Philip Calderon, Margaret
A clever and ambitious noblewoman, displaced in inheritance by her infant brother, plots against him.
Here is another novel by Frances Trollope (see Novels 029 and 079), mother of Anthony and T. Adolphus, mother-in-law of Frances Eleanor. Written early in her career, it combines involving melodrama with small-town social satire.
“The idea . . . is a very bold one, and has been wrought out with great skill.” Athenaeum, September 12, 1835
“The outline of the story is well conceived, and though there are gross improbabilities in the working out of the plot, it is in the main circumstances ingeniously involved. Some of the little sketches of society in the neighborhood of a country town are fresh and animated; and some of the characters are happily conceived and well sustained.” Examiner, October 25, 1835
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