TROLLOPE, Anthony.

Lady Anna ... in two Volumes ...

London: Chapman and Hall ... 1874. 2 vols., 8vo., with the half-titles; tear from careless opening to upper margin of Q7-8 and to fore-edge of T6 in volume I, but not affecting text; some foxing in both volumes; original red-brown cloth, a bit worn, blocked in black, spines gilt. First edition. This story of feminine constancy is set earlier in the century in Cumbria. Trollope gives a synopsis in his Autobiography: ‘A young girl, who is really a lady of high rank and great wealth, though in her youth she enjoyed none of the privileges of wealth and rank, marries a tailor who had been good to her, and whom she had loved when she was poor and neglected.’ The law against bigamy provides the background to the novel, and the core of the narrative is Lady Anna’s long quarrel with her mother over keeping her pledge to the tailor, Daniel Thwaite of Keswick, who in one chapter discusses the dilemma at length with the aged ‘Keswick poet’, presumably Southey. Trollope wrote Lady Anna en route from Liverpool to Melbourne; the novel ends with the emigration of Lady Anna and her husband to Australia. Sadleir, Trollope 42.

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