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Novel 190: Frances Milton Trollope, The Widow Married (1840)

Frederick Daniel Hardy, The Misdeal
Frederick Daniel Hardy, The Misdeal

The further adventures of the former Widow Barnaby, after her remarriage.


The saga continues.

“The sketches of life and society are often characteristic and amusing.”  Literary Gazette, March 14, 1840

“‘The Widow Married’ will amuse all who are not over nice; and we are not sure that Mrs. Trollope ever hit off two portraits happier and more guiltless of caricature than those of the sisters Perkins.” Athenaeum, April 4, 1840

“It is a picture and an exaggerated one, but still a picture of some very disagreeable and immoral people.”  Sunday Times, April 5, 1840

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