SOURCE: "Independently True to Love," in Times Literary Supplement, No. 4615, September 13, 1991, p. 24.
In the following review of the fourth volume of Betty Jane Breyer's edition of The Complete Short Stories, Letwin argues that the female characters in Trollope's short fiction defy stereotypes of Victorian women as passive and dependent; instead, she contends, Trollope offers "spirited, independent, self-moving, unresentful heroines."
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