Professor Linda McClain introduces chapters 13-24 of The Claverings

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 has published an article about “the woman question” in the Palliser novels and (with Allison Tait) about the various forms of nonmarital households in Trollope’s novels.

The Claverings was first published in book format by London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. 2V. Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine, Feb. 1866-May 1867.

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The Claverings, Chapter 13-24 – Linda McClain

Resources

• Plot summary and character listing for The Claverings
• Download The Claverings free of charge from Project Gutenberg