Book description
Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale
is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina.
Although crushed by his faithlessness, Lily still believes she is bound
to her unworthy former fianc for life and therefore condemned to remain
single after his betrayal. And when a more deserving suitor pays his
addresses, she is unable to see past her feelings for Crosbie. Written
when Trollope was at the height of his popularity, The Small House at
Allington (1864) contains his most admired heroine in Lily Dale - a
young woman of independent spirit who nonetheless longs to be loved -
and is a moving dramatization of the ways in which personal dilemmas are
affected by social pressures.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE ( 1815-82) was born in London. His literary career
began with the appearance of The Macdermots of Ballycloran in 1847,
but not until his fourth novel, The Warden (1855), did he establish
the manner and material by which he is best known. This, the first of
the 'Barteshire' series, was followed by Barchester Towers (1857),
Doctor Thorne (1858). Framley Parsonage (1861), and the Last Chronicle
of Barest (1867).
His second series, the Palliser series, comprises of Can You Forgive
Her? (1864), Phineas Finn (1869), The Eustace Diamonds (1873), Phineas
Redux (1876), The Prime Minister (1876) and The Duke's Children (1880).
