Miss Mackenzie

by Anthony Trollope (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $20.12

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $3.97

  This novel, written in 1864 and first published in 1865, follows the fortunes of a middle-aged spinster overwhelmed with money troubles , as she tries to assess the worth and motives of four very different suitors. In Miss Mackenzie , Trollope made a deliberate attempt to prove that a novel may be produced without love , by choosing as his heroine an unattractive, middle-aged woman, but as he admits in his autobiography, even in this attempt it breaks down before the conclusion and she was in love by the end of the book and made a romantic marriage. At the same time, Trollope also gives a comic portrait of evangelical society in a provincial watering-place. The editor, A.O.J. Cockshut is author of Truth to life and Art of autobiography as well as studies of Trollope, Dickens and Scott, and the chronology is by John Halperin.