A country girl is engaged to a rising young man who then finds a better offer in London, and the book stays with her afterwards rather than with him. Trollope reckoned Lily Dale a female prig and could not get rid of her; readers wrote to demand she be given the other man, and he refused.
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Phineas Finn : The Irish Member
Framley Parsonage : A Young Parson in Debt to His Betters
He Knew He Was Right : A Husband Destroyed by His Own Suspicion
Castle Richmond : Set in Ireland in the Famine Year
The Kellys and the O'Kellys : or, Landlords and Tenants
The Warden : Mr. Harding and the Income of Hiram's Hospital
An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope : The Post Office, the Novels and the Money
The Way We Live Now : London Seduced by a Financial Swindler
An Old Man's Love : A Late Novel of Guardianship
The Duke's Children : A Widowed Duke and Three Marriages
Can You Forgive Her? : Three Women and Their Choices of Husband