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Physical description; [688]p. Summary; Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina. Although crushed by his faithlessness, Lily still believes she is bound to her unworthy former fiance for life and therefore condemned to remain single after his betrayal. And when a more deserving suitor pays his addresses, she is unable to see past her feelings for Crosbie. Written when Trollope was at the height of his popularity, The Small House at Allington (1864) contains his most admired heroine in Lily Dale a young woman of independent spirit who nonetheless longs to be loved and is a moving dramatization of the ways in which personal dilemmas are affected by social pressures. Subjects; Fiction in English - 1837-1900 - Texts. General & literary fiction ; Classic fiction. FICTION / Classics. Domestic fiction ; Barsetshire (England: Imaginary place). England - Social life and customs - 19th century. England - Social conditions - 19th century. Young women - England. Clergy - England. Genre; Fiction.
Physical description; [688]p. Summary; Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina. Although crushed by his faithlessness, Lily still believes she is bound to her unworthy former fiance for life and therefore condemned to remain single after his betrayal. And when a more deserving suitor pays his addresses, she is unable to see past her feelings for Crosbie. Written when Trollope was at the height of his popularity, The Small House at Allington (1864) contains his most admired heroine in Lily Dale a young woman of independent spirit who nonetheless longs to be loved and is a moving dramatization of the ways in which personal dilemmas are affected by social pressures. Subjects; Fiction in English - 1837-1900 - Texts. General & literary fiction ; Classic fiction. FICTION / Classics. Domestic fiction ; Barsetshire (England: Imaginary place). England - Social life and customs - 19th century. England - Social conditions - 19th century. Young women - England. Clergy - England. Genre; Fiction.
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire,...
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