I like Antony
Trollope, because while he is in many ways a quintessential Victorian, in his
attitudes, he is also much more tolerant and more a “man of the world” than many
Victorian writers.
Trollope realises that people are flawed and foolish, and make mistakes, that marriage isn’t always a happy bed of roses and that love doesn’t always solve problems. He was lucky into that he was writing at a time where a novel could be about a marriage rather than the run up to it. He described marriages of various kinds, and his favourite female character was the flawed but charming Glencora Palliser, a young woman who is forced into a marriage with a serious and dull young man whom she does not love.. She is in love with a “bad lot”, the gambler, Burgo Fitzgerald, and in the early years of her marriage, she wants to leave her husband and run off as Fitzgerald’s mistress. Her husband persuades her to stay and give their marriage a chance, because he loves her, although she is different from him. She is flighty, and often vulgar and wilful, and he is cool and unemotional and finds it hard to relate to people, even his wife and children. She is very human and at times, he is “something more than human,” very virtuous and serious.
I have hoped to
write some fiction about married life, rather than the courtship stage, and
show marriages that are in trouble, marriages that are not too good and not too
bad, and to try and show people as they really are. I don’t claim to be as good
a writer as Trollope, (though like him I am a part timer!), but I hope that
some may like my newer fictions about married life... So far, I have two
stories, “Beds and Blue Jeans” and “Rough Music”.Trollope realises that people are flawed and foolish, and make mistakes, that marriage isn’t always a happy bed of roses and that love doesn’t always solve problems. He was lucky into that he was writing at a time where a novel could be about a marriage rather than the run up to it. He described marriages of various kinds, and his favourite female character was the flawed but charming Glencora Palliser, a young woman who is forced into a marriage with a serious and dull young man whom she does not love.. She is in love with a “bad lot”, the gambler, Burgo Fitzgerald, and in the early years of her marriage, she wants to leave her husband and run off as Fitzgerald’s mistress. Her husband persuades her to stay and give their marriage a chance, because he loves her, although she is different from him. She is flighty, and often vulgar and wilful, and he is cool and unemotional and finds it hard to relate to people, even his wife and children. She is very human and at times, he is “something more than human,” very virtuous and serious.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rough-Music-Nadine-Sutton-ebook/dp/B01AEQS0G0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458478281&sr=8-1&keywords=Rough+music+nadine
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