Anthony Trollope

[dangermousie]

Filmi-girl reminded me of my love for the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope so I am currently reading "Can you forgive her?", a novel about a woman who vaccilates between two very different suitors.

My favorite characters, however are Glencora and Plantagent Palliser, a married couple who actually have to work on their marriage - theirs was arranged. Glencora is torn because she cannot give her husband a child (initially the reason he wanted a wife) and because she still loves a former flame.

I just love this bit so much:

I would rather have you for my wife, childless, - if you will try to love me, - than any other woman, though another might give me an heir. Will you try to love me?

It's Plantagenet talking to Glencora. I love it doubly much because he is so incredibly emotionally reserved.

Mmmmm.

Comments

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm, I love understated love confessions from repressed guys.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

So do I!

[myrna-nora.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an interesting book. I look for that one.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It was very good!

[bennet-7.livejournal.com]

I love Trollope. I'm currently uploading an adaptation of He Knew He Was Right and I think I'm studying the novel in a class this semester.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I haven't read that one but want to!

[filmi-girl.livejournal.com]

Mmm... sounds delicious! The Trollope novel I'm reading doesn't have a romance I particularly care about it in but it does have hilarious descriptions of American ladies who treat any seat with a gentlemen in it as if the seat was empty!! Hee hee!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heeeee. I want to read that.