Can You Forgive Her?

Anthony Trollope · 1865 CE · Novel · English · Victorian

Alice Vavasor has broken one engagement to a steady man and is being drawn back toward the ruined cousin she refused first, while her friend Lady Glencora, married off to the heir of a dukedom, is still in love with the spendthrift she was kept from. A widow at Yarmouth runs a third courtship as farce alongside them. The opening book of the Palliser sequence, and Trollope's fullest treatment of a woman's right to change her mind.

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