Professor Linda McClain introduces chapters 40-52 of Ayala’s Angel.

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.

Ayala’s Angel was originally published in three volumes by Chapman and Hall, London, in 1881.

Resources

• Plot summary and character listing for Ayala’s Angel
• Download Ayala’s Angel free of charge from Project Gutenberg