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Frances Milton Trollope (Author)
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THE ABBESS. CHMTER 1. Un-:creur sensible craint Ie repos qu'il ne connait pas. J. J. ROUSSEAU. THE castle of Albano, situated at the north western extremity of the Yelletian Gulf, about lIalf-way between Aquilea and Villa Franca, was one of the noblest private dwellings in Italy. 1t is now in ruins, but the relics which remaiu are sufficient to show both its magnificent extent, alld the prond style of its architecture. A too stately habitation is a heayy tax upon the o~l1er of it; while it excites the pride of pomp, it exltausts the means of sustaining it, alld it sometimes happens tImt the straightened heir is obliged to sllbmit, within its lofty chambers, to YOL. I. II

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  • Paperback: 326 pages
  • Publisher: Forgotten Books (June 9, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 144005746X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1440057465
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gothic thrills & chills (volume one), December 27, 2009
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This review is from: The Abbess, Vol. 1 of 3: A Romance (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
Fanny Trollope supported her seven children and ailing husband by her pen. Starting a literary career at age 53, she quickly became one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. She wrote travel books, murder mysteries, romances, satires and novels attacking social injustices.

In The Abbess, an early work published in 1833, Fanny Trollope tried her hand at the Gothic romance. The setting is sixteenth-century Italy. Catholics and Protestants were bitter enemies, and their mutual hatred is central to the plot of The Abbess.

The troubles of the noble d'Albano family begin when the sixth Count d'Albano marries a Protestant Englishwoman. He atones for marrying a "heretic" by making his beautiful daughter Geraldine a nun. She eventually becomes Abbess of a rich nunnery, and an advisor herself to cardinals.

The seventh Count d'Albano also decides to make a nun of his daughter, in this case to save money. But sixteen-year-old Juliet loathes the idea of a convent. Her saintly aunt, the Abbess, is invited to the castle to put pressure on Juliet, and this is the beginning of a charming friendship between the two. Amazingly, the Abbess is secretly a maverick herself and takes Juliet's side.

Most Gothic heroines faint a lot. But Juliet d'Albano is as feisty, resourceful and courageous as a heroine in a twenty-first-century action movie.

She pledges her love to a handsome young man without knowing his name. She saves lives, stands up to the Inquisition, survives a shipwreck - and the reader accepts, and delights in, these adventures because Fanny Trollope has peopled her gothic novel with totally engaging characters.

The Abbess is a novel in three volumes, and you can get all three on Amazon, published by Forgotten Books, at a reasonable price for historic reprints.

Probably more typical of Fanny Trollope are novels like The Widow Barnaby, The Three Cousins, Hargrave, The Vicar of Wrexhill and Jessie Phillips. I'd recommend reading everything you can find by this remarkable writer.
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