Can You Forgive Her?

novel by Trollope

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Can You Forgive Her?, novel by Anthony Trollope, published serially in 1864–65 and in two volumes in 1864–65. The work was the first of his Palliser novels, named for the character of Plantagenet Palliser, who is introduced in this novel. It tells the interwoven stories of two women, Alice Vavasor and Lady Glencora M’Cluskie, who struggle to come to terms with the choices available to them concerning marriage.

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