Professor Linda McClain introduces chapters 58-68 of The Duke’s Children 

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.

We are reading the restored text of the first complete edition, which is available in several editions:

• Folio Society, published 2015
• Everyman’s Library, published 2017
• Oxford World’s Classics, published 2021

Resources

• Plot summary and character listing for The Duke’s Children
• Download The Duke’s Children free of charge from Project Gutenberg (Note this is not the restored text)
• The Duke’s Children Restored First Complete Edition – Explanatory notes