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| First Written | 1882 |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Origin | UK |
| Publisher | World's Classics |
| My Copy | cheap worlds classics |
| First Read | May 28, 2024 |
Mr. Scarborough's Family
This Trollope is very structured around its parallels; we’ve got two cranky old men both determined to subvert the entails on their estates (with different degrees of success). A side plot, but equally notable, are two women who just KEEP getting aggressively proposed-to, from men who just will not take no for an answer. And this happens not in a cute, romantic way; but an infuriating way, where it’s maddening for the women as well as us, the reader.
Noted on June 11, 2024
Apparently one of the last of Trollope's novels; it's the story of a cranky old man who conspires to subvert the entail on his property, with some legal wrangling and much trouble for those around him. Not a highlight of his body of work, but I am still enjoying it.
Noted on May 28, 2024
He spoke English so well that he would only be known to be a foreigner by the correctness of his language.
Quoted on June 11, 2024
You are about, I am informed, to proceed to the United States, a country against which I acknowledge I entertain a serious antipathy. They are not a gentlemanlike people, and i am given to understand that they are generally dishonest in their dealings. Their President is a low person, and all their ideas of government are pettifogging. Their ladies, I am told, are very vulgar, though I have never had the pleasure of knowing one of them.
Quoted on June 11, 2024
[Trollope and his pillar-boxes!]
This letter, when she had written it and copied it fair and posted the copy in the pillar-box close by, she found that she could not in any way show absolutely to her mother. In spite of all her efforts it had become a love-letter. And what genuine love-letter can a girl show even to her mother? But she at once told her of what she had done.
Quoted on May 28, 2024
It was now some years since he had declared that though Mr. Carroll,— or Captain Carroll as he had then been called,— was an improvident, worthless, drunken Irishman, he would never see his sister want. The consequence was that Carroll had come with his wife and six daughters, and taken a house close to him. There are such 'whips and scorns'* in the world to which a man shall be so subject as to have the whole tenor of his life changed by them. The hero bears them heroically, making no complaints to those around him. The common man shrinks, and squeals, and cringes, so that he is known to those around him as one specially persecuted. In this respect Mr. Grey was a grand hero. When he spoke to his friends of Mrs. Carroll, his friends were taught to believe that his outside arrangements with his sister were perfectly comfortable.
Quoted on May 28, 2024
When it was explained to him that his - mother's fair name was to be aspersed—a mother whom he could but faintly remember, the threat did bring with it its own peculiar agony.
[matt notes: "aspersed"!]
Quoted on May 28, 2024