Nora's Letter

Marcus Stone

He Knew He was Right, by Anthony Trollope (facing p. 31)

Nora is shown replying to Hugh Stanbury's first love-letter to her. She tells him honestly, "I have been made so happy by your affectionate letter," and promises to be true to him, a promise she will keep (31). Ellen Moody points out that "Trollope's illustrators repeatedly depicted his characters hunched over their desks writing or bent over their letters reading them."

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References

Moody, Ellen. "Partly Told in Letters." Victorian Web. Web. 11 June 2010.

Trollope, Anthony. He Knew He was Right. Vol. 2. London: Strahan and Co. 1869. Available offsite here.

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