Plot
Sir Thomas Fitzgerald, a wealthy landowner living
at Castle Richmond,
For some time before the story opens, Matthew
Mollett, representing himself to be Lady Fitzgerald's
first husband, had been blackmailing Sir Thomas, threatening an exposure that
would make their children illegitimate and give the estate to Owen. Mr.
Prendergast, the family lawyer, urged a frank acceptance of the situation. Sir
Thomas died, broken-hearted, and the family were preparing to leave the castle
when the lawyer discovered that Mollett had been
married before he met Mary Wainwright and that consequently her marriage to Sir
Thomas was a legal one. Herbert succeeded to the estate and married Lady Clara
Desmond. Throughout the book there are moving descriptions of the famine of
1846-47.
GEROULD,
WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
Reprinted by permission of
Url: http://www.anthonytrollope.com/
Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés
López
©Davinia Moreno Arroyo
Universitat de Valčncia
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