The Project

Anthony Trollope, under duress at a vulnerable moment in his career, cut over 22 percent of The Duke’s Children, the final novel in his famed Palliser series. The complete text—reconstructed from the manuscript housed at the Beinecke Library, Yale University—is published by the Folio Society (2015), Everyman’s Library (2017), and Oxford University Press (2020).

About the Editor

Steven Amarnick is Professor of English at the City University of New York (Kingsborough Community College). In addition to his work on The Duke's Children, he has lectured and written extensively on other aspects of Trollope's fiction and nonfiction. Most recently, he is author of “A Christmas Cavil: Trollope Re-Writes Dickens in the Outback,” in The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope (Edinburgh University Press, 2018); “Can You Forgive Him?: Trollope, Jews, and Prejudice,” in The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope (Routledge, 2016); and “Killing Mrs. Proudie,” in Trollopiana (Winter 2012-13). Prof. Amarnick’s first article on The Duke’s Children, “Trollope at Fuller Length: Lord Silverbridge and the Manuscript of The Duke’s Children,” appeared in The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope’s Novels: New Readings for the Twenty-First Century (Ashgate, 2009). His dissertation, “Constructing the Moral Self: Trollope, Fellowship, and the Ends of Life” (Rutgers University, 1998), focuses especially on An Autobiography, The Warden, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Phineas Finn, and Phineas Redux. He was also curator of the exhibition “Anthony Trollope: The Art of Modesty,” at the Fales Collection, New York University (1998).