Rachel and Her Lovers

The Landleaguers

by Anthony TROLLOPE (1815 - 1882)

Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land by the Catholic Landleaguers. The Irish Land War has commenced, with the boycotting of wealthy landowners and a brutal chain of revenge killings. This is the story of Florian, his father, his two beautiful sisters, his adult brother Frank, and Frank’s beloved Rachel, an American singer working the London stage with her firebrand father. It’s also the story of the social order coming apart and then painfully coming back together in one Irish county. The Landleaguers was Anthony Trollope’s last book and was not completed before he died in 1882, but proceeds far enough to be a touching and engrossing story and to leave the reader pretty certain of the outcome. - Summary by Angie

Listen next episodes of The Landleaguers:
Rachel Writes About Her Lovers , Ballytowngal , Black Daly , Boycotting , Brown's , Captain Clayton Comes to the Castle , Captain Clayton's First Triumph , Captain Clayton's Lovemaking , Captain Yorke Clayton , Chapter 49 and Postscript , Christmas Day 1880 , Cong , 'Don't Hate Him, Ada' , Edith's Eloquence , Fifth Avenue and Newport , Frank Jones Comes Back Again , Frank Jones Has Ceased to Exist , 'From the Full Heart, the Mouth Speaks' , How Funds Were Provided , Kerrycullion , Lax, the Murderer , Lord Castlewell , Lord Castlewell is Much Troubled , Lord Castlewell's Farewell , Lord Castlewell's Lovemaking , Morony Castle is Boycotted , Moytubber , Mr. Moss Is Finally Answered , Mr. O'Mahoney as Member of Parliament , Mr. O'Mahoney's Apology , Mr. Robert Morrise , Rachel is Free , Rachel Is Ill , Rachel Writes About Her Lovers , Rachel's Correspondence , The Galway Ball , The Galway Court House , The New Aristocracy Fails , The Road to Ballyglunin , The State of Ireland , Tom Daly is Boycotted , What Was Done With the Funds , What Was Not Done With the Funds