphus has his eye on the rigid Lady Alexandrina de Courcy, whose family is in a position to further his career. Bell, meanwhile, must choose between the local doctor, James Crofts, and her wealthy cousin, Bernard.… (meer)
Trollope wrote with this one an in essence feministic Victorian novel. He questions the attitude of men who think they can marry the women they are in love with. And if not in the near future, then surely they will come around to their charms (or money) at a later time.
Trollope showed the Victorian (and the modern) reader that men are often not seen by women the way they would want them to. Here it is certainly the case and what in your regular Victorian novels (or in those of the period before that, the Regency - Jane Austen) is almost without exception the outcome of love’s struggles: marriage, is here presented in a totally different way. some men unhappy but most of the female characters happily ever after!
Trollope wrote with this one an in essence feministic Victorian novel. He questions the attitude of men who think they can marry the women they are in love with. And if not in the near future, then surely they will come around to their charms (or money) at a later time.
Trollope showed the Victorian (and the modern) reader that men are often not seen by women the way they would want them to. Here it is certainly the case and what in your regular Victorian novels (or in those of the period before that, the Regency - Jane Austen) is almost without exception the outcome of love’s struggles: marriage, is here presented in a totally different way. some men unhappy but most of the female characters happily ever after!
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Of course there was a Great House at Allington.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The door of the big room was opened, and Mr Kissing shuffled in with very quick little steps. He shuffled in and coming direct up to John’s desk, flopped his ledger down upon it. . .. ‘I have been half the morning, Mr Eames, looking for this letter to the Admiralty, and you’ve put it under S!’ A bystander listening to Mr Kissing’s tone would have been led to believe that the whole Income-tax Office was jeopardised by the terrible iniquity thus disclosed. ‘Somerset House,’ pleaded Johnny. ‘Psha; —Somerset House! Half the offices in London—’ ‘You’d better ask Mr Love,’ said Eames. ‘It’s all done under his special instructions.’ Mr Kissing looked at Mr Love, and Mr Love looked steadfastly at his desk. ‘Mr Love knows all about the indexing,’ continued Johnny. ‘He’s index master general to the department.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
His wife, the Lady Alexandrina, is to be seen in the one-horse carriage with her mother at Baden-Baden.
Lily Dale is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor living in the main house on his property at Allington. He has loaned an adjacent small house rent free to his widowed sister-in-law and her daughters, Lily and Bell. But the relations between the two houses are strained, affecting the romantic entanglements of the girls. Lily has long been unsuccessfully wooed by John Eames, a junior clerk at the Income Tax Office. The handsome and personable Adolphus Crosbie looks like an enticing alternative; but Adolphus has his eye on the rigid Lady Alexandrina de Courcy, whose family is in a position to further his career. Bell, meanwhile, must choose between the local doctor, James Crofts, and her wealthy cousin, Bernard.
Trollope showed the Victorian (and the modern) reader that men are often not seen by women the way they would want them to. Here it is certainly the case and what in your regular Victorian novels (or in those of the period before that, the Regency - Jane Austen) is almost without exception the outcome of love’s struggles: marriage, is here presented in a totally different way. some men unhappy but most of the female characters happily ever after!