Research Catalog

Title

The landleaguers / Anthony Trollope ; introduction by Frank Delaney.

Author

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882

Publication

London : Trollope Society, [1995]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Delaney, Frank, 1942-2017
• Trollope Society
• Folio Society (London, England)

Description

xix, 357 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The Landleaguers, Trollope's last novel, is set in Ireland during the Land War of the early 1880s. It is both a documentary record, closely following events in Westminster and the Irish countryside, and a meditative fantasy. A landlord's son is murdered by rural terrorists, a crime that replays the real-life assassination of Lord Frederic Cavendish in Dublin in 1882, and the novel traces the violent disruption of civil life as tenants, organized in the Land League, plot to force their landlords to give them a better deal. But part of Trollope's imaginative response to the crisis takes the form of an intriguingly uncharacteristic sub-plot, in which a young American woman travels to London and tries to make a name for herself on the operatic stage, while her father becomes a landleaguing Member of Parliament.

Series Statement

• The Trollope Society edition of the novels of Anthony Trollope
• Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. Novels.

Subject

• 1800-1901
• Land reform > Ireland > History > 19th century > Fiction
• Ireland > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction
• Ireland > Politics and government > 1837-1901 > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• History

Note

• "This edition is based on the text as it appeared in the Chatto & Windus version [1883] with minor errors corrected"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1870587413

OCLC

• 34069888
• SCSB-12613752

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library