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Nearly half-way through Can You Forgive Her? the narrator turns to the question posed in the title:
But can you forgive her, delicate reader? Or am I asking the question too early in my story? For myself, I have forgiven her. The story of her struggle has been present to my mind for many years, — and I have learned to think that even this offence against womanhood may, with deep repentance, be forgiven. And you also must forgive her before we close the book, or else my story will have been told amiss.
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Notes and References
Henry James’s review of Can You Forgive Her?, Nation (New York, 28 September 1865),
reprinted in Smalley, Anthony Trollope: The Critical Heritage, pp. 249–50. (The novel was published in twenty monthly shilling parts from January 1864 to August 1865.)
Michael Sadleir’s introduction to Can You Forgive Her? (London: Oxford University Press, 1948), pp. v–vi.
Norris D. Hoyt, ‘Can You Forgive Her;: A Commentary’, The Trollopian, 2 (1947), 70.
George Levine, ‘Can You Forgive Him? Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her? and the Myth of Realism’, Victorian Studies, 18 (1974–5), 5, 6, 26.
In the comparison of Trollope and James I have been much benefited by two earlier essays, that of Blair Gates Kenny, ‘The Two Isabels: A Study in Distortion’, Victorian Newsletter, 25 (Spring 1964), 15–17;
and that of John Halperin, ‘Trollope, James and the International Theme’ , Yearbook of English Studies, 7 (1977), 141–7.
Lowry Pei, ‘The Duke’s Children: Reflection and Reconciliation’, Modern Language Quarterly, 39 (1978), 298.
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Wright, A. (1983). The Palliser Novels. In: Anthony Trollope Dream and Art. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06626-1_4
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