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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find Trollope absolutely hilarious at times and such a keen observer of personality foibles-I can’t believe how fresh something written in the 1850s can seem. And [b]although he does give lip service to Victorian ideas about gender roles he portrays his actual female characters with a full range of traits (and male characters are just as likely to be gossipy or sentimental etc as the women.)[/b] I’m going to read Is He Poppenjoy next because I’ve heard it’s one of his funniest. [/quote]

The bold is so true! I love the real humanity of Trollope's female characters and you have nailed how he had to portray them with "acceptable" roles but also gave them depth. I adore Dickens for many reasons but his Virgin or Whore complex with most of his female characters is wearing. Trollope avoided that trap.

Not Trollope-related but if anyone here has not read [i]The Woman in White[/i] by Wilkie Collins, and you enjoy 19th century British literature, do read it. I read it for the first time recently and thought it was wonderful, especially how he captured a woman's voice and thoughts in the character Marian. (The most recent TV adaptation from a couple of years back is NO substitute for the book and departed badly from the book's spirit, and totally lacks the characters' voices.)[/quote]

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