Mr Slope

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That feeling of over-due bills, of bills coming due, of accounts overdrawn, of tradesmen unpaid, of general money cares, is very dreadful at first; but it is astonishing how soon men get used to it.

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Framley Parsonage

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Women

Apart from creating great female characters, Trollope's used his writing to highlight inequalities in women's property rights, oppportunities, even in the rights of married women to look after their children.

Few authors have shown Trollope's understanding of women, and what it is to be a woman in Victorian society, Here David Skilton examines Trollope's sympathetic treatment of a fallen women, Carry Brattle in The Vicar of Bullhampton.



An investigaton of two women, Lady Glencora and Alice Vavassor, in Can You Forgive Her?



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