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Book Review
Aug. 21st, 2024 01:11 pmThe Duke's Children
by Anthony Trollope
This is the final Palliser novel. Here we find Duke Plantagenet Palliser widowed and somewhat adrift. Without his late wife, he must deal with his three children and their entry into adulthood. Both his eldest son and his daughter fall in love with people who are not of equal wealth and station, thus defying traditional notions of suitability and propriety. The younger son gets himself into a series of scrapes while at university, causing further consternation for the Duke. After a lot of internal and external struggle, Plantagenet eventually comes around and accepts his son's and daughter's marital choices and comes to terms with the changes that are occurring in his world.
The Duke's Children in some ways refutes the conservatism of The Prime Minister. Here, patriarchal authority is successfully interrogated and renegotiated. Those who do not quite fit into upper aristocratic society are nonetheless good people of worthy character. Love and contentment win out over rigid adherence to old-fashioned notions of duty propriety. The old and the new find accommodation with each other.
by Anthony Trollope
This is the final Palliser novel. Here we find Duke Plantagenet Palliser widowed and somewhat adrift. Without his late wife, he must deal with his three children and their entry into adulthood. Both his eldest son and his daughter fall in love with people who are not of equal wealth and station, thus defying traditional notions of suitability and propriety. The younger son gets himself into a series of scrapes while at university, causing further consternation for the Duke. After a lot of internal and external struggle, Plantagenet eventually comes around and accepts his son's and daughter's marital choices and comes to terms with the changes that are occurring in his world.
The Duke's Children in some ways refutes the conservatism of The Prime Minister. Here, patriarchal authority is successfully interrogated and renegotiated. Those who do not quite fit into upper aristocratic society are nonetheless good people of worthy character. Love and contentment win out over rigid adherence to old-fashioned notions of duty propriety. The old and the new find accommodation with each other.
