num_pages: 847
description: Can You Forgive Her? (1864-5) is the first of the six famous Palliser novels which, as a group, provide us with the most extensive and contradictory expose of British life during the period of its greatest prestige. In Can You Forgive Her? Trollope inextricably binds together the issues of parliamentary election and marriage, of politics and privacy. The values and aspirations of the governing stratum of Victorian society are ruthlessly examined and none remain unscathed. Above all Trollope focuses on the predicament of women. 'What should a woman do with her life?' asks Alice Vavasor of herself, and this theme is echoed by every other woman in the novel, from the uncomfortably married Lady Glencora to the coquettish Mrs Greenow and Alice's clear-headed cousin, Kate.
language: English
title: Can You Forgive Her?
titlecomplete: Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1)
characters: Plantagenet Palliser, Alice Vavasor, Kate Vavasor, John Grey, Glencora Palliser, George Vavasor
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Novels, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance, British Literature
ratings_count: 7619
series: Palliser
publisher: Penguin Classics