Can You Forgive her? A Trollope novel

This is the first of the Palliser novels, and concentrates on the marriage of Glencora M'Cluskie, a very wealthy heiress and Plantagent Palliser a rather dull young man who is heir to the duke of Omnium and who is devoted to a political career. There are also 2 other romances in the book, one about a widow who has 2 suitors, and another about Alice Vavasor, a distant relation of Glencora's. Alice has also got 2 suitors and she is a rather serious dull girl, who leads a very quiet life, rarely going into society. She had been in love with her cousin George Vavasor, a wild young man who has a violent streak and who has political ambitions. However she broke off her relationship with him and for some reason, Trollope feels that this makes her ineligible to marry anyone else. But she has another admirer, John Grey, who like Plantagenet, is dull and leads a very quiet life. ALthough he is clearly a more suitable husband than George, Alice shies away from marrying him. (Even in Victorian times, a broken engagement did not bar a woman from society, so its difficult to know why Trollope made this a plot point). THe book is liked because of the Glencora story. She is young and naive, and she has fallen in love with Burgo Fitzgerald, a rake and gambler. He also cared for her as much as he was capable of caring for anyone.. and wanted to marry her. But her family completely forbade the marriage and to stop her from making a bad match, they pressured her into a marriage with Plantagenet. M/F