Kept in the Dark

Anthony Trollope was one of the great English writers of the famous Victorian era. Trollope was prolific and his books often centered around the important political, social, and gender issues of his time. Trollope wrote the classic Chronicles of Barsetshire novels as well as The Way We Live Now, a satirical novel that is often ranked as one of the finest in Victorian era literature. Kept in the Dark is a novel that tells the story of Cecilia Holt, a woman who ends her engagement to an indifferent man and then falls in love with another after traveling abroad.