The English critic A. O. J. Cockshut wrote of Trollope's Ralph the Heir, " ... any reader who has previously subscribed to the stock idea of Trollope as a photographer and no artist, would be wise, if he wishes to be just, to consider these chapters carefully."
In Ralph the Heir, Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) again constructs a multilayered Victorian society of the kind he so precisely imagined in the Palliser novels, the Barsetshire...