- Fiction, Inheritance and succession, English fiction, Man-woman relationships
Following a family tragedy, the home of Clara Amedroz passes to a distant cousin, the farmer Will Belton. Clara rejects his proposal of marriage in favour of the dull MP, Captain Aylmer. The theme of the novel is the difficulty of being a spirited woman in a world made for men.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Anthony Trollope
- First published
- 1866
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Franklin Classics, Dodo Press, Independently published
- Editions
- 100
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781609779481
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“Mrs Amedroz, the wife of Bernard Amedroz, Esq, of Belton Castle, and mother of Charles and Clara Amedroz, died when those children were only eight and six years old, thereby subjecting them to the greatest misfortune which children born in that sphere of life can be made to suffer.”
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