Reading Can You Forgive Her? | Alexandria
Read Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope. Exploring Victorian gender norms, Trollope's icon exposes how "virtuous" manipulation controls women's choices. She navigates social pressure, financial ruin, and romantic ideals while challenging assumptions about female agency. His radical twist? The real villain isn't individual men, but society's contradictory demands on women - a pattern eerily familiar today.