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My Favourite Anthony Trollope Characters | Trollope Thursday

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Loved

She's an older woman who owns quite a lot of property who has a lot of very strong opinions which she doesn't like to keep to herself but in her heart she is lonely and desperate for human connection and her character arc over the course of the book and her desire to make a connection with her niece is just so beautifully done.

Loved

I think he is a wonderful character so well drawn so rich and engaging and lovely I just really love him like a lot of these characters in this list are characters who I like because they're really fun to read about.

Loved

He also wants to be a novelist, and there's various points in the book where you get to like read some of his early short stories and like him trying to get into writing and like reading his work aloud to other people and all of that stuff is just really, really fun.