"Can You Forgive Her" by Anthony Trolllope.
This is the novel which elicited the famous response from James: "Can we forgive her? Yes; and forget her too."
I have to say that, much as I enjoy much of Trollope's scenes of victorian clerical and political life, the heroine Alice Vavasor is so blandly passive that she makes Fanny Price (q.v.) seem like Katie Price. One of the few Trollope novels which don't stand the test of time, I'm afraid.
This is the novel which elicited the famous response from James: "Can we forgive her? Yes; and forget her too."
I have to say that, much as I enjoy much of Trollope's scenes of victorian clerical and political life, the heroine Alice Vavasor is so blandly passive that she makes Fanny Price (q.v.) seem like Katie Price. One of the few Trollope novels which don't stand the test of time, I'm afraid.
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