Professor Linda McClain introduces chapters 71-84 of He Knew He Was Right.

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.

Illustration: ‘Camilla’s wrath’, reproduced from the first edition published by Strahan and Co, London 1869, 2v by Marcus Stone

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