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Charity Scandals as a Catalyst of Legal Change and Literary Imagination in Nineteenth Century England (Part 3)

by James J. Fishman

James Fishman is Professor of Law Emeritus, Haub School of Law at Pace University. This is the second part of an article which originally appeared in the Summer 2005 edition of the Michigan State Law Review and is reproduced here by kind permission. Citations and references included in the original have been omitted here for reasons of space.

Marion Fay and J. Pierpoint Morgan

by Jeanne Reed

In Marion Fay, Trollope charts a doomed romance between a Quaker heroine and a peer’s son, shaped by class and the threat of consumption. Jeanne Reed finds compelling parallels with the real-life love story of American financier J. Pierpont Morgan and Amelia Sturges, who died of tuberculosis months after their marriage. Reed draws on Trollope’s personal losses, moral vision, and historical context to reveal fresh insight into love, death and duty in fiction and life.

The Trollope Society Conference 2026

Registration is now open for the Trollope Society Conference 2026: Trollope: The Law and Transgression, taking place at Magdalene College, Cambridge on 27–28 March 2026. Professor Dinah Birch will open the conference, which will explore legal and social boundaries in Trollope’s fiction.

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