Lady Anna.

Description:

A Victorian Gothic novel with the twin themes of bigamy and class difference as the base. A complicated plot, well developed ideas, and very convincing characters on the whole. Two exceptions to Trollope's usually powerful women are Lady Lovel, who is almost demonic, and the Lady Anna herself, who seems very changeable although she is immensely loyal to the working class man to whom she is engaged. Although it is not Trollope's most memorable novel, it remains one of his most engrossing.

subjects: Inheritance and succession,  Fiction,  Mothers and daughters,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  England, fiction,  Long now manual for civilization,  English fiction,  bigamy,  law,  trials,  estates

Places: Cumberland (England),  London

Times: circa 1850