Pdf ☆ Miss Mackenzie  Anthony Trollope
In Miss Mackenzie Trollope made a deliberate attempt to prove that a novel may be produced without any love but as he candidly admits in his Autobiography the attempt breaks down before the conc I can think of no amiable writer than Anthony Trollope whose novels can be read again and again without any diminution of their original power As a member of the Yahoo Trollope group I have read approximately three uarters of his 47 novels many of them twice and at least one of them The Way We Live Now three times What is there about Trollope's work that makes it so multiply readable My answer would have to include such factors as his high moral tone without appearing to be priggish in the slightest along with his delight in creating complicated stories with a large cast of characters Curiously he tends to fall flat in his short stories and most of his shorter novels are not among his best I would have to make an exception however of Miss Mackenzie a novel whose heroine is beyond the first flush of youth and who finds herself with a generous inheritance from the brother she had nursed for many yearsSomehow she approached the middle years with a physical and moral attractiveness which together with her fortune make her the target of a number of persistent suitors ranging from an Evangelical clergyman with a demonic suint to the not uite honest son of her brother's partner in trade to an impoverished widower with children who also happens to be a baronetHow Trollope weaves his way through these sticky situations is a wonder I liked Miss Mackenzie the first time I read it; but now I would have to say my admiration has increased Most nineteenth century novels do not concern themselves with the loves of women who have been around the track a few times That Trollope succeeds in doing so at the same time as he makes us appreciate her many virtues is a rare accomplishment
Anthony Trollope  Miss Mackenzie Book
Miss MackenzieLusionIn taking for his heroine an middle aged spinster his contemporaries of writing about young girls in love Instead he depicts Margaret Mackenzie overwhelmed with money troubles as she tries A very pleasant read although the story itself could have easily ended 50 pages sooner However the filler created by Trollope was also enjoyable It was an interesting portrait of a woman on her own in 19th century England I became uite attached to Miss Mackenzie and absorbed in her storyAnd as always Trollope's prose is smooth and comforting There is lots of plot events and the usual range of Victorian characters