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The Macdermots of Ballycloran is a novel by Anthony Trollope. It was Trollope's first published novel, which he began in September 1843 and completed by June 1845. The narrative of The Macdermots of Ballycloran 'chronicles the tragic demise of a small Catholic landowning family in the Protestant-dominated Ireland of the mid nineteenth century. It focuses on the struggle of Thady Macdermot to keep his sinking property afloat. Thady lives with his father...
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The Vicar of Bullhampton is an 1870 novel by Anthony Trollope. It is made up of three intertwining subplots: the courtship of a young woman by two suitors; a feud between the titular Broad church vicar and a Low church nobleman, abetted by a Methodist minister; and the vicar's attempt to rehabilitate a young woman who has gone astray. Trollope expected his depiction of a fallen woman to be controversial, and unusually for him wrote a preface defending...
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A young Irishman just elected to Parliament longs for Lady Laura, who has sacrificed her fortune to save her brother. However, Phineas decides maybe he should marry the Lady's best friend, the heiress Violet Effingham-or, possibly he should return to the love of Mary Jones, his childhood sweetheart. This 1867-68 serial is the second novel of "The Pallisers."
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