Can you forgive her?
by Anthony Trollope
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As a scandalized Victorian society looks on, Alice Vavasor, Lady Glencora, and the Widow Greenow continue their romantic entanglements with disreputable suitors. Trollope deftly explores the tensions in Victorian society between reform and tradition, and the interplay between money, power, and politics.
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Fiction, Plantagenet Palliser (Fictitious character), Social life and customs, Classic Literature, Romance, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, London (england), fiction, Palliser, plantagenet (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, general, Manners and customs, Fiction, romance, general, English fiction, Long now manual for civilization, London (England) -- Fiction, Love stories, Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction, Political fiction, Palliser, Plantagenet (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Man-woman relationshipsPlaces
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Can you forgive her?
2012, Oxford University Press
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Can you forgive her?: a Palliser novel
1996, Wordsworth Classics
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxx]-xxxii).
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The Palliser Novels, book 1: Can You Forgive Her?
Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora - forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald from wasting her vast fortune. In asking his readers to pardon Alice for her transgression of the Victorian moral code, Trollope created a telling and wide-ranging account of the social world of his day.
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