Lady Anna, by Anthony Trollope
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Lady Anna, by Anthony Trollope- Published on: 2015-11-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.69" h x .67" w x 7.44" l, 1.18 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 296 pages
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.
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53 of 55 people found the following review helpful. An Incomplete Saga By E. T. Veal Anthony Trollope declared once that "Lady Anna" was "the best novel I ever wrote". Readers did not agree. Appearing between the masterpieces "Phineas Redux" and "The Way We Live Now", it sold poorly and has been neglected ever since. Trollope blamed this failure on his audience's objections to the heroine's choice of a husband, though similar complaints, much more vehemently expressed, had not sunk "The Small House at Allington". (There Lily Dale remains faithful to the memory of a cad, scorning the devoted attentions of a worthy suitor. Anna's wooers, by contrast, are both good men, though vastly different in rank and personality.)"Lady Anna" is, in fact, a well-knit narrative with more suspense than is usual for Trollope. Will the courts declare Anna to be Lady Anna Lovel, heiress to 35,000 pounds a year, or merely Anna Murray, a pauper? Which of her suitors, the sometimes surly tailor Daniel Thwaite or her handsome, good-natured cousin Lord Lovel, will Anna prefer? Will Daniel's political principles lead to a breach with his childhood sweetheart? Will the impoverished Lord Lovel find honorable means to support his noble rank? The plot takes surprising, if not astonishing, turns; the characterization is as deft as ever; and there is a leavening of subtle humor, such as Daniel's cross-purposes consultation with a quondam radical poet (a thinly disguised Robert Southey) who has evolved into an intractable Tory.The book's weakness is that the leading characters are, by and large, decent folk at the beginning and, except for one who falls into a state akin to madness, remain decent, if not unchanged, to the end. Conflicts end in rational compromises. Everybody eventually sees everybody else's point of view. Even the lawyers on opposite sides of Lady Anna's case get along amicably. (One solicitor does have the sense to grumble that such harmony is unprofessional.)Trollope's liking for this novel may have arisen from the fact that it is light, sunny and fresh. There may be an evil earl in the first chapter and a mad countess in the last, but how pleasant for the writer to be free for a time from the political intrigues, financial manipulations and cynical worldliness of the Palliser saga and "The Way We Live Now"! Moreover, "Lady Anna" was, in its creator's mind, only a prologue. The last paragraph promises a (never written) sequel, where the characters doubtless were intended to meet sterner challenges. There are hints that the scene would have shifted to Australia and America and that the hero's and heroine's homegrown principles were to be put to the test in those lands. Thus the author had much in view that he never disclosed to his readers, perhaps accounting for part of the discrepancy between his opinion and theirs.No one who has not read all of the Palliser and Barset novels, not to mention "The Way We Live Now", should pick up "Lady Anna". I recommend it immediately after the last-named. It will cleanse the palate and leave a lingering regret that the rest of Anna's and Daniel's and Lord Lovel's adventures will never be known.Incidental note: The introduction to the Oxford World's Classics edition, the one that I am reviewing, is an extraordinarily silly example of lit crit bafflegab. Don't read it before reading the novel. Read afterwards, its wrong-headed ideological interpretations may prove amusing.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Romance of a Real and Strange sort By Romantic Anna This was an interesting, if imperfect, novel of marriage. The main thrust of the novel has to do with a legal battle a COuntess and her daughter, Lady Anna, engage in to assert their legal rights after having been abused by an evil Earl, who married and abandoned the Countess. To assert these rights, a demand is made by the mother to the daughter that she wed her cousin, although no one guesses that Anna is already engaged to the poor tailor who has been her one true friend in life.I enjoyed many aspects of the novel, primarily how the mother-daughter relationship plays out. The subplot of the book is that we all must separate from Mother, and make our own way, our own decisions. This Mother is especially hard-hearted and single-minded and acts very melodramatically in one scene to the tailor (a really weird, overblown scene I could have lived without and which was incidentally, albeit unintentionally, funny).Anna herself is a character with many virtues. She Almost gives in but does not do so because she is guided by an internal voice of loyalty. Her love on the other hand is drawn realistically if not in a flattering way. Daniel is almost an anti-hero. Not entirely sympathetic, you learn to like him because he seems real. The 'triangle' between those two and Lord Lovel is well-depicted, and no character comes off as 'the baddie.'Another aspect I respected was the depiction of law, and how society restrains its denizens into conventional and superficial marriages. I disagree with the previous reviewer who said this was a light novel. I think there are very dark moments and a suspicion about the characters' motives at every turn. Yet, there is decency in many characters: Anna herself and the Solicitor-General being the obvious ones.I liked this immensely, despite it being overlong and having some over-the-top moments that did not 'go' with the rest of the novel. Still, the novel has great style.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Really 4.5 stars - it's just about perfect, but kind of loses steam near the end. By Steve Forsyth As I read through the bulk of Trollope's epic blend of engagement drama and inheritance procedural, I found it to be one of his most cinematic. I was convinced most of the way through that this would make an excellent candidate for a lavish Hollywood costume drama. The structure of the novel is quite excellent, particularly as the storyline follows the seasons of the year, which might give an excellent visual aid to the proposed film's cinematography.The first hundred or so pages sets up the central dilemma, that of Josephine Murray cum Countess Lovel, who marries a "wicked earl" who later drops the bombshell that he is already married, thus invalidating her marriage and disenfranchising her daughter (the titular Anna) from any hopes of familial inheritance. Once the earl dies and leaves his will intestate, it comes down to a battle of lawyers who will inherit the title and the estate. Will it be Josephine and her daughter? Will it be the earl's nephew? Or, might it be this supposed previous wife, who is somewhere in Italy?The decision is relegated to a set of lawyers, whose conversation and legal analysis takes up a large portion of the novel - but fear not, these scenes are actually quite fascinating. It is these lawyers who hatch a scheme that if this daughter Anna should marry the nephew, then the issue of inheritance would become moot. Thus, the next hundred pages shifts into a pastoral romance as the nephew and his family attempt to woo the young Anna into falling for him amidst their beautiful country estate. There's just one problem... Anna is already engaged to a lowly tradesman tailor. This bombshell throws the novel into a new direction for its remainder as the various characters respond to the news.Along the way, Trollope writes some of his best introspective dialogue as parties as varied as the lawyers, the nephew and his family, the tailor, and the mother of the Lady Anna all conspire to try to determine Anna's fate for her ... a point which is not lost on the reader - if all these people can determine her decision, what about her own choice? Should she be free to have one? The novel's central dilemma is whether or not Anna should follow her "duty" to the family name, or honor the obligation of her word and her heart.As is common with Trollope's works, the story starts to wear itself out about a hundred pages before its inevitable and predictable conclusion. But, even if it becomes a bit belabored, I never quite lost interest, thanks in part to the increasingly dangerous thoughts and actions of Anna's mother, creating some very surprising dialogue and decisions on her part in the final act. Indeed, she is by far the most fascinating character, and unfortunately Trollope seems to not be as interested in her as he maybe should have been - her lifelong struggle to win the legal battle for the sake of her daughter, only to see it threatened by the daugter's stubborn refusal to let go of the tailor, and thus the mental journey she follows right up to the final pages of the novel make for the most fascinating and heart-rending elements of the piece.Indeed, despite the meandering conclusion, Lady Anna ranks among Trollope's best stand-alone works. I still maintain it would make an excellent film. It's one of the few of his novels that I intend to keep and re-read some day.
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