The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope - 4 Volume Set (The Pickering Masters) - Hardcover
The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. This four-volume set includes scholarly editions of her four novels, in which her comical, yet subversive, treatment of Victorian marriage is an interesting contrast to some of the more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.
At the time of their reception all four novels were considered to be the most hilarious and beloved of Trollope’s works. In their satire of Victorian marriage, they challenged and complicated the normative practices of getting married, being married, and getting married again. Trollope’s creation of strong, independent, older women is an antidote to other Victorian novelists’ portrayal of widows and spinsters, and her novels challenge our understanding of the characteristics of the novels of the 1830s and 1840s, especially in their depiction of Victorian gender dynamics as well as their influence on succeeding novels.
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About the Author:
Dr. Brenda Ayres is a full professor and member of thegraduate faculty at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, where sheteaches English literature and also serves as Assistant Director to theuniversity's Honors Program. She is also the editor-in-chief for three journalsat LU. Most of her publications and conference presentations are in Victorianliterature (both American and British), which include over 150 articles plusthese book publications: Mary Wollstonecraft'sWar with Womanhood; Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft;Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers: A Hall of Mirrors andthe Long Nineteenth Century; The Life and Works of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson,1835-1909; The Emperor's OldGroove: Decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom; Silent Voices: ForgottenNovels by Victorian Women Writers; Frances Trollope and the Novel of SocialChange; and Dissenting Women in Dickens' Novels: The Subversionof Domestic Ideology. Through Pickering and Chatto, she has been the generaleditor for two, four-volume series, TheSocial Problem Novels of Frances Trollope and The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope, as well as serieseditors for several of the novels in those series and for Jessie Fothergill's Kith and Kin in a series of New WomanFiction soon to be re-released through Routledge. She has also recentlypublished What Dog Lovers Know About God,an inspirational book/Bible study that is the first of seven to follow.
Review:
'marks a welcome return to some of the most joyous works of this prolific and once enormously popular author ... a useful addition to Fanny Trollope's social problem novels, published by Pickering & Chatto in 2009.' Women: A Cultural Review
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1848930798
- ISBN 13 9781848930797
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages1760
- EditorBrenda Ayres, Ann-Barbara Graff, Abigail Burnham Bloom, Tamara S. Wagner, Elsie B. Michie
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