[Gutenberg 16804] • An Eye for an Eye

• Two of British author Anthony Trollope’s Victorian novels are bound together in this Kindle eBook: An Eye for an Eye & Cousin Henry

An Eye for an Eye

Fred Neville, a lieutenant of cavalry and heir to the earldom of Scroope, woos and then seduces the beautiful Kate O’Hara. Kate lives with her mother in genteel poverty in an isolated cottage near the cliffs of Moher in western Ireland.

News of the romantic entanglement quickly reaches Scroope Manor, and Fred is summoned back to Dorsetshire where the earl extracts a firm undertaking that Fred will not marry Kate O’Hara under any circumstances, despite any promises he has made to the girl. Once back in Ireland, Fred is confronted at his barracks by Mrs. O’Hara, demanding to know when he intends to marry her daughter, who is carrying his baby. He is shamed into agreeing to visit Kate, but that evening word arrives that the old Earl has died, and that Fred is now the Earl of Scroope. Fred realizes that marriage to Kate O’Hara is out of the question as her background would make her quite unacceptable.

An Eye for an Eye is one of five novels which Trollope set mainly in Ireland. Much of the story takes place at Scroope Manor in Dorsetshire, the ancestral home of the ageing Earl of Scroope.

Cousin Henry

Indefer Jones is an aged squire of a large manor in Wales. His niece, Isabel Brodrick, has lived with him for years after the remarriage of her father, and endeared herself to everyone. However, according to his strong traditional beliefs, the estate should be bequeathed to a male heir. But is he good enough?

About The Author

English author Anthony Trollope (1815 –1882) was a Victorian-era author who wrote novels including The Chronicles of Barsetshire Series, a collection of six novels (published in two volumes). Among his many works are:

The Warden (1855)

Barchester Towers (1857)

Doctor Thorne (1858)

Framley Parsonage (1861)

The Small House at Allington (1864)

The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)