Orley Farm

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Orley Farm is a Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope that blends legal drama with social satire, centered on a disputed inheritance and a controversial will.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Victorian novel
novel
author Anthony Trollope
centralTheme controversial will
disputed inheritance
marriage and courtship
morality and guilt
the English legal system
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReception considered one of Trollope's more serious novels
praised for its courtroom scenes
firstPublicationDate 1861
firstPublisher The Cornhill Magazine
followedBy The Small House at Allington
genre legal drama
realist novel
social satire
hasAdaptation Orley Farm (1981 BBC radio adaptation)
hasIllustrationBy John Everett Millais
language English
laterPublishedAs two-volume book edition
literaryMovement realism
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
mainCharacter Felix Graham
Judge Staveley
Lady Mason
Lucius Mason
Madeline Stavely
Mr. Furnival
Mrs. Furnival
Sir Joseph Mason
narrativeStyle third-person omniscient
notableFor complex moral characterization of Lady Mason
detailed depiction of Victorian legal practice
originalMedium magazine serial
partOf Anthony Trollope bibliography
plotFocus lawsuit over the ownership of Orley Farm estate
precededBy Framley Parsonage
publicationFormat serialisation
settingCountry England
settingPeriod 19th century
subjectMatter family conflict
property law
social class in Victorian England

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Anthony Trollope
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