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The eternal liberal wisdom of PlantyPall
I wasn’t thinking about politics when recently I re-read Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels. I was considering the emotional risk in revisiting favorite fiction. To wit: I was in turbulent adolescence when I first read Wuthering Heights, so naturally Heathcliff became … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Culture, Government, Politics, The Facts of Life, The War On Workers, War
Tagged "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", "The Prime Minister", Anthony Trollope, Congress, conservatism, Duke of Omnium, Eric Bogle, Gallipoli, Heathcliff, June Tabor, liberalism, Parliament, Plantagenet Palliser, PlantyPall, The Duke's Children, The Palliser Novels, World War I, Wuthering Heights
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American government v British government: political fiction?
Toward the end of Anthony Trollope’s The Duke’s Children, an American intellectual, Mr. Boncassen, whose daughter is about to marry Silverbridge, the Duke’s son, engages in an after dinner political conversation. In one of Trollope’s complex but explicit descriptions of … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged American elections, Anthony Trollope, Rutherford B. Hayes, The Duke's Children
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle? Well…
He had, he thought, been very firm and gave himself some credit on that head. His father, no doubt, had been firm too, but that he had expected. His father had said much. All that about honour and duty had … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged Anthony Trollope, Duchess of Sussex, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, The Duke's Children
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