Name: He Knew He Was Right
ISBN: 9780140433913

John Sutherland

Anthony Trollope

Rumor and jealousy cause Louis Trevelyan to mistakenly question his wife's loyalty, ultimately ruining his life and marriage.

He Knew He Was Right

Louis Trevelyan ... seems the most fortunate of mid-Victorian gentlemen: young, rich, well-educated, handsome, and with a beautiful wife. But his life is ruined by ungrounded jealousy. In the later [chapters], the unlucky hero has been utterly consumed by an obsession with his wife's imaginary infiedelity .... In the sub-plot dealing with the marriages of his English and American heroines, Trollope engages head-on the issue of women's rights, a ropic which was as alive for his contemporaries of the late 1860s as it is today.