SOURCE: "Love and Famine, Family and Country in Trollope's Castle Richmond," in É ire-Ireland, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter, 1972, pp. 48-66.

In the following essay, Hennedy examines the relationship in Anthony Trollope's Castle Richmond (1860) between the love story and the Famine backdrop. The critic argues, contrary to earlier scholarship, that Trollope established a thematic and situational parallelism in the novel between family and country, but concedes that both examples of such parallelism suffer to a degree from disproportion.

Although Castle Richmond (1860), Anthony Trollope's ninth novel, "was at once translated into five different languages—Dutch, Danish, French, German, and Russian ..." and "No other Trollope novel was so honored,"¹ it has not turned out to be one of Trollope's more popular novels. It has not, for instance, been reprinted in the Oxford World's Classics series, the edition that contains more of Trollope's novels than any other modern edition.² And one critic in the...