>. 1st in Palliser series
> my first Trollope
> Audiobook
> Setting: mid 1800s, England
> Characters: Alice Vaversall, her cousin, Kate (wants her to marry her brother, George), John Hay (Alice's perfect fiance who she breaks up with), Alice's aunt (widowed wife of elderly wealthy man, manipulates all sorts of men)
> marital maneuvering
> pressure on women to marry appropriately regardless of love
> Alice is going to spend time with Pallisers, a high ranking family into which her other cousin, Cora, married
> Midway through the book, the narrator breaks in to ask, "can you forgive her?"........Alice has now twice become engaged to men ...the first, John Gray....she wants independence and breaks it off.....the second, George Vavasor, she realizes she abhors.......now John Gray is trying to save her from her errors,......what is Trollope saying? Women are fools? Men are heroes and their guardians?
>. LibraryThing Review: Audiobook.......Phew....28 hours of audio! Why would someone stick with this? Because it was wonderful! Anthony Trollope wrote this novel which is set in England in the mid 1800s. His protagonists are all women with relationship dilemmas which are fiercely controlled by the social mores of the time. Do these women need forgiveness? Can they forgive one another? Can they forgive themselves? Does the reader think they need forgiveness? Can you forgive them? Read the book and judge as you will!
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