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What a beautiful, sweeping novel. Everything is pulled in, every ethical question of the day. It's "extreme adventure" for Victorian women - the quest for an appropriate and emotionally beneficial marriage. Trollope's ideas on this issue come through loud and clear, but his women are more complex, nuanced, and believable than most fictional Victorian women. A Trollope woman is never truly a tragic figure - rather, his women are all, for good and for evil, surprisingly self-possessed and intellig
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