He Knew She Was Right: The Independent Woman in the Novels of Anthony Trollope

by Jane Nardin and Professor Jane Nardin

Trollope's mother, wife, and a friend he loved platonically most of his life provided him three very different views of the Victorian woman. And, according to Jane Nardin, they were responsible for the dramatic shift in his treatment of women in his novels.

This is the first book in Sandra Gilbert's Ad Feminam series to examine a male author. Nardin initially analyzes the novels Trollope wrote from 1855 to 1861, in which male concerns...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809314843
• ISBN13: 9780809314843
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"