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The Parliamentary (Palliser) Novels

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Pages:43-44
Kailash Chander (Research Scholar, Dravidian University Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh)

It has been usual for some years now to group together “Can You Forgive Her”? “Phiness Finn”, “The Eustace Diamonds”, “Phiness-Redux”, “The Prime Minister”, and “The Duke’s Children” under the heading of the Political or Parliamentary Novels or, more recently, the Palliser Novels. And yet Trollope never made this grouping himself. Indeed, the promotion of the six into a separate category occurred long after his death. In ‘Anthony Trollope : A Commentary”, Micheal Sadleir Listed the six together as the Political Novels. Although the division of the novels was largely his own, it derived in part from a compilation by Spence Nichols in the Significance of Anthony Trollope, Nichols, in turn, had accepted the classification made by Speare, who discussed the six novels together in his book on “The Political Novels”. Speare however, refused to accept “Can You Forgive Her? as a genuine part of the series.1 He referred his readers to T.H.S. Escott, who dealt with the novels together as political in tone and focus but never actually gave them any subsuming collective name. nevertheless Dodd, Mead & Company reissued the six novels in various editions between 1893 and 1928 with the words “The Parliamentary Novels” on the spine. More recently, in an Introduction to “Can You Forgive Her’? Sadleir proposed that “Pallisar Novels” would be a more appropriate term than any of the others, the term gained acceptance, so that when in 1950 the Oxford University Press began publishing its “Illustrated Trollope” edition it substituted the term “Palliser Novels” for the more usual “Parliamentary Novels. “The six novels have recently been reissued in paperback by Oxford once again as “The Palliser Novels”.

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Pages:43-44
Kailash Chander (Research Scholar, Dravidian University Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh)