Lady Anna

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Oxford University Press, 1998 - Fiction - 517 pages
When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like such disruptions of social order as this.' ( Saturday Review ) - although Trollope himself considered it the best novel I ever wrote! Very much! Quite far away above all others!!!' This tightly constructed and passionate study of enforced marriage in the world of Radical politics and social inequality, records the lifelong attempt of Countess Lovel to justify her claim to her title, and her daughter Anna's legitimacy, after her husband announces that he already has a wife. However, mother and daughter are driven apart when Anna defies her mother's wish that she marry her cousin, heir to her father's title, and falls in love with journeyman tailor and young Radical Daniel Thwaite. The outcome is never in doubt, but Trollope's ambivalence on the question is profound, and the novel both intense and powerful.

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Contents

The Early History of Lady Lovel
1
The Earls Will
12
XXX
16
CHAPTER III
23
CHAPTER IV
31
The SolicitorGeneral makes a Proposition
42
CHAPTER VI
57
CHAPTER VII
63
CHAPTER XXVI
266
CHAPTER XXVII
277
CHAPTER XXVIII
286
CHAPTER XXIX
301
CHAPTER XXX
312
The Verdict
321
CHAPTER XXXII
332
CHAPTER XXXIII
344

Impossible
72
It isnt
84
The first Interview
93
It is too late
107
Have they Surrendered?
116
CHAPTER XIII
127
The Earl arrives
140
CHAPTER XIV
151
CHAPTER XVI
160
CHAPTER XVII
170
CHAPTER XVIII
182
CHAPTER XIX
193
CHAPTER XX
204
CHAPTER XXI
215
CHAPTER XXII
226
CHAPTER XXIII
239
CHAPTER XXIV
249
Daniel Thwaites Letter
258
CHAPTER XXXIV
356
CHAPTER XXXV
368
CHAPTER XXXVI
376
Let her
387
Lady Annas Bedside
401
Lady Annas Offer
411
CHAPTER XL
419
CHAPTER XLI
430
Daniel Thwaite comes to Keppel Street
441
CHAPTER XLIII
452
The Attempt and not the Deed confounds
462
CHAPTER XLV
473
CHAPTER XLVI
487
CHAPTER XLVII
497
CHAPTER XLVIII
505
Explanatory Notes
514
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About the author (1998)

Anthony Trollope was born in London, England on April 24, 1815. In 1834, he became a junior clerk in the General Post Office, London. In 1841, he became a deputy postal surveyor in Banagher, Ireland. He was sent on many postal missions ending up as a surveyor general in the post office outside of London. His first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, was published in 1847. His other works included Castle Richmond, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Lady Anna, The Two Heroines of Plumplington, and The Noble Jilt. He died after suffering from a paralytic stroke on December 6, 1882.

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