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Madeline Neroni in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers


[Madeline Neroni], separated from the Italian scoundrel who has wasted her fortune and crippled her limbs, still intent on conquests to be made by her wit and beauty, and utterly lost to all sense of shame in the pursuit, seems to us absolutely unnatural. She is an intrusion upon the stage, utterly out of harmony with the scenes and persons round her, and we cannot but think with the nature of her sex. It is a pity that such a person should have been allowed to force herself on the reader's acquaintance, or on the eminently respectable society of the cathedral city. --Anonymous review ("Mr. Trollope's Novels," October 1858)

One has a vague suspicion, reading this anonymous review, that it might have appeared in Trollope's fictitious Jupiter, or that it was written by Mrs. Proudie herself. At any rate, it is telling that the Signora could have the same unsettling effect on a Victorian reader as she does on Barchester's "eminently respectable society." What is most troubling to this reviewer, and to Barchester, is tha... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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