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Is He Popenjoy ?

by Anthony Trollope

Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues are complicated by the specter of possible illegitimacy. Lord George Germain, a thoroughly respectable, upstanding, if not particularly bright younger son with new wife, rather expects to inherit a title, since his vicious and dissolute elder brother, the Marquis of Brotherton, who lives in Italy, shows no signs of settling down and producing heirs. Then comes a thunderbolt in the form of a letter from the Marquis suddenly claiming that he has, late in life, married an Italian widow and sired a son. This little boy, if he is indeed legitimate, is Lord Popenjoy and the heir to the marquisate. But is he legitimate? Are his parents in fact properly united in holy wedlock? And were they so at the time of his birth on alien soil? How on earth to find out? The book, which starts almost as a comedy of manners (and perhaps also a comedy of manors), takes on a darker and more sardonic tone with this mystery, and with some other suspected and actual romantic entanglements which are not entirely in the aristocratic Victorian rule-book. Among the large cast of characters are two memorable foreigners: the repellent German feminist Baroness Bannmann, and the rather more attractive American version, Amelia Q. Fleabody (not, of course, to be confused in any way with the real Elizabeth Peabody, who under another name, lies at the heart of Henry James's The Bostonians).

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English

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English

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1878

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Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves ar...

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03 - Life at Manor Cross
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04 - At the Deanery
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05 - Miss Tallowax is Shown the House
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06 - Bad Tidings
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07 - Cross Hall Gate
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08 - Pugsby Brook
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09 - Mrs. Houghton
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10 - The Dean as a Sporting Man
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11 - Lord and Lady George go up to Town
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12 - Miss Mildmay and Jack de Baron
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13 - More News from Italy
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14 - 'Are we to Call Him Popenjoy ?'
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15 - 'Drop It'
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16 - All is Fish that Comes to his Net
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17 - The Disabilities
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18 - Lord George up in London
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19 - Rather 'Boisterous'
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20 - Between Two Stools
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21 - The Marquis Comes Home
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22 - The Marquis Amongst Friends
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23 - The Marquis Sees his Brother
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24 - The Marquis Goes into Bretherton
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25 - Lady Susanna in London
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26 - The Dean Returns to Town
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27 - The Baroness Banmann Again
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28 - What Matter if She Does'
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29 - Mr. Houghton Wants a Glass of Sherry
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30 - The Dean is Very Busy
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31 - The Marquis Migrates to London
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32 - Lord George is Troubled
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33 - Captain de Baron
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34 - A Dreadful Communication
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35 - 'I Deny It'
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36 - Popenjoy is Popenjoy
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37 - Preparations for the Ball
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38 - The Kappa Kappa
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39 - Rebellion
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40 - As to Bluebeard
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41 - Scumberg's
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42 - 'Not Go!'
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43 - Real Love
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44 - What the Brotherton Clergymen Said About It.
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45 - Lady George at the Deanery
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46 - Lady Sarah's Mission
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47 - That Young Fellow in There
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48 - The Marquis Makes a Proposition
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49 - 'Wouldn't you Come Here - For a Week ?'
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50 - Rudham Park
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51 - Guss Mildmay's Success
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52 - Another Lover
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53 - Poor Popenjoy
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54 - Jack de Baron's Virtue
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55 - How Could He Help It
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56 - Sir Henry Said it was the Only Thing
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57 - Mr. Knox Hears Again from the Marquis
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58 - Mrs. Jones' Letter
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59 - Back in London
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60 - The Last of the Baroness
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61 - The News Comes Home
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62 - The Will
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63 - Popenjoy is Born and Christened
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64 - Conclusion
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