1st Edition

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope

1760 Pages
by Routledge

1760 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Volume 1

General Introduction by Brenda Ayres

The Widow Barnaby (1839)

Edited by Ann-Barbara Graff

Introduction by Ann-Barbara Graff

Volume 2

The Widow Married; A Sequel to the Widow Barnaby (1840)

Edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom

Introduction by Abigail Burnham Bloom

Volume 3

The Barnabys in America; or, Adventures of the Widow Wedded (1843)

Edited by Tamara S. Wagner

Introduction by Tamara S. Wagner

Volume 4

The Lottery of Marriage (1849)

Edited by Elsie B. Michie

Introduction by Elsie B. Michie

Biography

Volume 1: General Introduction by Brenda Ayres, The Widow Barnaby (1839) Edited by Ann-Barbara Graf; Volume 2: The Widow Married; a Sequel to the Widow Barnaby (1840), Edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom; Volume 3: The Barnabys in America; or, Adventures of the Widow Wedded (1843), Edited by Tamara S. Wagner; Volume 4: The Lottery of Marriage (1849); Edited by Elsie B. Michie