Professor Deborah Morse gives the concluding talk of our Is He Popenjoy? BIG READ.

Deborah Denenholz Morse is the NEH Professor of English at William & Mary and Plumeri Faculty Excellence Scholar.

Deborah 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

Is He Popenjoy? was originally published in All the Year Round, Oct. 13, 1877 – July 13, 1878. First published in book format London, Chapman and Hall, 1878. 3v.

Resources

• Plot summary and character listing for Is He Popenjoy?
• Download Is He Popenjoy? free of charge from Project Gutenberg