I read The Warden and Can You Forgive Her? last year and loved both, but have just given up on the next Palliser book, Phineas Finn. I'm probably a lightweight but I just got bored with all the men and their endless meetings about dodgy election campaigns.
I think Trollope writes very sympathetically and realistically about rich women and the way their lives were restricted by lack of control over money, having to conform to social mores, etc, and I was hoping for more of that.
I've also read The Way We Live Now ages ago and enjoyed that. Can anyone recommend other Trollopes which focus on strong women characters? Can I just skip the more political of the Palliser books, or are the others more like Phineas Finn than CYFH? What about the other Barchesters? Or any non-series novels?
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seasidequayside · 08/10/2019 10:42
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