Miss Mackenzie (The ^AWorld's Classics) - Softcover

Trollope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192818465 ISBN 13: 9780192818461

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1988

Synopsis

This novel, written in 1864 and first published in 1865, follows the fortunes of a middle-aged spinster "overwhelmed with money troubles", as she tries to assess the worth and motives of four very different suitors. In "Miss Mackenzie", Trollope made a deliberate attempt "to prove that a novel may be produced without love", by choosing as his heroine an unattractive, middle-aged woman, but as he admits in his autobiography, even in "this attempt it breaks down before the conclusion" and she was in love by the end of the book and made a romantic marriage. At the same time, Trollope also gives a comic portrait of evangelical society in a provincial watering-place. The editor, A.O.J. Cockshut is author of "Truth to life" and "Art of autobiography" as well as studies of Trollope, Dickens and Scott, and the chronology is by John Halperin.

About this title

About the Author:

As young adult, Trollope endured seven years of poverty in the General Post Office in London before accepting a better-paying position as postal surveyor in Banagher, Ireland in 1841. The years in Ireland formed the basis of his second career delineating clerical life in small cathedral towns.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0192818465
• ISBN 13: 9780192818461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Cockshut O. A. J.