Engaged to the ambitious and selfserving Adolphus Crosbie Lily Dale isdevastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina. Althoughcrushed by his... » 

Engaged to the ambitious and selfserving Adolphus Crosbie Lily Dale isdevastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina. Althoughcrushed by his faithlessness Lily still believes she is bound to her unworthyformer fiance for life and therefore condemned to remain single after hisbetrayal. And when a more deserving suitor pays his addresses she is unable tosee past her feelings for Crosbie. Written when Trollope was at the height ofhis popularity The Small House at Allington 1864 contains his most admiredheroine in Lily Dale a young woman of independent spirit who nonetheless longsto be loved and is a moving dramatization of the ways in which personaldilemmas are affected by social pressures. «