Orley Farm (novel)

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Orley Farm is an 1862 legal and social novel by Anthony Trollope, centered on a disputed inheritance case and the moral complexities surrounding it.

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Orley Farm (novel) canonical 2
Orley Farm inheritance dispute 1

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instanceOf legal novel
novel
author Anthony Trollope
centralTheme disputed inheritance
family relationships
justice
legal ethics
moral ambiguity
social class
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
explores conflict between law and morality
conscience and guilt
social expectations in Victorian society
firstPublicationFormat serial publication
firstPublisher Chapman and Hall
genre fiction
legal fiction
social realism
hasCharacterRole Felix Graham is a barrister involved in the case
Lady Mason is a central figure in the inheritance dispute
linked to: Lady Mason

Sir Peregrine Orme is a landowner connected to Lady Mason
hasIllustrationsBy John Everett Millais
hasInfluenceOn reputation of Anthony Trollope as a serious novelist
hasLegalCaseType forgery allegation
property dispute
hasTargetAudience adult readers
isFollowedInCareerBy The Small House at Allington
isPrecededInCareerBy Framley Parsonage
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement Victorian literature
mainCharacter Felix Graham
Judge Staveley
Lady Mason
Lucius Mason
Madeline Stavely
Sir Peregrine Orme
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor detailed depiction of legal proceedings
psychological depth of characters
originalLanguage English
partOf Anthony Trollope bibliography
publicationYear 1862
setInPeriod 19th-century England
setting rural England
structure two volumes
timePeriodOfComposition mid-19th century

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Madeline Stavely partOf Orley Farm (novel)
Joseph Mason (the elder son) involvedIn Orley Farm inheritance dispute
linked to: Orley Farm (novel)