Professor Deborah Denenholz Morse gives the concluding talk of our Ayala’s Angel BIG READ, titled “Defending ‘Vulgar’ Female Desire in the English Realist Novel: Ayala’s Angel”.

Deborah Denenholz Morse is the NEH Professor of English at William & Mary and Plumeri Faculty Excellence Scholar. She is the author of Women in Trollope’s Palliser Novels (1987) and Reforming Trollope: Race, Gender, and Englishness in the Novels of Anthony Trollope (2013). Deborah co-edited The Politics of Gender in the Novels of Anthony Trollope (with Margaret Markwick and Regenia Gagnier, 2009) and The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope (with Margaret Markwick and Mark Turner, 2016). Her most recent articles on Trollope are “Mourning Glencora” in My Victorian Novel (2020), edited by Annette Federico, and “Handling Private Dramas of Class and Gender in Anthony Trollope’s The Duke’s Children” in Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies (2020), edited by Pete Capuano and Sue Zemka.

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