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The Duke's Children

"No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend, the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died..." (from the first line)

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THE DUKE'S CHILDREN, the last of the six Palliser novels, brings to an end the story of Plantagenet Palliser, Trollope's own favorite character among his fictional creations. The Duchess of Omnium--the beloved Lady Glencora--has died, and the Duke must cope alone with his three children. His son Lord Silverbridge and his daughter Lady Mary are especially troublesome: each contemplates an unsuitable (i.e., downwardly mobile) marriage, Silverbridge with an American girl, Mary with the penniless son of a country squire. The novel comprises a portrait of the duke as man and father rather than as a politician.

Praise

Spectator
"A dramatic essay upon the aristocratic principle, in its relation to politics, society, and morality."

Nation
"No one ever, we fancy, read a novel of [Trollope's] without wishing that he might soon write another."

Author Bio

Anthony Trollope

Trollope worked as a civil servant in the post office until he was 52, at the same time traveling extensively in Britain, the U. S., and Europe. He turned his foreign journeys into travel books and his observations on English life into 47 novels. His books deal with most of the typical themes of Victorian literature: class, money, status, youth and age, marriage and sexual mores, and the crisis in the institutions of the Church of England. Each of the novels is self-contained, but many characters, locales, and situations recur. At the age of 57, he suffered a paralytic stroke while laughing at a family read-aloud session, and died a month later.