Miss MacKenzie (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

from pgchuis

Margaret Mackenzie inherits a modest fortune from her brother in her mid-thirties and moves to a spa town to begin her life. There she (not entirely intentionally) moves in strictly Evangelical circles and considers a proposal from a curate with a terrible squint. She also considers marrying her ...

from NinieB

Miss Mackenzie is in her mid-thirties, and naturally good, when she unexpectedly inherits around £10,000, enough to live comfortably in 1865. She moves to a fashionable watering-place, where she joins an evangelical church with a squinting but ambitious curate. Her brother's business partner show...

from Renz0808

I have to admit this is my first novel written by Anthony Trollope. I have some of his other books but I haven't read any of them yet. I decided to pick this one up first because it was the shortest of the ones I have. I really enjoyed it! The book is such a excellent and subtle satire. Our heroi...

from stringcat3

Solid AT but one of his most melancholy novels. The dreariness of our heroine's life made me a bit heartsore, having experienced some of her plight from time to time as a superfluous (i.e., unmarried) female who didn't marry until age 35. Okay - I wasn't nursing an invalid brother, wasn't shelter...

from gbelik

Not one of Trollope's best, I think. It deals (at length) with Miss Mackenzie, a very honorable, less than young, woman, her financial difficulties and marriage prospects.