num_pages: 415
description: Rachel Ray offers a masterly and entertaining evocation of a small community living its life in mid-nineteenth-century England. The novel first appeared in 1863, a year in which public reaction against the excesses of the popular sensationalist novel prompted Trollope to state that he was writing about "the commonest details of commonplace life among the most ordinary people."
language: English
title: Rachel Ray
titlecomplete: Rachel Ray (Oxford World's Classics)
characters: Rachel Ray, Luke Rowan
genres: Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Classic Literature, English Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 1040
places: England
publisher: Oxford University Press