One of the first such marriages had been that of Lord Randolph Churchill to Jennie Jerome, five years before the book was written-a love match, as is that of Silverbridge and Isabel Boncassen. Marriages of rich American young women to British aristocrats had just begun to take place when Trollope wrote this book. However, by the end of the book, the Duke grows closer to all three of his children he allows the engagements of his oldest son and daughter, and he is invited once more to take a part in the government. To add to his troubles, Gerald, his younger son, gets expelled from Cambridge after attending the Derby without permission.
At first, the Duke disapproves and he disapproves even more of his daughter's suitor. She agrees to marry him only if the Duke is willing to welcome her into the family. In the meanwhile, however, Silverbridge becomes enamoured of American heiress Isabel Boncassen. She turns Silverbridge down, due to his immaturity, although with a hint of a more welcoming answer another time. At first, Lord Silverbridge follows the wishes of his father by entering Parliament, and proposes to Lady Mabel Grex, whom he has known all his life, and of whom the Duke approves. Managing the Duke's two sons also proves troublesome. Once she becomes aware of the seriousness of the relationship between Mary and Frank, Mrs Finn insists that the Duke be informed.
Mrs Finn, Lady Glencora's dearest confidante, somewhat uneasily remains after the funeral as a companion and unofficial chaperone for Lady Mary at the Duke's request. As the government in which he is Prime Minister has also fallen, the Duke is left bereft of both his beloved wife and his political position.īefore her death, Lady Glencora had given her private blessing to her daughter Mary's courtship by a poor gentleman, Frank Tregear, a friend of Mary's older brother, Lord Silverbridge. Lady Glencora, the wife of Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, dies unexpectedly, leaving the devastated Duke to deal with their grownup children, with whom he has had a somewhat distant relationship. In 2020, the original text of The Duke's Children was restored for publication of a new edition led by editor Steven Amarnick. It is the sixth and final novel of the Palliser series.
The Duke's Children is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in 1879 as a serial in All the Year Round.
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