Professor Linda McClain introduces Chapters 53-66 of The American Senator.

Linda McClain is the Robert Kent Professor of Law at Boston University. She writes and teaches in the areas of family law and gender and law and is the author of several books, most recently Who’s the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her first introduction to Trollope was The Warden. She recently published an article about “the woman question” in the Palliser novels and is hoping to begin a book-length project on Trollope’s novels.

Resources

• Plot summary and character listing of The American Senator
• Download The American Senator free of charge from Project Gutenberg
• Trollopiana Archive – ‘A Victorian Novel ~ Trollope’s The American Senator‘ by Clement Greenberg, Trollopiana 38, August 1997

Map of Dillsborough

Reproduced from A Guide to Trollope by Winifred Gregory Geroud and James Thayer Gerould with drawings by Florence W Ewing.

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