Other Fiction Trollope, Anthony: Castle Richmond. V1. 21 Apr 2013

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Castle Richmond is set in Ireland during the famine years of 1845-47, a time when Trollope was living in the rural south-west of the country as an official of the Post Office. It tells the story of the Fitzgeralds and their fight to survive a threat to possession of their family home, Castle Richmond. When Sir Thomas is blackmailed by the unscrupulous Molletts, his son, Herbert, is threatened with disinheritance; meanwhile both Herbert and his dashing cousin Owen compete for the hand of Clara Desmond, whose mother would secretly like Owen for herself. At the same time Trollope's scrupulous accuracy in recording prices, earnings, dates, and topography creates a disturbing picture of the lives of the Irish poor both before and during the famine.

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