Professor Linda McClain introduces chapters 15-27 of Can You Forgive Her?

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, character listing and original illustrations for Can You Forgive Her?
• Download Can You Forgive Her? free of charge from Project Gutenberg
• Linda C. McClain, A “Woman’s Best Right”—To a Husband or the Ballot?: Political and Household Governance in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser Novels, 100 Boston University Law Review 1861 (2020). Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1025