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The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope
Jun. 23rd, 2013 12:54 pmA small, apt witticism present in it:
To be robbed of one's grievance is the last and foulest wrong.
There's a secondary female character whose past involved a comparable situation to Helen Huntingdon of TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL. There are various characters who are complex and neither entirely right nor entirely wrong--mixed up and complicated and interesting, at least in parts (as the curate remarked about his egg).
The plot echoes CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?, but with significant differences in the leading male characters. William Belton the farmer reminded me of one of Frances Hodgson Burnett's types of hero--the good-hearted, energetic, nature-loving, outdoorsy, practical, steadfast, undecorative, thoroughly wholesome sort.
The central conflict is relatively simple with an obvious resolution, but nonetheless the characters are mostly of interest. Clara's character begins auspiciously, but is quite lost to a slurry of indecision and uncertainty. The story begins with far more promise than it ends.
To be robbed of one's grievance is the last and foulest wrong.
There's a secondary female character whose past involved a comparable situation to Helen Huntingdon of TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL. There are various characters who are complex and neither entirely right nor entirely wrong--mixed up and complicated and interesting, at least in parts (as the curate remarked about his egg).
The plot echoes CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?, but with significant differences in the leading male characters. William Belton the farmer reminded me of one of Frances Hodgson Burnett's types of hero--the good-hearted, energetic, nature-loving, outdoorsy, practical, steadfast, undecorative, thoroughly wholesome sort.
The central conflict is relatively simple with an obvious resolution, but nonetheless the characters are mostly of interest. Clara's character begins auspiciously, but is quite lost to a slurry of indecision and uncertainty. The story begins with far more promise than it ends.
