The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.

Brenda Ayres, Ann-Barbara Graff, Abigail Burnham Bloom, Tamata S. Wagner, Elsie B. Michie