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Novel 267: Frances Eleanor Trollope, Like Ships Upon the Sea (1883)

David Roberts, Rome, View on the Tiber Looking Towards Mounts Palatine and Aventine
David Roberts, Rome, View on the Tiber Looking Towards Mounts Palatine and Aventine

A young Englishwoman visits Rome and falls in love.

For Trollope see Novels 033, 108, and 202.

It “possesses one of the first requisites for a novel in being interesting.  It is not too long.  The scene is laid in Italy, and the book contains just enough of history and politics to give the story a spice above that of the ordinary society novel; and though there is little plot, there is enough to elicit some very clever character-drawing.” Critic, June 2, 1883

“There is a good deal of originality in the mixture of characters, and the author shows that she must have a considerable knowledge of the ways and thoughts of the Italians of to-day.  The story . . . is told effectively and with nice feeling in the author’s pleasant and graceful style.”  Athenaeum, July 7, 1883

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