Momentary Female Power through Self-abnegation

Ellen Moody

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[This document is a note to the author's Trollope's Comfort Romances for Men: Heterosexual Male Heroism in his Work — GPL.]

See "Lady Lufton and the Duke of Omnium," Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage, edd. David Skilton and Peter Miles (NY: Penguin, 1984):347-51; Trollope asked Millais to illustrate the incident where Lady Lufton "bests" the Duke; see Hall, Trollope and His Illustrators, pp. 21-24. The incident where the Duke apologizes to Madame Max is much praised in Trollope's criticism, for example by Hagan and Pei, who seem unconcerned about the sexual basis of Palliser's mistrust and what, if anything, Mrs Finn gains by this apology. Trollope's preference for small dove-like brunettes, thin and non-descript includes his feminine or womanly exemplary women, e.g., Lucy Robarts. In The Androgynous Trollope, Rajiva Wijesinha presents Madame Max as an exemplary manly woman in Trollope; she is a "comrade" and "partner" to Phineas in Nardin, 193-201.

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